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A Case Study of Air Pollution from Ships in East Coast region in
Peninsular Malaysia (Kelantan, Terengganu and Pahang).
Dineshvaran Maran
Hajjah Zahaitun Mahani Binti Zakariah
Bachelor of Management (Maritime)
School of Maritime Business and Management
As a growing maritime nation, Malaysia has developed many seaports to cater the
growing demand of maritime transportation in the worldwide trade nowadays.
Next, shipping industry become one of the fastest-growing sources of greenhouse
gas emissions where it significantly lead to the air quality problems in the seaport
area. Besides that, this research was conducted to study the management and
effects of air pollution from vessels where the research scope is the major seaports
that located in East Coast region in Peninsular Malaysia. Moreover, this is a
qualitative research where the data needed was collected by conducting an
interview session with selected respondents from those seaports and important
data collected is analyzed using software to have the findings. Based on this study,
the outcomes shows that major seaports in East Coast region in Peninsular
Malaysia are carefully managing the air pollution from vessels in the respective
port area by complying with the regulations, conducting specific inspection to each
of the vessel that berthing and implementing specific pollution management
system. As for recommendation, proper management system should be
implemented by those respective port authorities and ship owners especially in
term of legal, technology, operational and marketing.
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