Analysis of Ship Operation for a Container Terminal

This study is looking for delay factors of ship operation in a container terminal. Ship operation is a complex process that is affected by many factors, such as weather delays, vessel delays and stevedore delays. These factors will slow down the handling performance and increase the handling time and cost. Hence, secondary data is collected from Malaysian Port and analysis by SPSS. Correlation and pie chart are used to analysis and display the result. The initial result showed that the main cause of delay is stevedore delays (82.60%) and have high correlation with berth turnaround time (0.831). This study further analysis stevedore delays; the results showed that waiting for prime mover is the main delay factor, which contributed to about 41.2% that affected the performance of ship operation. It also has high correlation with berth turnaround time (0.716). Therefore, this study concluded that the stevedore delays and waiting for prime mover is the main cause of delay in ship operation in a container terminal.