Application of Fuzzy AHP Method

Application of Fuzzy AHP Method for Port Performance Evaluation

Mansoor Kiani Moghadam

Chabahar Maritime University

Alireza Moazzen Jahromi

 Hosein Karimian

Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology

Abstract

The Evaluation and decision-making for multiple attribute problems are the most challenging concerns that human being had been involved in for many years. Many different criteria used for evaluation and decision-making, usually make the evaluators and decision-makers to solve the problems in a more scientific and accurate environment. Ports as the vital organizations in the supply chain management and transport infrastructures require intensive evaluations of data to measure their performance which are dependent upon different influencing factors and criteria. In this concept, they need scientific methods for performance evaluation. In this study, three ports namely Bousher, Chabahar and Shahid Rajaei (Bandar Abbas) in Iran have been selected for evaluation. Finally, the relative weights 0.5605, 0.2765 and 0.1630 are respectively obtained for ports of Shahid Rajaei (Bandar Abbas), Boushehr and Chabahar by Fuzzy AHP method which indicated that the ports of Shahid Rajaei (Bandar Abbas), Boushehr and Chabahar have had the highest performance shares respectively.

Keywords: Port Performance Evaluation – Fuzzy A