ABSTRACT
Due to their ability to improve their competitiveness in shipbuilding industry (SI), maritime industrial clusters are in the limelight of logistics research. Companies within a cluster can operate at a higher level of efficiency by using more specialized assets and suppliers, with shorter reaction times than they would be capable of alone. One of important practical advantages of clustering is outsourcing. Through this process, companies and industries carry out nonessential processes through suppliers or outside professionals, so they can focus their occupations on higher value-added professional activities across the value chain. The present study analyzes the activities to be outsourced in the SI, through the selection of criteria and statistical treatment of data, using an AHP approach to the selection of outsourcing activities in the shipbuilding industry. Decision-making elements were used through a comprehensive structure comprising strategic dimensions to evaluate the performance of each sector of the shipbuilding cluster.
