Empirical Performance Measurement of Cargo Handling Equipment in Vietnam Container Terminals

Huy Tung Pham and Luong Hai Nguyen
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Huy Tung Pham: Department of Personnel & Administration, Vietnam Maritime University, Haiphong 180000, Vietnam
Luong Hai Nguyen: Department of Construction Economics, University of Transport and Communications, Hanoi 100000, Vietnam

Logistics, 2022, vol. 6, issue 3, 1-18

Abstract: Background : Cargo-handling equipment (CHE) plays a vital role in maintaining the efficiency of a highly-worked container terminal. Methods : This study is aimed to analyze the CHEs’ performance, which is conducted based on a contextual application of the overall equipment-effectiveness (OEE) technique and data collected from a field survey in 14 container terminals in Vietnam. Results : The findings reveal that the CHEs are operated incompatibly with their actual capacity due to low performance. Also, the findings clarified the unproductive exploitation of container terminals and low actual terminal throughput since the capacity-designed terminals are currently operating above their actual capacity. Conclusions : The application of the OEE index for groups of CHE equipment is an origin for the impact assessment of the overall performance between the groups of CHEs’ equipment, thereby proposing management tools for supporting the improvement of the CHEs and container terminals’ performance in Vietnam.

Keywords: cargo-handling equipment; container terminal; exploitation; overall equipment effectiveness; handling cycle time (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L8 L80 L81 L86 L87 L9 L90 L91 L92 L93 L98 L99 M1 M10 M11 M16 M19 R4 R40 R41 R49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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