AN APPLICATION OF FUZZY ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS TO OVERCAPACITY ABSORBING METHODS IN CONTAINER SHIPPING
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MARITIME ENGINEERING, cilt.162, ss.331-344, 2020 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 162
- Basım Tarihi: 2020
- Doi Numarası: 10.3940/rina.ijme.2020.a4.617
- Dergi Adı: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MARITIME ENGINEERING
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, Applied Science & Technology Source, Compendex
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.331-344
- İstanbul Üniversitesi-Cerrahpaşa Adresli: Evet
Özet
The market in container shipping has been characterised as highly cyclical. In a depressed stage of the cycle, with a sharp decrease in demand, the gap between supply and demand widens significantly leading to a deepening overcapacity in the sector. In order to reduce overcapacity in the container shipping sector specific actions have been undertaken by such shipping operators. This paper describes a study which modelled certain selection criteria applied to overcapacity absorbing methods for containership companies. The relative ranking of each criterion was determined through a fuzzyAHP method. In order to conduct the method, five main and twenty seven sub-criteria were determined. The results of this approach showed that during the times of a collapsed market the most preferred type of overcapacity absorbing method is to lay-up vessels, followed by adopting slow-steaming and thirdly, scrapping. Newbuilding contract cancellation/postponement and service suspension were found to have the least effect.