TITLE:
The Hub Status and Transportation Network of Kribi Port
AUTHORS:
Che Kingsleychenikwi, Xuefeng Wang
KEYWORDS:
Hub Port, Kribi Port, Intermodal Network, Shipping Network, Logistics, Transhipment, Transportation, Indexing
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Applied Sciences,
Vol.8 No.6,
June
29,
2018
ABSTRACT: In this paper, a
study on four African ports was taken out that all have the ca-pability to
become a hub port that can serve the central African region. The paper sort to
determine which port was most suitable and port indexing was the method that
was used to evaluate these ports. The ports evaluated were the port of Kribi,
the port of Bata, the port of Libreville and the port of Pointe-Noire. There
were other models that were also used which included linear regression and
linear programming which all contributed to providing the final results of the
port with the most suitable potential to serve as a hub port and meaningful
results were obtained. The final results showed that the port of Pointe-Noire
was the most suitable port to serve the central African region as a hub port.