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  • 标题:Evaluation of Performances of Intermodal Import-Export Freight Transport System in Ethiopia
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  • 作者:Tadesse Kenea Amentae , Girma Gebresenbet
  • 期刊名称:Journal of Service Science and Management
  • 印刷版ISSN:1940-9893
  • 电子版ISSN:1940-9907
  • 出版年度:2015
  • 卷号:08
  • 期号:01
  • 页码:57-70
  • DOI:10.4236/jssm.2015.81007
  • 语种:English
  • 出版社:Scientific Research Publishing
  • 摘要:Freight transport system that minimizes costs, increase conveniences, and environmentally safe has become the agenda worldwide since long before. This study was made with the main objective of assessing intermodal termed as “multimodal” freight transport service in Ethiopia. Data was collected by using structured questionnaire from randomly selected customers and multimodal freight transport section employees of Ethiopian Shipping and Logistics Service Enterprise. The study was made in two stages using customers: first, they were asked to evaluate their satisfaction with the multimodal freight transport system; second, to evaluate their comparative satisfaction with the segmented/“uni-modal” freight transport system against five major freight transport performance indicators. Customers were also asked to identify and rank top ten problems of freight transport logistics in Ethiopia. Data were analyzed using SPSS and excel sheets with descriptive statistics and the results were depicted using charts and tables. The study indicated that majority of customers were either dissatisfied or very dissatisfied with many of the performance indicators. The employees evaluated their organization as well performing relatively on more performance indicators. Both customers and employees evaluated the documentation performances as satisfying but cost and convenience as dissatisfying performances. Customers identified repetitive custom checking and waste of time in custom inspections process as the most severe problem in freight transport logistics in Ethiopia. The implementation of intermodal freight transport system to bring better change in import-export freight transport logistics of Ethiopia was in bitter challenge for customers due to a number of problems, except documentation performance that showed betterment.
  • 关键词:Freight Transport; Performance; Multi-Modal; Uni-Modal; Customers’ Satisfaction; Employees’ Evaluation; Ethiopia
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