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A Study on the Liner Shipping Network of the Container Port  

Kang, Dongjoon (중앙대학교)
Bang, Heeseok (중앙대학교 국제물류학과)
Woo, Suhan (중앙대학교 국제물류학과)
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Journal of Korea Port Economic Association / v.30, no.1, 2014 , pp. 73-96 More about this Journal
Abstract
Competitiveness of container ports has been traditionally evaluated by capability of individual ports to provide services to customers or their service quality. However, since container ports are connected by container shipping networks to varying degrees, the status of the ports in liner shipping service networks also determines competitiveness of the ports. Sometimes same ports may play different roles in different forms of shipping networks. Shipping network connections that formulate in container ports therefore have more significant impact on their performance than service capabilities they have. This study aims to explore how the shipping and port network has been structured and changed in the past and to examine the network characteristics of ports using Social Network Analysis(SNA). In this SNA study, nodes in the network are the ports-of-call of the liner shipping services and links in the network are connections realized by vessel movements, such that the liner shipping networks determine the port networks. This study, therefore, investigates the liner shipping networks and through its results demonstrates the network characteristics of the ports that are represented by the four centrality indices. This provides port authorities and terminal operating companies with managerial implications to enhance competitiveness from customers' perspectives.
Keywords
Liner shipping network; Port network; Social Network Analysis; SNA;
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