DIDGAH
Year:2008 | Volume:- | Issue:-|Papers Count:5

Port equipment should be designed and selected in a manner to best meet maritime transport customers requirements for loading and discharging of cargo. Hence, evaluation and selection of the proper equipment are of great importance due to their direct involvment in port operation.It is necessary to use a mathematical model enable to use in support systems for making decisions that help managers in evaluation and selection of equipment.Hierachic analysis process is one of the most applicable methods in analysis of complicated issues in decision-making.In this research, a model is designed to help decision makers and evaluators of port equipment vendors in selecting the best equipment using the hierarchic analysis method.

The present paper concerns quantitative assessment and measurement of throughput of the Shahid Rajaee Container Terminal. It is developed in particular for Shahid Rajaee port as its container operation accounts for 90% of the whole container-related operation in the country.Efficiency index of the above mentioned container terminal was determined using AHP technique so that the overall terminal efficiency could be identified by determining the gravity (importance coefficient) of each parameter affecting the terminal throughput.

Globalization is not a choice but a necessity and is not an accidental incidence but an essential and substantial reality. Just as other human or social essential phenomenon results from human or social identity, globalization as a substantial event results from human intellectual identity and social identity structure. Perhaps this claim would be true that globalization is nothing but permanent intensification of appearance of intellectuality and continuous gradual prevalence of human monistic thinking. Therefore, perhaps it would be rational that we say resistance to globalization is neither reasonable nor realistic. An approach could be useful if instead of resisting to globalization it tries to know the exact factors and backgrounds of globalization and with energetic sharing and with supporting and equipping provident reason in this process it not only tries to sound and illuminate the future but also to make use of its countless utility with acquiring empirical knowledge.

The main objective of this research is to study the basic grounds in maritime industry including standards, laws and regulations, players, safety management system and usage of developed countries experiences for improvement of safety. These are classified in the following sections: First, the evolution trend of international laws and conventions, then the players and their interactions in safety issue, safety control structure, organizations that set the regulations are analyzed. In the next section, the experience of developed countries is discussed. In addition to studying the safety management systems, national strategic goals and approaches to safety management as examples for experiences of Canada, Australia and Newsland are examined. The final section of this article deals with the results of this study. In this section, while naming safety requirements and comparing the status of maritime safety in IR Iran with requirements of safety management system, the safety management systems which are based on TQM as a solution to safety improvement in this industry are studied. At last, a logical model for safety program is examined. The given model includes parts for compliance enforcement, education and awareness, program management and regulatory framework. These activity areas, which mirror marine safety's performance measurement framework, help facilitate the setting of goals and objectives for easy monitoring and measurement against clearly defined performance indicators. They also promote consistency in planning throughout the program.

One of the basic stages in strategic planning is the prioritization of strategies. In this area, many researches have been made and a lot of methodologies have been presented. Although these methods try to improve the analysis situation, they lose some useful information during the decision making process.In this article, the fuzzy analytic hierarchy process method is used for determining the importance of each strategy and sorting them. This approach is useful for saving some information which obtained from real situation. Also by using this flexible approach, decision makers are able to focus simultaneously just on two options, instead of many options. This approach is used for analyzing the traning center. For description about this approach, a numerical example is also presented.