...). Design/methodology/approach Empirical data were acquired via interviews with the FM management and maintenance personnel and questionnaire survey with port employees. Findings In Trinidad and Tobago (T&T), many facilities at the port have been operated below optimum ability, and there has been...

...Young T. Park; Sun Jing A spare ordering policy is considered for planned maintenance. Introducing the ordering, uptime, downtime, inventory costs and salvage value, we derive the expected cost effectiveness. The problem is to determine jointly the ordering time for a spare and the preventive...