Open AccessEvaluating Freight Forwarders in the Air Cargo Industry
Author(s) -
Elif B. Kiziltas,
Zeynep Şener,
Mehtap Dursun
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of economics and statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2309-0685
DOI - 10.46300/9103.2021.9.15
Subject(s) - air cargo , revenue , ranking (information retrieval) , weighting , business , point (geometry) , bulk cargo , order (exchange) , operations research , transport engineering , computer science , engineering , mathematics , finance , marine engineering , artificial intelligence , medicine , geometry , radiology
Freight forwarders are of great importance in the air cargo industry. As the cargo revenue constitutes an important source for airline companies, the evaluation of freight forwarders is vital for airlines’ success. This study employs DEMATEL method in order to prioritize the determined criteria for evaluating freight forwarders from the point of view of an airline. The calculated importance weights are used in an illustrative problem where the ranking of freight forwarders are obtained by employing the simple additive weighting method.