Abstract:
A Ro-Ro vessel is a type of marine transportation designed to transfer both
freight and passengers from one area to another. Ro-Ro vessel transport wheeled cargo
or cargo loaded with wheeled equipment, with cargo capacity measured in lane meters.
Standard cargo includes vehicles, roll trailers, and cassettes storing forest products, as
well as single and double-stacked containers. This mode of transportation is used for
short-haul cargo between urbanized areas and the confined sea, bay, strait, and
offshore islands. The objectives of this research were to investigate the current
intermodal link contributes to the successful of Ro-Ro service and to determine the
relationship between intermodal link and Ro-Ro service at North Port Klang. Data
collection is used online questionnaire by five Likert scale questionnaire and be
analyzed by using descriptive analysis and Spearman Correlation Analysis methods.
The questionnaire is distributed among the workers in North Port Klang. The
questionnaire collects respondents’ demographic information, contribution of current
intermodal link and relationship between intermodal link and the successful of Ro-Ro
service. As a conclusion, the intermodal link factor has a positive correlation with RoRo operation in North Port Klang, Malaysia, according to the findings. As a result, the
two variables have a modest relationship in this study.
