The determination of elements influencing successful collaboration factors in preventing oil spills during bunkering at port

This study is concerned with the factors that could concern the successful collaboration in preventing oil spills during bunkering operations. This study encompasses individual staff at port and bunkering companies in Sabah, Malaysia. The oil spill incidents from bunkering activities are possible to occur while the ships are moving. The primary causes of bunker activities that could lead to the oil spill are overflow, leak incidents, inadequate planning, and human error. This study aims to validate the factors of successful collaboration toward preventing oil spills during bunkering operations. This study utilized a Delphi questionnaire survey distributed to respondents with working experiences between two years and more than 10 years of working experience. The data has been accumulated from the related departments within the individual staff at Jabatan Pelabuhan dan Dermaga Sabah (JPDS) and Kota Kinabalu Port. This study applied an online Delphi questionnaire survey from the required purposive sampling. The Delphi questionnaire survey assembles information about respondents and the importance of and factors influencing successful collaboration by applying Likert scale point of 5 ranging from not important to extremely important. This study has included 59 respondents from JPDS and related bunkering companies and bunkering operators. The data have been analysed using SPSS analysis tools such as Cronbach alpha and Correlation analysis. The result revealed that the Cronbach alpha value shows a high value of 0.960. Meanwhile, the correlation coefficient (r) shows at 0.775. It has shown a positive and strong relationship between the importance of successful collaboration and the factors influencing successful collaboration to prevent oil spills during bunkering. The recommendation of this study could facilitate other port authorities to collaborate or coordinate with other sectors or companies in bunkering operations to gain a successful collaboration in preventing oil spills during bunkering activities. It is also anticipated to contribute to the deficiency of literature on the determination of elements influencing successful collaboration factors in preventing oil spills during bunkering at port.