Core risk factors influencing safe handling operations for container terminals at Kaohsiung port

Abstract

Safe handling operations for container terminals significantly determine whether cargos can be successfully delivered. However, the container terminals involve frequent container operations with heavy machinery and accidents occur quite often, causing financial losses, injuries and even deaths. Since various handling operations cannot guarantee absolute safety as well as many of these operations have substantial risks that can cause losses, we find safe handling operations a topic worthy of in-depth investigation. This study analyzed risk factors influencing safe handling operation problems with complicated cause-effect relationships and their correlations; hence, the main purpose of this article was to apply the Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory method to evaluate the core risk factors of the container handling operations at Kaohsiung port in Taiwan. This article first sorted out five major risk aspects with 17 risk factors through interviews with other scholars and direct investigation at Kaohsiung port. Then, based on the questionnaire surveys, we used the Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory method to analyze the cause-effect relationships of each risk factor. To clearly explain the relationship between each risk factor shown in the cause-effect diagram, the Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory results finally showed four quadrants and their corresponding risk factors. To achieve our research purpose, the seven core risk factors in the first quadrant are identified,

Risk Management Framework for Handling and Storage of Cargo at Major Ports in Malaysia towards Port Sustainability

“…Previous studies have developed and highlighted different risk assessment models by utilizing many risk assessment techniques to solve specific problems pertaining to the risk of handling cargo at terminal operations [5,[9][10][11][12][13][14][15]. However, no common risk assessment framework can be implemented for all types of risks.…”

“…A total of 191 completed questionnaires were collected out of the 300 questionnaires distributed. The same method was applied by Yang et al [12] and Shang and Tseng [9].…”

Use of a Hybrid McDm Method to Evaluate Key Solutions Influencing Service Quality at a Port Logistics Center in Taiwan

“…In the maritime transport chain, ports are transshipment intermediaries between land and sea transport, and are also nodal points of cargo consolidation in the international trade Jiun-Yan Tsai, Ji-Feng Ding, Use of a hybrid MCDM method to evaluate key solutions Gin-Shuh Liang, Kung-Don Ye influencing service quality at a port logistics center in Taiwan 90 and the logistics system [2]. During the 1990s, Taiwan's Kaohsiung port made active efforts to boost added service value in the maritime transport market [3,4], and also use more effective operating methods to ship international cargo to all parts of the globe.…”

“…Because there may be certain correlations or relationships [16] among criteria influencing service quality (the question of what), and also among solutions for boosting service quality (the question of how) (implying that these criteria are not necessarily mutually independent [17], but are instead interdependent and have a feedback relationship [1,2,9,10]), assessment of the weights and performance values can be best performed employing the multiple criteria decision-making (MCDM) method [18][19][20][21]. This study consequently seeks to clarify the causal relationship between factors/solutions through an in-depth investigation and Use of a hybrid MCDM method to evaluate key solutions Jiun-Yan Tsai, Ji-Feng Ding, influencing service quality at a port logistics center in Taiwan [24][25][26] as a means of implementing scientific and human affairs programs between 1972 and 1976.…”

“…During the 1990s, Taiwan's Kaohsiung port made active efforts to boost added service value in the maritime transport market [3,4], and also use more effective operating methods to ship international cargo to all parts of the globe. As a result, by providing efficient logistics services platforms [5] and an effective marine terminal [6], Kaohsiung port was one of the most important maritime transport logistics centers in the Asia-Pacific region for a period of time [1,2,7], and was the world's third largest container port in 1999. However, Taiwan currently faces severe competition from the cargo logistics markets of China, Northeast Asia, and Southeast Asia, and the surging cargo volume and geographical locations of ports in these regions are making them an ever-greater threat to Taiwan's ports.…”