• 유통과학연구
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.99-106
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• 2016

Purpose - The antecedent to the relationship between the effect of the characteristics of strategic alliances and the performance of container liner shipping companies has been investigated in this study as container liner shipping companies' strategic alliances. It affects positively and negatively home, partner, and the third parties' performance in container liner shipping companies. Extensive literature reviews on shipper's strategic alliances reveal that strategic alliances in financial and non-financial performance of container liner shipping companies show the performance such as economic effects, business performance, global supply chain management performance, customer satisfaction, and forward integration and backward integration performance. The purpose of this study is to test empirically that the relationship between the characteristics of strategic alliances and financial and non-financial performance in container liner shipping companies. Structured equation modeling and confirmatory factor analysis were used to test the hypothesis using AMOS statistics program. Most previous researches focused on the relationship between the characteristics of strategic alliances and alliance types. There are few empirical studies that focus on business performance data because it is difficult to collect data in container liner shipping companies. However, this research measures financial and non-financial performance differently compared with the previous researches focusing on the characteristics of strategic alliances and alliance types measurements. Research design, data, and methodology - The conceptual model for the study is based on the studies of Lim (2010), Chen & Zhen (2009), and Wang & Meng (2014). The model is built around the factors of characteristics of strategic alliances and business performance. Cost, marketing, and service factors are regarded as proxy for the characteristics of strategic alliances. The financial and non-financial performance are regarded as proxy for the performance of strategic alliances. Based on the analysis of one hundred cases such as forwarder, shipper, and liner shipping companies, this study uses structural equation modeling to verify the effects of the characteristics of strategic alliances on business performance. Conclusions - This study provides container liner shipping companies to get some policy and practical implications in terms of the characteristics of strategic alliances and business performance. First, the cost factor for alliances characteristics has a positively significant influence on the financial and non-financial performance of strategic alliances. The cost factor relationship between high and low performance group does not have a significant difference on the performance of strategic alliances. Second, the marketing factor of alliances characteristics has a positively significant influence on the financial and non-financial performance of strategic alliances. The high performance group's marketing factor has a great non-financial performance than low performance group, but the low performance group's marketing factor has a grater financial performance than high performance group factor does. Third, the service factor of alliances characteristics has a negative influence on the non-financial performance of strategic alliances. The high performance group's service factor has a great non-financial performance than low performance group. Based on the findings from this study, related implications and future avenues deserve to be discussed.

• 한국항해항만학회지
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• 제38권2호
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• pp.177-184
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• 2014

Recently, brand equity is paid much attention in various industries. However, container liner shipping companies are still unfamiliar with this concept, and also the brand equity model has not been tested yet in shipping context. This study, therefore, aims to measure the relative importance of brand equity factors of container liner shipping companies by employing AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process). This study concludes that perceived quality, in particular cost-related service quality, is the most influential factor of brand equity, while weak support is found for brand association. In addition to this, group comparisons were conducted between shipping companies, freight forwarders and academics. The results will be useful as they firstly define brand equity and its role in shipping context, highlighting the significance of brand management to container liner shipping firms. This evaluation is not an end in itself, but will eventually be utilised as a tool to build competitive advantage which cannot be easily imitated by competitors.

• 무역상무연구
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• 제19권
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• pp.96-118
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• 2003

Government tries to revise the article 25 in Korea Maritime Transport Act which describes subject of coastal carriage for exported-imported container cargoes. The subject of coastal carriage will be replaced coastal carrier by ocean liner carrier according to the revised article 25. By adopting the revised article, coastal shipping industry will be deteriorated in terms of returns on investment, sales and etc. Even though the revision is inevitable to harmonize the flow of exported-imported container cargo movement, coastal shipping industry should be developed and restructured to get competitive power and to set up an efficient international logistics system. To enhance competitive power of coastal shipping companies successfully, government must realize the importance of coastal shipping, and aid the industry through various methods such as arrangement of law and regulation, indirected financial assistance, decrease of tax rate, etc.

