Sustainable Development Performance of Maritime Companies Using the AHP-TOPSIS Approach

Abstract

Sustainable development has recently become a crucial concept, with numerous global efforts to promote it. The maritime transport sector, as a key participant in global commerce, bears significant responsibilities for sustainable development. However, this responsibility extends beyond a single dimension, such as economic sustainability. This study aims to select sustainable maritime transport performance criteria and rank them by their significance. Additionally, it seeks to determine which maritime transport company has performed better in terms of sustainable development over the years. The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is used to weight the criteria, and the Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) is applied to evaluate the sustainable development performance of maritime transport companies over time. Three main criteria and eleven sub-criteria were identified through the literature and weighted using AHP. The sustainable development performances of three maritime transport companies were then analyzed by year. The results indicate that the economic dimension is considered the most important in evaluating sustainable development performance, while the social dimension is viewed as the least important. These findings provide a comprehensive approach to understanding and evaluating sustainable development performance in the maritime transport sector.