Evaluating determinants of attractiveness and their cause-effect relationships for container ports in Taiwan: users’ perspectives

Ding, Ji-Feng; Kuo, Jung-Fong; Shyu, Wen-Hwa; Chou, Chien-Chang

doi:10.1080/03088839.2018.1562245

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“…Step 3: Calculation the Total Relation Matrix (TRM) T , which may be illustrated as ( T = [ t ij ] C×C ) through Equation (10) ( Ding et al, 2019 ). T represents the influential relationship among all listed challenges.…”

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Challenges to COVID-19 vaccine supply chain: Implications for sustainable development goals

Alam¹,

Ahmed

Ali

et al. 2021

International Journal of Production Economics

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The COVID-19 outbreak has demonstrated the diverse challenges that supply chains face to significant disruptions. Vaccine supply chains are no exception. Therefore, it is elemental that challenges to the COVID-19 vaccine supply chain (VSC) are identified and prioritized to pave the way out of this pandemic. This study combines the decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL) method with intuitionistic fuzzy sets (IFS) to explore the key challenges of the COVID-19 VSC. The IFS theory tackles the uncertainty of key challenges while DEMATEL addresses the interlaced causal relationships among crucial challenges to the COVID-19 VSC. This work identifies 15 challenges and reveals that ‘Limited number of vaccine manufacturing companies’, ‘Inappropriate coordination with local organizations’, ‘Lack of vaccine monitoring bodies’, ‘Difficulties in monitoring and controlling vaccine temperature’, and ‘Vaccination cost and lack of financial support for vaccine purchase’ are the most critical challenges. The causal interactions along with mutual relationships among these challenges are also scrutinized, and implications for sustainable development goals (SDGs) are drawn. The results offer practical guidelines for stakeholders and government policy makers around the world to develop an improved VSC for the COVID-19 virus.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Challenges to COVID-19 vaccine supply chain: Implications for sustainable development goals

Alam¹,

Ahmed

Ali

et al. 2021

International Journal of Production Economics

167

117

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“…With global regulations regarding environmental issues in maritime transport being developed and enacted, for example the MARPOL regulations (Zhang, 2016) and the Kyoto Protocol (Bodansky, 2016), ports are facing greater pressures to comply with regulatory and societal requirements for operational sustainability. Ports have had to take progressive action in this area because it has become a paramount consideration when shipping companies are determining which port to use (Thai, 2016;Parola et al, 2017;Ding et al, 2019). A port which is operating at a high level of sustainability is more likely to attract support from the government, communities and the public, as well as potential investors in the maritime industry (UNCTAD, 2015).…”

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Port sustainability and performance: A systematic literature review

Lim

Pettit

Abouarghoub

et al. 2019

Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment

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Motivated by a lack of research on port sustainability performance and assessment, this paper uses a systematic literature review to identify trends, measurement methods, and mechanisms for the implementation of strategy and policy in this area. The paper provides a comprehensive and critical evaluation of port operational sustainability, focusing on ascertaining the impact of its implementation. The study analysed and synthesised established characteristics in the current literature regarding the performance of port sustainability and its evaluation in terms of operations and management. Successful performance measurement in port sustainability is driven by the dependence on establishing accurate indicators as the basis for measurement. Our clustering of analytical sustainability indicators reveals that environmental research is focused on pollution, social research is mainly focused on human resource management, while economic research is mainly on port management and borderline investment. Findings are discussed in four key areas of port sustainability performance and assessment: existing trends, implementation of measures, mechanisms for implementation, and assessment gaps and challenges. For existing trends, attempts to evaluate the applicability and practicality of green operations have improved the awareness and promotion of governmental green policies. Implementation measures relate to the utilisation of techniques that reveal optimal practices for practical sustainable operations while mechanisms largely relate to establishing indicators which increase understanding of performance. Finally, challenges in this field include achieving consistency among ports in how sustainability is measured. Future research should incentivise improvements in port operational practice and encourage self-examination in order to reprioritise activity.

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“…However, ports in Japan and Taiwan can improve connectivity through several policies. Some previous studies show that developing the international and domestic maritime shipping network of seaports in Taiwan and Japan plays an essential role in the national and local economies because these countries are pivotal points for shipping routes crossing the Pacific Ocean (Ding et al, 2019;Hu et al, 2020). Therefore, port operators and managers of these countries may implement the following strategies to enhance connectivity as well as the competitiveness.…”

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Analyzing the international connectivity of the major container ports in Northeast Asia

Nguyen

Kim

2022

MABR

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PurposeThis study aims to identify the characteristics of the maritime shipping network in Northeast Asia as well as compare the level of port connectivity among these container ports in the region. In addition, this study analyses the change in role and position of 20 ports in the region by clustering these ports based on connectivity index and container throughput and route index.Design/methodology/approachThis study employs Social Network Analysis (SNA) to delineate the international connectivity of major container ports in Northeast Asia. Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) is used to identify each port's connectivity index and container throughput index, and the resulting indexes are employed as the basis to cluster 20 major ports by fuzzy C-mean (FCM).FindingsThe results revealed that Northeast Asia is a highly connected maritime shipping network with the domination of Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Busan. Furthermore, both container throughput and connectivity in almost all container ports in the region have decreased significantly due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The rapid growth of Shenzhen and Ningbo has allowed them to join Cluster 1 with Shanghai while maintaining high connectivity, yet decreasing container throughput has pushed Busan down to Cluster 2.Originality/valueThe originality of this study is to combine indexes of SNA into connectivity index reflecting characteristics of the maritime shipping network in Northeast Asia and categorize 20 major ports by FCM.

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Evaluating determinants of attractiveness and their cause-effect relationships for container ports in Taiwan: users’ perspectives

Cited by 22 publications

References 42 publications

Challenges to COVID-19 vaccine supply chain: Implications for sustainable development goals

Challenges to COVID-19 vaccine supply chain: Implications for sustainable development goals

Port sustainability and performance: A systematic literature review

Analyzing the international connectivity of the major container ports in Northeast Asia

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