Port Alliance Strategy to Promote the Transshipment Function of Korea Ports

Lee, Sung-Woo; Choi, Yong-Seok

Journal of Navigation and Port Research 2007;31(6):545-553.
Published online August 30, 2007.

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Port Alliance Strategy to Promote the Transshipment Function of Korea Ports

Sung-Woo Lee, Yong-Seok Choi

Abstract

Due to the change of global production network, the establishment of new strategy in Korea ports is required Especially, the trade pattern has been mainly concentrated in Northeast Asia region according to economic growth of the Asia including China， Japan， and Korea Hence, Korea major ports with the competition of price and service has to meet the need of Northeast port alliance and has to compete against other countries in variable trade environment. Therefore， the objective of this study is to propose a port alliance strategy in order to promote the transshipment of Korea major ports such as Pusan port and Gwangyang port. In order to establish the logistics business model in the ports, we provided the direction of the Northeast port alliance and candidate ports in China and Japan.

Key Words: Global product network;Northeast asia;Port alliance;Transshipment;Logistics business model