최근 급격한 P&I 보험료의 인상은 해운원가에서 차지하는 비중이 점차 커지면서, 과거와 달리 선주들의 P&I 보험의 선택과 경쟁적인 보험료 확보를 위한 노력도 지속되고 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 P&I 보험에 대한 여러 측면에서의 서비스 품질과 그 결정요인을 실증적으로 분석하고 P&I 보험의 서비스 품질의 결정 요인들이 고객만족에 어떤 영향을 미치는지를 파악하고자 하였다. 본 연구결과는 P&I Club의 선택기준 마련과 유지에 활용 가능할 것이며, P&I Club 측면에서는 P&I 보험서비스의 어떤 품질과 그 결정 요인들을 개선하여 기존 회원사의 유지와 신규회원사 확보 등 시장 점유율 확대에 활용할 수 있을 것인가에 관한 장기경영전략을 수립하는데 도움이 될 것이다.

Due to the rapid changes in world trade and shipping environment, today's ports face ever-increasing competition, from adjacent competing ports. To this reason, port service quality has been recognized as an important strategy to take competitive advantage for those competition. In general, service quality has effect on customer loyalty, and customer loyalty is the resource to sustain competitive advantage which service providers or service producers. By improving customer loyalty, companies can get more benefits and added value. However, this causality qf port service quality has not been clearly identified. Thus, various empirical studies in relation to port service quality are needed. The aim of this study is to analyze the effect of perceived port service quality on customer satisfaction and loyalty. To achieve this aim, we established 8 hypotheses based on SERVPERF in order to test correlations of 5 dimensions of port service, port service quality, customer satisfaction, and customer loyalty. From the result of the hypothesis testing, we found that customer satisfaction and port service quality do not affect customer loyalty in spite of high effect of port service on customer satisfaction.

This paper aims to explore effective ways to improve inspection service and develop customer-centered inspection administration, by carrying out a case study on the K Society of Ship Inspection. The methods applied for this research project are as follows, 1) sector-based examination of the existence of the ISO 9001 system; 2) evaluation or the operation or the system; 3) conduction or a survey questionnaire with the participation of all staff and inspections institutes to analyze customer satisfaction of their inspection service, and 4) statistical analysis of the data collected from the survey questionnaire.