A Study on the Competitiveness of ASEAN and Korea’s Container Ports in International Logistics Strategies

Gim, Jin-Goo; Lee, Jong-In

Journal of Navigation and Port Research 2004;28(3):177-184.
Published online April 30, 2004.

국제물류전략에 있어서 ASEAN과 한국의 컨테이너항만 경쟁력에 관한 연구

김진구, 이종인

A Study on the Competitiveness of ASEAN and Korea’s Container Ports in International Logistics Strategies

Jin-Goo Gim, Jong-In Lee

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to identify and evaluate the competitiveness of container ports in ASEAN(Association of Southeast Asian Nations) and Korea, which plays a leading role in basing the hub of international logistics strategies at the onset of the 21 st century. Its ultimate purpose is to consider the relevant policy-making by comparing the competitiveness of ASEAN and Korea’s container ports. This paper adopted the HFP method, which is an empirical analysis that evaluated the port competitiveness by quantifying it as a qualitative attribute in the aforementioned area, where both ASEAN and Korea vie with each other for increasing container throughput. The results of this study showed that Singapore ranked the first in the subject of study in view of the competitiveness, followed by Busan(2) and Manila(2) as a leading group of the relevant ports in international logistics strategies. This analytic evaluation contributes to the empirical approach applied to policy-making by the HFP method, which is the newest research technique in social science through the comparative study of port competitiveness between ASEAN and Korea.

Key Words: international logistics strategies;Association of Southeast Asian Nations;port competitiveness;hierarchical fuzzy process;weight;interaction coefficient;fuzzy measurement values;fuzzy evaluation values;representative attributes