Planning strategies to achieve higher competitiveness of ports are becoming increasingly important in business environment. Therefore, strategic competitive position and efficiency analysis needs to be performed to increase ports’ effectiveness and competitiveness. This matches with one of targets of new concept e-Navigation to increase the agility and efficiency of ports. The purpose of this study was to apply Boston Consulting Group matrix to analyze competitive positioning of major ports in Korea and China in term of several main cargo types and then use a combination of Data Envelopment Analysis and Principal Component Analysis model to calculate efficiencies. Results show that, at the moment, Chinese ports are still on the top with high position and efficiency score for the representative-Shanghai port. However, result also points out that except container type, Korean ports have chance to compete in other cargo types. Moreover, Gwangyang port is regarded as efficient. It has better position time. It is believed that Gwangyang port together with Busan port can compete with Chinese port in the near future.

Abstract
 1. Introduction
 2. Literature Review
  2.1 Research on competitive positioning
  2.2 Research on port efficiency using PCA-DEAmodel
 3. Methodology
  3.1 BCG matrix
  3.2 Principal Component Analysis (PCA) model
  3.3. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) model
 4. Efficiency Analysis between Major Portsin Korea and China
  4.1 Strategic competitive positioning analysis
  4.2 Port efficiency Analysis
 5.Conclusion
 References

• Thi Quynh Mai PHAM(Division of Maritime Transportation Science, Mokpo National Maritime University)
• Kyoung-Hoon Choi(Division of Maritime Transportation Science, Mokpo National Maritime University) Corresponding author
• Gyei-Kark Park(Division of Maritime Transportation Science, Mokpo National Maritime University)