Service Quality of Container Terminals

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Service Quality of Container Terminals The main focus of this paper is based on the satisfaction level of the container terminal main users. The main users of the container terminal are the shipping agent, forwarding agent, haulers, and others. The purpose is to identify important attributes of container terminal service quality towards customer satisfaction that could be used as an early warning system for container terminal operators. Some of the concerns include variable timeliness, information quality, order condition and order accuracy. For the overall satisfaction level, the main focus of the users is the personnel contact quality. How are the personnel trying to resolve these problems encountered by the users? The knowledge and experience of the personnel are the factors which influence the satisfaction level of the users. A container terminal’s purpose is an important and fundamental part of the overall pattern of trade and transport. In today’s modern era container terminals are so much more than just safe places to load and unload ships. The more modern container terminal is a transport community where many different various firms and operators store, pack, process and assemble which often enhancing and quality testing goods on the container terminal area. Basic container terminals are inter-modal transport hubs, exchanging goods between road, rail, sea waterways, and air providing a wide range of distribution and logistics services. By many standards a container terminal is a very complex operation and developments in the world trade are if anything making container terminals even more sophisticated than what they currently are. Now container terminals are faced with some strong challengers, not at least those posted by the new technology, customer demands for lower cost, quality services and most of all customer satisfaction. The current container
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