The Effect of Maritime Logistics Service Capacity on Clearing and Forwarding Firms at Lagos Seaport
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Maritime, Capabilities, Clearing, Throughput, Forwarding, Logistics, SeaportAbstract
The research examines the effect of maritime logistics service (MLS) capacity on clearing and forwarding firms in the Lagos seaport. Both primary and secondary data were used for the work. A total of 310 questionnaires were administered via a simple random sampling technique to the MLS providers and freight forwarders. Whereas secondary data on cargo throughput and ship traffic were gathered from the Nigerian Port Authority (NPA). The tools for data analysis comprise trend analysis, Spear-man correlation and multiple regression statistics. The findings discovered that the linear trend line of the cargo and ship traffic at the seaport has consistently increased with 0.749 R-squared (R2) and 0.839 adjusted (R2) over a 27-year period. The result similarly proved that a significant relationship exits between MLS capacity and firms’ service quality (r = - 0.707, n = 300, p < 0.001). The coefficient of 0.654 implies a change of 10% in service quality which means a change of 6.54% in maritime logistics capacity, hence a statistically significant effect (T-statistic = 17.235, p = 0.000).
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