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Malaysian seaport cooperation: current strategies and objectives
Nur Syafiqa Asyiqin Bt Ahmad Fadzil
Dr Jagan Jeevan
Bachelor of Management (Maritime)
School of Maritime Business and Management
Seaport can be defining as integrated platform integration as a base of production,
trade, logistics and information transfer. The seaport cooperation, such collaboration,
is a strategy which is adopted to improve competitiveness when players are facing
high level of competitive intensity. Seaports in Malaysia are either under the purview
of the Federal Government or the State Government and can be categorized into major
and minor ports. The Malaysian Seaport that involved in this study are Johor Port,
Kuantan Port, Penang Port and Port Klang. This paper discusses the idea of
cooperation between seaports in response to changing current strategies and
objectives that should be achieved which would be benefited the maritime sector in
Malaysia. The objective of this study is to identify how the port in Malaysia cooperate
and to evaluate the port’s benefit to the nation. In order to achieve the objectives,
exploratory factor analysis will be use to estimate the dimensionality of following
factors. Based on this research, we found out that the driving factor effect the seaport
cooperation are because of insufficient resources and inconsistent in global market
trend, while the elements of the type of seaport cooperation are consists of coadjuvancy
(mutual agreement), public private partnership and alliances.
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