In this study, a survey was carried out on 150 workers in the small shipping industry through April 2 to April 20, 2012, with the purpose of figuring out the impacts of technological innovation and cost management on productivity in the small shipping industry to put forward developmental implications.
Findings stated above confirm technological innovation factors and cost management factors of our small shipping industry were key factors that elevate financial and non-financial productivity. In the light of low technological prowess and cost structure of small shipping industry, this means that its productivity can be improved when cost management with production factor technology come true as know-how through quality control, which product development technology is the top priority, and intensive cost management with independent niche strategies. Consequently, this implies that when efforts for continuous cost reduction are accompanied by the link of the substructure as an infrastructure of small shipping industry to the systematized structure, its own competitiveness can not only be secured, but its productivity can raised.