was also reported that congestion at the port was contributed by long proceeds of clearing cargos at the port/ long bureaucratic system as well as corruption and other miss conducts. One of responding private port user said that client doesn’t know “if anyone in the shipment organizations to get his/her cargo it will take long process and days, and added that some port workers do not do their work as it’s needed until client/customer, give them some money which is not part of the contract; meaning corruption or bribe”. Congestion at this port was also connected to the increase of the shipping size following globalization of trade and marine transportation nodes in relation to inadequate port facilities such as inappropriate cargo handling equipment’s, the inefficiencies of the land side transport which cause some works at the seaport to stop. In the it was also reported that problems in operation and maintenance of port facilities were among of the causes of congestion where by one or responding port officer put it that lack of finance for buying modern handling equipment, lack of inland or port warehousing facility cause cargo to remain for long time in the port transit facility. The absence of proper maintenance of equipment, lack of adequate stock of spare part and insufficient of standardization of equipment type were widely mentioned. Both of these cause the problem of congestion to continue to grow each year. While chatting with one of experienced clearing and freight forwarder, it was further noted that lack of qualified maintenance personal, lack of training dockworkers, insufficient deployment of labours, poor labour relation and inadequate technology with poor tools and equipment are the major factor which cause congestion in almost all see ports in the country. These finding related with some part of the findings of Mark (2005) who conducted the study in Ghana and
was also reported that congestion at the port was contributed by long proceeds of clearing cargos at the port/ long bureaucratic system as well as corruption and other miss conducts. One of responding private port user said that “if client doesn’t know anyone in the shipment organizations to get his/her cargo it will take long process and days, and added that some port workers do not do their work as it’s needed until client/customer, give them some money which is not part of the contract; meaning corruption or bribe”. Congestion at this port was also connected to the increase of the shipping size following globalization of trade and marine transportation nodes in relation to inadequate port facilities such as inappropriate cargo handling equipment’s, the inefficiencies of the land side transport which cause some works at the seaport to stop. In the it was also reported that problems in operation and maintenance of port facilities were among of the causes of congestion where by one or responding port officer put it that lack of finance for buying modern handling equipment, lack of inland or port warehousing facility cause cargo to remain for long time in the port transit facility. The absence of proper maintenance of equipment, lack of adequate stock of spare part and insufficient of standardization of equipment type were widely mentioned. Both of these cause the problem of congestion to continue to grow each year. While chatting with one of experienced clearing and freight forwarder, it was further noted that lack of qualified maintenance personal, lack of training dockworkers, insufficient deployment of labours, poor labour relation and inadequate technology with poor tools and equipment are the major factor which cause congestion in almost all see ports in the country. These finding related with some part of the findings of Mark (2005) who conducted the study in Ghana and