PORT DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE CARGO THROUGHPUT IN ZANZIBAR ISLAND USING MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION

• Main Author: Hamim Khamis, Abdalla
• Format: Theses
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/81404
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

Despite the overwhelming contribution of Malindi Port to the flow of goods/cargoes between Zanzibar and the rest of the world, there are several challenges surrounding the infrastructure of the port and the maritime sector as a whole. These challenges can be seen in terms of hard infrastructure such as single berth for docking ships as well as a small draft, as a consequence, the movement of containers is slow and underwhelming, estimated to be around 6 containers per hour when a rate of movement of at least 20 is needed to ensure effective operations. The process of unloading cargo is held back by the availability of little equipment such as dockside, cranes and container gantries because of space limitations. As a result, the port services cannot keep up with the queue of ships waiting to dock and unload their cargo. And for the soft infrastructures such as the inflow and outflow of goods are hampered by bureaucratic customs procedures and the limited use of e commerce facilities, for example there are about eight documents needed to import goods into Zanzibar and seven documents for exports whilst the neighbour port like Dar-es-Salaam requires just seven documents for imports and five for exports. Aside from the port challenges, the daily increase of Zanzibar population has also made demands for more port infrastructure improvement so as to meet the population demands. This research was driven by the critical needs to understand the port development strategies include improvement of Malindi port, construction of inland container deports ICDs, and investment on small scale ports, these three strategies is the results of an interview conducted between researcher and the head of planning division of Zanzibar port corporation. With the overachieving goals of improve cargo throughputs in Zanzibar Island, this study aimed to identify the relationship between these strategies and the goals of improving cargo throughputs. The study utilized a multiple linear regression method, the study integrated data through questionnaires survey from the respondents, the data of hundred and twenty-four number of respondents were collected and only hundred respondents used to process regression analysis. The respondents included both females and males with different positions, most of them are port planning officers, port IV operators, ships liners, clearing and forwarding agents, businessmen/women and some government officers who are directly or indirectly understand what is going on in the Zanzibar seaports. The finding revealed that, investment on a small scale-port has poor impact (coef. regression = 0.057) to the cargo throughputs and also statistically not significant (p ? value = 0.470 > ? = 0.05), hence removed and only two independent variables improvement of Malindi port and construction of inland container deports ICDs remain to the second model. The results for the second model show that the R value is high (i.e., R = 74.6%), indicating that the two independent variables (Improvement of Malindi port and construction of inland container deports ICDs) together are positively and rather strongly correlated with cargo throughputs. Among the two variables, the construction of Inland Container Deport ICDs has the strongest coefficient regression with cargo throughputs (= 0.917) and statistically significant (p ? value = 0.000). Again, improvement of Malindi port variable has negative coefficient (?0.165) with cargo throughputs but statistically significant with p-value 0.04, this is because Malindi port is inside of Stone Town of Zanzibar which is a remarkable UNESCO world heritage site, this means that Malindi port can no longer expanded father more and therefore the new Mangapwani multipurpose port will replace Malindi port in the near future. Basing on the results, the stakeholders of the ports especially Zanzibar port corporation need to pay attention and focus more on constructions of standard high capacity of Inland Container Deports ICDs and find a better place to replace Malindi port so as to meet its demands.