The Comparative Analysis on the Scrap Transport Costs of Container and Bulk Ship

Park, Jae-Kwan; Joung, Eun-Sun; Shin, Yong-John

Journal of Navigation and Port Research 2009;33(8):563-572.
Published online October 30, 2009.

스크랩(Scrap) 화물의 운송경로별 경제성 평가에 관한 연구

박재관, 정은선, 신용존

The Comparative Analysis on the Scrap Transport Costs of Container and Bulk Ship

Jae-Kwan Park, Eun-Sun Joung, Yong-John Shin

Abstract

The steel industry, as the national representative strategic industry of our country, has played the motive power for the economic growth of Korea in 1970s as the positive support of the government and the management endeavor of the private were harmonized. However, in case of our country, we have mostly relied on import of the raw materials for the steel industry, and as the weight of the imported raw materials is heavy, the steel industry is the industry whose transport burden is big as it is called ‘transport industry’. So, the transport rationalization will be the important task of the steel industry. This study has analyzed the economic efficiency per the transport route (container ship vs bulk ship) of the sea transport related to import/export of the steel scrap on the level acquiring the stable supply of the steel scrap. For this, this study firstly researched the status of domestic/foreign steel industry. And analyzed the world crude steel production volume, steel scrap consumption volume and world steel scrap trading structure. Also, in order to compare the transport logistics expenses between two transport devices, namely, container ship and bulk ship, this study calculated the logistics expenses per ton by using the traffic hours and traffic expenses items as the imported/exported scrap freights of ‘D’ company.

Key Words: Scrap;Bulk ship;Container Ship;Transport-Logistics Cost