The purpose of this research is to find delay causing factors and gaps in standard project management, supply chain and resource management practices in maritime refit projects of Pakistan. In this study, outcome of literature review has been used to kick start the qualitative research. The primary data collection was based on thirty interviews from professionals to establish delay causing factors of capital refit projects of maritime sector. The data collected from interviews was analysed due to four major reasons. First, to highlight the grey areas in standard project management, supply chain and resource management practices. Second, identify new delay causing factors apart from delay factors identified during literature review. Third, crosscheck the authenticity of causes extracted from literature, and lastly to converge the number of causes to major contributors, and establish a framework based on maximum delay causing factors as more number of factors will dilute the efforts put in by the organisation to complete the major refit projects on time. The results of the study reveals that the most delay causing factors in OEM dependent capital refit projects of Pakistan maritime sector identified in the research are obsolescence, supply chain, resource management and project management. However, research also revealed that the effects of obsolescence can be greatly reduced if practices related to supply chain and project management are improved during the planning and execution phase of the project.
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