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Environment impact due to port expansion
Siti Aishah Binti Muhamod
En. Sharifuddin bin Ahmad
Bachelor of Management (Maritime)
School of Maritime Business and Management
With a growth of shipping years by years leads to the expansion of port in Malaysia.
Kuantan Port Consortium (KPC) is the example of port that expands in the operation to
cater for large ships up to 200,000 DWT from the current capacity. Kuantan Port is
strategically situated at Tanjung Gelang, in the state of Pahang overlooking the major
sea lanes through the South China Sea. The study was conducted at Kuantan Port
Consortium (KPC). The perception of the public on the effect of expansion of KPC will be
based in term of economic, environment and social on population. The objective of this
study are to study the effects on economic due the expansion of Kuantan Port Consortium
(KPC). Second objective is to identify the public perception on the effects of expansion of
Kuantan Port Consortium (KPC) due to the economic. Last objective to identify whether
the expansion of Kuantan Port Consortium (KPC) lead to the positive or negative effect
in term of economic according to public perception. By using the questionnaire, a total of
200 respondents around KPC were chosen as sample, through primary data method. The
study procedures data in the form of quantitative description statistics (frequencies and
percentages) using SPSS (Statistic Program for Social Science) for analysing the study of
questionnaire that were distributed to 200 respondents around KPC. The research
hypothesis of the expansion of KPC has a positive impact in term of economic. The results
of the analysis show that the nullification hypothesis is accepted due to the expansion of
KPC that give positive effect in term of economic.
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