Key Risk Factors Influencing Harbor Tugboat Operations for Kaohsiung Port

The harbor tugboat operation is a very important business and process of Kaohsiung port. To ensure the safety operations to reduce occurrence accidents, it an issue conduct risk assessment for Hence, main purpose this paper employ analytic hierarchy (AHP) method evaluate key factors influencing At first, total three evalu-ation dimensions with 14 preliminary are gener-ated from literature interviews captains. We then applied steps AHP experts’ ques-tionnaires factors. empirical re-sults showed that: (1) ‘Tugboat operators’ most im-portant evaluation dimension port in Taiwan. (2) In order rela-tive importance, top six “judgment error,” “work fatigue,” “poor skills,” “communication mis-understanding,” “negligence relative motion between tugboats commercial ships,” “personality factors,” respectively. Furthermore, some recommendations concerning effective management strategies advices provided practitioners.