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Current Status, Challenges, and Sustainability Development of Malaysia
Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Industry towards Strategic Plan 2020
Goh May Fayy
Dr. Nurul Haqimin Bin Mohd Salleh
Bachelor of Management (Maritime)
School of Maritime Business and Management
Malaysian Shipbuilding and Ship Repair industry (SBSR) Strategic Plan 2020 is the first
nation plan including seven strategies and 40 initiatives involving the quality of product,
human capital, technologies, financial and policy aspects. This strategic plan is the first
cooperation between government and industry planned strategically deal with Malaysian
SBSR issues. The current problem facing by Malaysian SBSR is an implementation of
this strategic plan and the challenges on global competition especially SMEs and
changes from traditional way in Malaysian SBSR and component manufacturing
activities into modern technology equipment and method to produce the higher value
added products. The objective of this research is to identify the current status of
Malaysian SBSR towards Strategic Plan 2020 and determine the challenges facing by
the industry players. This research also develops the sustainability framework to
recovery the Malaysian SBSR towards strategic plan 2020. In order to achieve this
research objectives, two methods are used which are the Analysis Hierarchy Process
(AHP) and Evidential Reasoning (ER). The data and judgments are collected from
experts which are from Malaysian Shipyard and Government agencies. Based on the
test case, the results shown the active financial and incentive packages and inward
investment is the highest priorities in current status of Malaysian SBSR towards Strategic
Plan 2020. The result also shown that improper coordination among government and
industry in SBSR is the most important challenges of Malaysian SBSR. Proper training
on worker's performance is the most important plan in developing sustainability
framework of Malaysian SBSR towards Strategic Plan 2020. This research is expected
to provide the information in more detail about the current status, challenges, and
sustainability framework of Malaysian SBSR towards strategic plan 2020. Moreover, this
research also able to assist the Malaysian SBSR to be the resilient and continuously
enhance their competitiveness.
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