Abstract
As the development of refrigerated container, transportation of aquatic products is growing rapidly in recent years. It is very important to avoid cargos damages for aquatic products of refrigerated containers, while the shipping operators are running this scope of business. Hence, the risk issue of adopting various improvement strategies would be important for the container shipping operators. In the light of this, the main purpose of this paper is to analyze the risks of cargos damages for aquatic products of refrigerated containers based on the container shipping operators’ perspective in Taiwan. We use four risk assessment procedures - risk identification, risk analysis and evaluation, risk strategies, and risk treatment - as the research method in this paper. The risk factors are generated from literature review and experts interviewing. Then, three dimensions with nineteen risk factors are preliminary identified. We used these risk factors to proceed with the empirical study via questionnaires. Three points of empirical results are presented. At first, the top factor of perceived risk as well as of risk severity is ‘container data setting errors.’ Secondly, the top factor of risk frequency is ‘lack of the goods’ pre-cooling themselves.’ Thirdly, three risk factors are classified into the low-risk area, whereas sixteen risk factors are placed on the medium-risk area. There is no risk factor fix on the high-risk area. Furthermore, three risk strategies - risk prevention, risk reduction, and risk transfer - are suggested to adopt by different risk factors.
Highlights
The improving of living standard and the rapidly increasing demand toward fresh ingredients around the world has led the gradual rise of refrigerated container transport in Taiwan
It is very important to avoid cargos damages for aquatic products of refrigerated containers, while the shipping operators are running this scope of business
This dimension includes six risk factors, that is, ‘the risk of improper pre-cooling containers (B1),’ ‘the temperature risk caused by generator failure in the towing process (B2),’ ‘the risk of unfound abnormal operation of equipment or cabinet damage due to the undone freezer inspection in advance (B3),’ ‘the cargo damage risk caused by container temperature loss due to the failure of wharf power supply system (B4),’ ‘the risk of normal temperature maintenance due to defrost system failure resulting in excessive frost (B5),’ and ‘the cargo damage risk due to power supply system failure on board resulting in temperature loss (B6),’ respectively
Summary
Frozen cargos are divided into three types in accordance with the temperature of cool, cold (0 °C and above), and frozen (0 °C and below), respectively. The cargos of frozen goods are mainly frozen aquatic products and frozen poultry meat. According to the 2010 statistics data provided by Council of Agriculture (COA) in Taiwan, Taiwan’s aquatic products export worth about 1.22 billion U.S dollars, accounting for 35.6% of the all-agricultural exports that ranked the highest. The main types of export aquatic products are fish (mainly tuna, eel, skipjack and tilapia of more than 70 % of the total), molluscs/mollusks, crustaceans, and other aquatic products with major exporting countries of Japan, Thailand and United States; followed by livestock products of export value of approximately 12.0 billion U.S dollars with accounting for about 35% of the total. Taiwan is the country with very high aquaculture technology development and with high quality of seafood, which has very strong competitiveness on the export
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