Factors Effecting Sea Transportation: Evidence From the Perspective of Pakistan

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the factors affecting sea transportation in Pakistan. This study uses political events & imbalances, industrial technologies, disruptive innovation & cybersecurity threat, world economy and transport costs (representing factors) as independent variables. Whereas, sea transportation is used as the dependent variable to investigate the relationship between factors and sea transportation Pakistan. To assess the relationship, quantitative research method is used. Primary data is collected with the help of structured questionnaire (adopted from previous research studies) using 5-Likert scale. Adopted questionnaire was distributed amongst the employees working for sea transportation in Pakistan and 220 responses (sample size finalized through Sample Size Calculator) were gathered from the respondents through convenience sampling technique. Data collected from the respondents were analyzed through SPSS Software with the help of statistical tests (such as reliability, descriptive frequencies and statistics, correlation and regression analysis). Based on the findings, factors (political events & imbalances, industrial technologies, disruptive innovation & cybersecurity threat, world economy and transport costs) significantly effects sea transportation in Pakistan. Conclusively, findings of this study prove that change in factors (political events & imbalances, industrial technologies, disruptive innovation & cybersecurity threat, world economy and transport costs) bring a definite change within sea transportation in Pakistan