Abstract:
The marine charges can be defined as the price of the marine services
such as pilotage, towage, mooring, berthing and un-berthing.The Johar Port
Authority (Scale of Rates, Dues and Charges) By-Laws 1988 under Port
Authority Act 196.31s not competitive enough for the current economic
condition. The objective of this study is to identify and compare the effect
scale of rates, dues and charges on marine services 1988 to the current
updated 2011 which is includes the collection data from Johor Port Authority
and Johor Port Berhad with the main focus on the economic sector.The total
revenue of Johor Port Marine is about RM 56,056,100.00 (2009), RM
57,630,492.00 (2010) and RM 58,294,023.00 (2011). Based on the data
collected, there are some changes have been made to improve the old
version of tariff, such as the introduction of the consolidation marine charge.
According to the result analysis, the pilotage dues and tugboat service charge
have increased double. On the other hand, the port dues remain
unchanged.Comparing the consolidation marine charges between Johar Port
Authority (Scale of rates, dues and charges) by-Laws 2011 and Johar Port
Authority (TanjungPelepas) (Scale of Rates, Dues and Chargers) By Laws
2000, there are no much different. According to the data collection, the rate
of charges increase proportionally to the length overall of the vessel apply to
both ports.However, this new tariff is still unable to increase the profit of
Johar Port Marine. According to the data in the appendix the profit of Johor
Port Marine in the year 2010 is increase with RM 34 million compare to 2009
with about RM 32 million. But in the year of 2011 the profit is decrease to
about RM 31 million. In this study, it can be said that the scale of dues,
charges and tariffs have been updated from the former scale of price, to
synchronize with the current expenditure faced by the port operator and It is
found that the new tariff is quite relevant and competitive.