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The Impact of Container Vessel Enlargement to Seaport Competitiveness
Diana Anuar
Dr. Jagan Jeevan
Bachelor of Management (Maritime)
School of Maritime Business and Management
Since 1956 containerships able to carry around 500-800TEUs. Nowadays Ultra Large
Container Ship (ULCS) able to handle more than 21,000TEUs. Large vessels benefited
the customers from the perspectives economies of scale at sea, but terminal operators
and seaport authorities are pushed into potential diseconomies of scale because they
have to make significant investments such as equipment and nautical accessibility. To
react with the current situation, this search is carried out to study about the relationship
between container vessel size with seaport competitiveness rather than shipping alliance
formation as main subject. The objective of this study is to identify contributing factor
for container ship size enlargement and to identify the impact enlargement on seaport
competitiveness. Self-administrated and online survey have been conducted at 3
mainseaports including Port Klang Authority, West Port and Port of Tanjung Pelepas.
This research employs Exploratory Factors Analysis to achieve the main objective. The
outcomes hows that the validity and reliability of EFA generate 20 items and create 5
factors for part one. While part two,19 items is accepted by forming 6 factors.
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