According to the results of the management evaluation of the nation’s public firms over the past seven years, the rating of the port corporation is generally insufficient. According to the results of the seven-year study 2011-2017, the average debt ratio of the port corporation was 34.5%, two to three times lower than that of the general public company, the operating profit ratio of sales was three times higher, and the value added per person was 1.6-1.9 times better. However, the aggregate score and grade were generally low, with 4.1% of the total number of employees of the general public corporation, 10% of the average total assets, and 1% of the average sales volume. The distributed analysis results and panel return analysis results show that the size significantly impacts the overall score and grade. Additionally, major business standards such as port volume, not controlled by the port corporation, appear to have a decisive influence on the low grade of the port corporation. Thus, it appears that improvement and supplementation of key business indicators of port construction are urgently needed in the management evaluation system, which can be properly controlled.

Ports play a key role in international trade, as integral hubs where passengers and cargoes are loaded, discharged, and transshipped. However, the function of ports is becoming more diversified, expanding on roles as industrial clusters, as well as logistical centers. Such roles combined, reap numerous and significant benefits, mainly with growth of jobs and wealth creation, for the local population living in the city, and beyond. Citizens’ awareness of the function and value of ports may not be positive, because of a range of negative factors such as emissions, noise, and road congestion, which can influence their perception. This study’s contribution focuses on empirically evaluating the perception of Busan citizens of the local port, by applying Q methodology. The links connecting the port-city and local population, are assessed by identifying: 1) The level of awareness of the Busan citizens of the port; 2) Factors perceived as positive as well as factors perceived as negative by Busan citizens. There are four main factors, derived from the analysis: 1) Port functional knowledge; 2) Lack of social connectedness port-city; 3) Environmentally concerned and; 4) Absent port’s ripple’s effect. Policy recommendations suggest focusing on improving citizens’ perception of the port, for each of the four main factors derived from the analysis.

Colombo noticeably became the most economical gateway to the Indian subcontinent, in terms of cost as well as time. The Colombo Port Expansion Project (CPEP) started commencement with the purpose of accommodating mega ships, under the long-term strategies of making Colombo the hub of South Asia. In this context, the purpose of this study is to investigate the causal relationship between Indian ports’ originated container traffic, and total transshipments of the port of Colombo, and also to identify the nature of the causality between the two variables, evaluating Granger causality test results. It finds unidirectional causality from total transshipments of Colombo to Indian ports’ originated transshipments in the port of Colombo. It suggested that ongoing port expansion projects, opening up for new markets and attracting new shipping lines in the port of Colombo, have generated significant impact on Indian ports’ container traffic, via the port of Colombo. Findings would be valuable for future forecasting of container traffic in Colombo port and the policy-making process in the port as well.

본 연구의 주제는 우리나라 제1의 항만이자, 해양수도인 부산시를 대상으로 해항도시(sea port city)의 경제성장에 영향을 미치는 해양산업(ocean industries)의 장기적인 효과 및 그 주요 요인을 분석하는 것이다. 즉 수산업, 해운항만산업, 해양관광산업, 조선업 등 해항도 시의 다양한 해양산업이 그 도시의 경제성장에 어떠한 영향을 미치는 지를 부산시를 대상으로 심층 연구한다. 이를 위해 해항도시의 경제성 장과 각 영향변인들에 관한 논거를 살펴보고, 다시 이를 토대로 수산, 해운항만, 조선, 해양관광, 도시재정, 인구, 정치 등에 관한 변수를 설정 하여 연구를 수행하였다. 주요 연구결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 해항도시 부산의 사례에서 해양산업이 도시의 경제성장에 미치는 효과는 상당 한 수준으로 나타났다. 둘째, 수산업, 해운항만산업, 조선산업, 해양관광산업 등 연구대상으로 삼은 모든 분야의 해양산업이 해항도시의 경제 성장에 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 단, 도시경제성장에 대해 해운항만산업과 해양관광산업 및 조선산업의 활성화는 긍정적인 영향을 미 치는데 반해, 수산업의 활성화는 부정적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 이러한 점들은 우리에게 해항도시에 대한 해양산업의 경제적 기여 를 새롭게 인식하도록 만드는 동시에, 향후 정부가 해양산업에 관한 주요 성장동인을 발견할 수 있도록 하는 여러 정책적 시사점을 제공하였 다.

현재 부산항은 위기에 처해 있다. 외부적으로는 세계적인 경제불황으로 전반적인 물동량 감소도 있지만, 신항개장 이래로 북항과 신항 간의 물동량 유치를 위한 출혈경쟁으로 터미널 채산성이 악화되고 부산항 이미지가 크게 손상되고 있다는 점이다. 이는 근본적으로 부산북항이 하역사위주의 운영사로 난립되어 있기 때문이다. 이에 따라, 본 연구에서는 부산항의 문제점을 해결할 수 있는 북항터미널의 통합유인요인이 실질적으로 부산항의 경쟁력제고에 얼마나 영향을 미치는 지를 실증분석하였다. 실증분석결과에 의하면, 북항터미널 운영사를 통합하여 글로벌 터미널 하여야만 선사서비스능력, 항만생산성을 제고시켜 긍극적으로 물동량 증대와 동북아허브항만화에 기여할 것으로 나타나고 있어 부산항 경쟁력제고를 위해 부산북항 터미널의 통합이 정책적으로 시급함을 보여주고 있다.

Since the mid 1980s, the concept of logistics has become more important to the enterprises in strategic sense because it had aggrandized itself to more comprehensive and integrative concept. Therefore study on the service organization of the logistics system for customer’s satisfaction from the management’s point has been focused as one of the major subject in order to improve the logistics quality which would ultimately increase the value of logistics service. This study has been focused on what the port logistics functions and the factors of the port logistics quality are those Korean port managers acknowledge as important factor. And examins these port logistics quality levels and the port logistics value (port productivity, service results) obtained by the results of these activities while reviewing the relation of the custom value which the port managers evaluate in order to evaluate and promote the competitiveness of the Korean port. According to the study results the port logistics function which the Pusan Container Terminal managers recognized as important were customer service management the flexibility of the port facilities and curtailment of the original operation cost of the port. It also indicated that the managers recognized the importance of the customer-oriented terminal management as it showed a close relationship with the port quality level.