Proceedings of the Korea Port Economic Association Conference (한국항만경제학회:학술대회논문집)
- 2007.07a
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- Pages.493-514
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- 2007
A Study on the Origin/Destiantion of General Cargoes of GunJang Port Data;Focused on China's Ports
군장항 일반화물 O/D에 관한 연구;대중국 항만을 중심으로
Abstract
A Port is, one of the important infrastructures, the terminal to connect between land and sea and exerts influences on the development of nation and local area. Accordingly government and privates are making an investment in port facilities in order to raise its competitive power. Due to the economic growth of China and the geographic advantage that Gunsan and Janghang port are close to China, recently traffic with China is rapidly increasing and the role of Gunsan & Janghang ports as a gateway port of west costbecame more important. There, however, remains that Gunsan and Janhang port still don't equipped with enough facilities and strategies to handle increasing traffic. The purpose of this paper is to analyze O/D data of Gunsan-Janghang Port and present the result of O/D as preliminary data. O/D data of Gunsan and Janghang had been analyzed by kinds of cargoes and from/to China's ports and this paper suggests to the competitive strategies of Gunsan and Janghang port to attract cargoes from/to China particularly.