Abstract
The role of container logistics centre as home bases for merchandise transportation has become increasingly important. The container carriers need to select a suitable centre location of transshipment port to meet the requirements of container shipping logistics. In the light of this, the main purpose of this paper is to develop a fuzzy multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) model to evaluate the best selection of transshipment ports for container carriers. At first, some concepts and methods used to develop the proposed model are briefly introduced. The performance values of quantitative and qualitative subcriteria are discussed to evaluate the fuzzy ratings. Then, the ideal and anti-ideal concepts and the modified distance measure method are used in the proposed model. Finally, a step-by-step example is illustrated to study the computational process of the quantitative and qualitative fuzzy MCDM model. The proposed approach has successfully accomplished our goal. In addition, the proposed fuzzy MCDM model can be empirically employed to select the best location of transshipment port for container carriers in the future study.
Highlights
Shipping and port are two major aspects in the sea transport
The main purpose of this paper is to develop a quantitative and qualitative fuzzy multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) method to evaluate the problem of location selection of transshipment port for the container carriers
The container carriers need to select a suitable centre location of transshipment port to meet the requirements of container shipping logistics
Summary
Shipping and port are two major aspects in the sea transport. The issues of shipping and port logistics distribution centres are discussed in the academic literature [1,2,3,4,5,6,7] for years. The governments of Far Eastern countries actively pushed their container ports to become a transshipment centre They engaged in improving computer hardware and software, inland transport systems, and the customs clearance operation and reducing the container handling charges in order to attract more carriers to call their ports as well as to obtain more transshipment quantity of containers to enlarge their port capacity. Due to the importance of container logistics centres as home bases for merchandise transport, the container carriers need to select a suitable location of a transshipment port to meet the customers’ requirements. The main purpose of this paper is to develop a quantitative and qualitative fuzzy MCDM method to evaluate the problem of location selection of transshipment port for the container carriers.
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