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Reducing transportation costs is one of today's global supply chains' essential tasks. For this purpose, as the crucial players of the worldwide supply chains, the international container shipping companies try to find optimal ways to reduce the shipping costs. Unnecessary transhipment and displacement operations are the leading causes of high logistics and transport costs. Selecting the most appropriate container seaport is one of the most effective ways to minimize these costs. The proper container port choice can provide an optimum container shipping system consisting of productive, efficient, and less costly container lines. Besides, a methodological framework is needed to address these kinds of highly complex decision-making issues. To serve this purpose, this paper proposes a fuzzy integrated MCDM approach consisting of the Fuzzy LBWA and fuzzy CoCoSo'B techniques. The consistency and stability of …