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 Volume 7, Issue 3 (March 2020), Pages: 89-103

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 Original Research Paper

 Title: Measuring terminal efficiency: Case of fishing ports in Malaysia

 Author(s): Kasypi Mokhtar 1, *, Siti Marsila Mhd Ruslan 1, Wan Muhamad Amir W. Ahmad 2, Zailani Abdullah 3, Safiek Mokhlis 1, Koh Su May 1, Rudiah Md Hanafiah 1, Nur Eeda Ali 4, Mohd Azhafiz Abdullah 5

 Affiliation(s):

 1Faculty of Maritime Studies, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Terengganu, Malaysia
 2Dental Sciences Department, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kubang Kerian, Malaysia
 3Entrepreneurship and Business Department, Universiti Malaysia Kelantan, Pengkalan Chepa, Malaysia
 4Town and Regional Planning, Universiti Teknologi Mara, Selangor, Malaysia
 5Faculty of Marine Science and Environment, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Terengganu, Malaysia

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 * Corresponding Author. 

  Corresponding author's ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2807-0807

 Digital Object Identifier: 

 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2020.03.010

 Abstract:

This study aims to measure the efficiency of a fishing port terminal in utilizing their resources to achieve better productivity and better strategic decisions making by incorporating Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), using both BBC and CCR indexes for measuring the efficiency level. Based on the CCRI efficiency level of each terminal, four fishing terminals were located at an efficient frontier while another 55.56% of the fishing terminals are inefficient. For BCCI, 66.66% of the DMU is efficient. By looking at the efficiency, this study determines which specific terminals need to augment their inputs or outputs to achieve efficiency level. At the same time, this study is also looking onto other seaport terminals which have similar facilities in term of infrastructures and services like container terminal where both fishing terminal and container terminal have cranes, number of berth and storage capacity. 

 © 2020 The Authors. Published by IASE.

 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords: Fishing terminal, Efficiency, DEA

 Article History: Received 16 June 2019, Received in revised form 29 December 2019, Accepted 5 January 2020

 Acknowledgment:

No Acknowledgment.

 Funding:

This study is funded by the Fundamental Research Grant Scheme from the Ministry of Education Malaysia.

 Compliance with ethical standards

 Conflict of interest: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

 Citation:

 Mokhtar K, Ruslan SMM, and Ahmad WMAW et al. (2020). Measuring terminal efficiency: Case of fishing ports in Malaysia. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 7(3): 89-103

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