Productivity Analysis of Black Sea Container Ports by Using Integrated Entropy and EATWOS Methods

Abstract

The Black Sea region is an extremely important region for global trade. Approaches such as short sea shipping and marine highways, which are on the agenda of European Union lead to increase the importance of Black Sea container ports by day by. Thus, performance of seaports of the region will be important factors, which can affect to their development and improvement that will be happened. Because effectivity of seaports may be effected by many factors, it is needed to use the MCDM methodologies can provide a systematic and structural solution way for evaluation. In this study, a hybrid model, which integrated the entropy and EATWOS methods is proposed to make productivity analysis of Black sea container ports. İt is expected that obtained results from this study may have a usable characteristic by investors and public authorities in addition to actors, that placed in the logistics processes.

Keywords

• Entropy method,EATWOS Method,Black Sea Con-tainer Ports,Productivity Analysis

Entegre Entropi ve Eatwos Yöntemleri Kullanılarak Karadeniz Konteyner Limanlarının Verimlilik Analizi

Abstract

Karadeniz Bölgesi küresel ticaret için son derece önemli bir bölgedir. Kısa mesafe deniz taşımacılığı ile deniz otobanları yaklaşımlarının Avrupa Birliğinin gündeminde olması Karadeniz limanlarının önemini her geçen gün artırmaktadır. Dolayısıyla Karadeniz limanlarının performansları yakın gelecekte gösterecekleri gelişme ve ilerlemelere büyük ölçüde etki edebilecek faktörler olabilecektir. Limanların etkinlik ve verimlilikleri çok sayıda değişken ve faktör tarafından etkilendiği için sistematik ve yapısal bir çerçeve olarak kullanılabilecek çok kriterli karar verme yöntemlerinin kullanılması gerekmektedir. Bu çalışmada entropi ve EATWOS yöntemleri entegre edilerek oluşturulan bir hibrid model Karadeniz limanlarının etkinlik ve verimlilik analizi için kullanılması önerilmektedir. Bu yöntem sayesinde elde edilecek çıktıların lojistik süreçlerde yer alan aktörlerin dışında yatırımcılar ve kamu otoriteleri tarafından da kullanılabilir bir nitelik taşıyacağı öngörülmektedir.

Keywords

• Entropi Yöntemi,EATWOS Yöntemi,Karadeniz Konteyner Limanları,Verimlilik Analizi

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