Improving Decision Making: Route Optimization Techniques for Aqaba Sea Port in Jordan

This study uses linear programming to build transportation and transshipment models in order to test whether the existing actual costs to transport the major Jordanian exports and imports are optimal. The main findings of this research showed evidence about the ineffectiveness of the current policies of transportation and transshipment which stipulates a change towards optimal values to target minimal overall costs of transportation and transshipment. It is recommended that Jordan develops its own shipping fleet to cut drastically the cost of importation through means of economics of scale and bulk shipping.