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A Proposed Model of Hybrid Environmental Impact Assessment (Heia) For
Assessing Future Port Expansion on Carey Island, Malaysia
Nur Shahida Mohamad Jamal
Dr Nurul Haqimin Mohd Salleh
Bachelor of Management (Maritime)
School of Maritime Business and Management
Port Klang is one of the major port in Malaysia which currently ranked as top 12 global
container ports. Statistically, the container throughput handled by the Port Klang has
increased steadily from about 5 million TEUs in 2005 to 12 million TEUs in 2017. As a
result, the Port Klang Authority (PKA) has planned that port expansion is necessary to
cater the future demand which currently growing. As a result, Carey Island which closed
to the Westport, is potentially as the future project area for this port expansion. The
development of Carey Island as potential area as port expansion is capable to
accommodate larger vessels and handle the increasing container volume in the future.
However, the port expansion at Carey Island will potentially affects the hinterland
environment such as potential pollutions, heritages, health and living of local people,
etc. Traditionally, the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) will be conducted before,
during and after the project has been developed. However, the weakness of the EIA is
that it can be judged based on human judgement which lead to uncertainties and fuzzy
decisions. Therefore, a hybrid model combining traditional EIA, Analytic Hierarchy
Process (AHP) and Evidential Reasoning (ER) is proposed in this paper. As a result,
uncertainties in the assessment can be further treated with a proper technique. Based
on the initial test, the result has shown that physical impact (i.e. water pollution, air
pollution and solid waste) is the most prone to occur due to this port expansion. This
paper is expected to assist government agencies, port developers, port decision-makers
to assess the potential environmental impact from future project.
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