In order to attract more transshipment cargoes, Busan Port Authority (BPA) has, since 2003, adopted the volume incentive policy by which more than US 10 million annually have been paid back to shipping lines that were called at the port. However, having been a transshipment port for the Northeast region of China, the port of Busan has come under threat from bold Chinese port development projects, notably Shanghai, as northern Chinese regionnl ports place more emphasis on building facilities capable of handling growing trade volumes. Undoubtedly this would lead to a decline in transshipment container traffic moved via Busan. The purpose of this paper is to identify some core factors that have been affecting the increase of transshipment cargoes of Busan and further to recommend BPA an improved incentive scheme with which more T/S cargoes can be attracted into the port of Busan To clarity the reason why T/S cargoes have increased in the port of Busan, several steps are made as follows: The first step is to make a quantitative model for explaining the development of T/S cargoes during the last decade. The second step is to define the dependent and the independent variables for multiple regressions after testing variable significance. For this, data collection and the accuracy of validation have been done by the direct interview with the experienced staffs in shipping companies of both domestic and foreign country. After validating the model with collected data, the final step is to find variables which are explaining the model mostly. In conclusion, 2 variables were clearly identified as core factors that explain well the development of T/S cargoes in the port of Busan: 'Mohring effect' and total cost. It is strongly recommended, by an empirical study, that an incentive scheme be changed to a way which more feeder vessels rather than mother vessels can reduce their direct costs to call in the port of Busan.

본 연구의 목적은 인접한 2항만 간 화주의 항만선택에 관한 행동을 분석하기 위한 것이다. 이를 위해 본 연구에서는 퍼지추론법과 뉴럴네트웍 모델을 이용하여 항만선택 행동모델, 즉 퍼지-뉴로 행동모델을 구축하고 부산항과 광양항을 대상으로 화주의 항만선택 행동을 분석하였다. 또한 로짓모델과 비교하여 퍼지-뉴로 모델의 판별 우수성을 검정하였고, 서비스 수준과 화물량 등의 파라미터를 변경한 항만선택 행동을 분석하였다.