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The Classification of Seaport-Hinterland at Johor Port and Port of Tanjung
Pelepas
Nurul Ardilla Binti Anang Othman
Dr. Jagan Jeevan
Bachelor of Management (Maritime)
School of Maritime Business and Management
Hinterland are the areas or lands located at the back of the ports play important role
to support and delivering export cargo to the port and distributing and also attracting
the import cargoes from the seaport. In Malaysia, there are two major seaports in
southern region peninsular Malaysia which are Johor Port and Port of Tanjung Pelepas
(PTP). These two major seaports are closely located with each other. This show that
the probability of these seaports to cater with the same client is very high and may
cause overlapping on hinterland area. It will cause waste of resources, conjunction in
traffic and reducing the competitiveness of seaports. The objective of this study is to
clearly identify the importance of hinterland in Southern Region Peninsular Malaysia
and to identify the categories use to classify hinterland territory in freight network. In
order to achieve these objectives, exploratory factor analysis (EFA) will be adapted to
evaluate the dimensionality of following factors. The outcome of this research that
indicates to the importance of hinterland in southern region peninsular Malaysia is
availability of hinterland, prices of hinterland and management of hinterland, while the
element to classify the type of hinterland is short-range hinterland, mid-range
hinterland and far hinterland. This study is important to educate the seaport user as
well as operator the respective hinterland in order to improve the client satisfactions.
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