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Driving factors and forms of seaport cooperation: the feasibility study
in Carey Island.
Nor Shafikah Binti Rosdi
Dr. Jagan Jeevan
Bachelor of Management (Maritime)
School of Maritime Business and Management
Seaport development is significant to the national economy growth. Due to the trend
of increasing total container throughput in Malaysia seaport, it will depict the level of
readiness Port Klang to accommodate the capacities of container in future. The
purpose of this research is to analyze the driven factor influencing the cooperation
and to identify the forms of cooperation due the development of new seaports.
Malaysian government has planning to develop new seaport located at Carey Island
Port Klang with India government. Without any cooperation, the development of port
not able to sustains their business. Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) has employed to
analyze the dimensionality of following factors. The outcome shows the main factors
that contribute in this research which are seaport infrastructure, information sharing
in transport network and risk management while the forms of cooperation consists
seaport and inland transport network, hub port cooperation, public private partnership
(PPP) and reciprocal agreement. Furthermore, this research important to assist the
government to develop new seaport.
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