Title: Exploring the factors causing delay in export by containerised multimodal transportation

Authors: Aman Dua; Deepankar Sinha; Rishika Chhabra; Bhavin Shah

Addresses: Food Business Management and Entrepreneurship Development, National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship and Management, Plot No. 97, Sector 56, HSIIDC Industrial Estate, Kundli-131028, District-Sonipat, Haryana, India ' Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, Kolkata Campus, J1/14 EP and GP Block, Sector-V, Salt Lake, Kolkata 700091, India ' Uttrakahand, India ' Operations and Supply Chain Management Group, Indian Institute of Management Sirmaur, Rampur Ghat Road, Paonta Sahib, Himachal Pradesh-173025, India

Abstract: This article has purpose to explore interaction among factors causing the delay in multimodal transportation for containerised exports and provided an integrated interpretative structural modelling (ISM) and cross-impact matrix multiplication applied to classification (MICMAC)-based analysis. The methodology explores the interaction among the factors causing delay in containerised multimodal transportation using ISM. The responses for interconnection among factors affecting set objectives are collected and developed as initial reachability matrix (IRM). The exploration and finalisation of factors, and development of interaction matrices among the factors has been conducted using the MICMAC analysis followed by the development of a structural model. The research derived the factors affecting the containerised movement while considering the overlapping in interpretation among factors and found interaction among factors causing a delay in containerised movement. This work considered the movement of exports by containerisation only. This work considered delay due to operational reasons only and excluded the factors causing delay due to natural factors.

Keywords: multimodal transportation; containerised exports; export modelling; global supply chain.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAOM.2024.140474

International Journal of Advanced Operations Management, 2024 Vol.15 No.4, pp.386 - 404

Received: 16 Mar 2023
Accepted: 29 Dec 2023
Published online: 19 Aug 2024 *