An Empirical Study on Port Selection Criteria - Classification of Internal/External factors and Importance of External factors -

Kim, Yul-Sung; Lee, Hong-Girl; Shin, Chang-Hoon

Journal of Navigation and Port Research 2004;28(6):525-530.
Published online August 31, 2004.

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김율성, 이홍걸, 신창훈

An Empirical Study on Port Selection Criteria - Classification of Internal/External factors and Importance of External factors -

Yul-Sung Kim, Hong-Girl Lee, Chang-Hoon Shin

Abstract

Due to the rapid growth of Chinese ports, currently, research for the improvement of competitiveness of Busan port have been intensively studied. These research have mostly evaluated or analyzed competitiveness of ports, and then, based on results of analysis, have suggested some strategies for enhancing competitiveness of Busan port. However, although implications of these previous studies are practically available to build policies for Busan port, basic studies such as identification of port competitiveness(or port selection) related factors for reasonable evaluation and analysis which have contributions in academic area have been very rare. The primary objective of this study is to investigate port selection criteria, based on empirical data. Especially, in this study, we classify internal/external factors, and present importances of external factors that have yet to be empirically identified in previous studies.

Key Words: T-test 분석; Port Selection;Port Competitiveness;Internal Factors;External Factors;T-test