• Journal of Korea Trade
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.19-41
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• 2023

Purpose - Conventional supply chains (SCs) must identify facilitating roles, such as port or terminal operators, shipping companies, and freight forwarders in executing the various logistical activities that support the organizational strategies of shippers. Meanwhile, supply chain collaborative practices can engender a willingness to share relevant and mutually helpful information. To this end, this study seeks to identify the impact of supply chain integration (SCI) on information sharing (IS) and the operational performance (OP) of Korea's container-shipping industry from the perspective of social capital. Design/methodology - We established the research model for this study based on previous studies. In administering the survey, we obtained 149 valid responses from employees working in liner-shipping companies and freight forwarders in Korea. With the collected questionnaires, the study's hypotheses were tested using SPSS 26.0 and AMOS 26.0 Findings - The results indicate the existence of a mediated relationship where the impact of SCI on OP is mediated by IS. The effect of external integration (EI) on OP is fully mediated by information quality (IQ) and information-sharing content (ISC). Furthermore, EI, IQ and ISC partially mediate the relationship between internal integration (II) and OP. Originality/value - This study expands SCI contexts, where ISC and IQ respectively serve as bridges between EI and OP which has crucial implications for container-shipping companies in terms of improving their performance.

• 한국항만경제학회지
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• 제34권3호
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• pp.133-158
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• 2018

2017년 초 한진해운의 파산에 따라 세계 컨테이너 운송시장에서 차지하는 국적선의 비중 및 역할이 현저하게 줄어들었다. 이에 우리나라의 수출입 기업 뿐만아니라 항만들도 위기를 맞게 되었다. 더구나 미국 트럼프 대통령이 촉발한 관세 및 무역전쟁은 북미 향발 화물의 증가에 부정적인 영향을 초래하고 있다. 반대로 초대형 선사들인 머스크나 CMA CGM과 자국 내 컨테이너 선사간 인수 합병한 중국 및 일본 컨테이너 선사들은 국내 유일의 세계 10대 국적 컨테이너 선사이던 한진해운이 파산함에 따라 선복 공급 감소의 반사이익을 얻고 있다. 수출입화물의 무역거래에서 외국적선사의 권력이 더욱 커지고 있다. 이에 따라 부산 및 광양 등 국내 항만은 해외선사와의 협상력 약화가 초래 되어 선사 유치가 더욱 어려워질 수 있다. 본 연구는 이러한 상황에서 사회연결망의 위상학적 분석과 LSCI 및 CPCI의 경제학적 분석능력을 결합하여 2007년과 2017년의 전 세계 컨테이너 운송네트워크를 비교하였다. 연구결과 항만의 역할을 파악할 수 있으며, CPCI가 중심성지수 및 물동량자료와 높은 상관관계를 갖기 때문에 별도의 중심성 분석 없이도 필요한 중심성지수가 갖는 의미를 활용할 수 있다. 본 연구결과를 우리나라 선사들의 기항 전략과 우리항만의 제휴항만전략 및 발전전략에 활용할 수 있을 것이다.

• 대한산업공학회지
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• 제35권1호
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• pp.92-100
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• 2009

Today international trade through maritime transportation is significantly increasing. Due to this increase, shipping companies are faced with problems concerning the repositioning of empty containers from import dominant ports. The liner shipping service network has been provided to transport containers which load customers' freights. Container ships are moved on the liner shipping service network by observing the predetermined route and transportation time. This research deals with the empty containers distribution problem considering the container ship route. A mathematical model based on the mixed integer program has been introduced in this study. The objective is to minimize the total relevant costs of empty containers such as handling, leasing, and inventory holding, etc. Due to the complexity of the problem, a genetic algorithm has been suggested to solve large sized problems within a reasonable time. Numerical experiments have been conducted to show the efficiency of the genetic algorithm.

• 한국항만경제학회지
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• 제30권1호
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• pp.73-96
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• 2014

해상과 육상운송의 접점인 항만은 생산, 거래, 물류 및 정보 교류의 필수적인 플랫폼으로 각 항만을 교차하는 공급사슬 시스템의 노드이다. 또한, 항만은 이를 이용하는 선사와 화주에게 경쟁우위를 확보할 수 있도록 하며, 국가 경제에 큰 영향을 미치고 있다. 지금까지 이루어진 항만에 대한 선행연구에서는 항만의 경쟁력을 TEU 단위의 항만처리물동량(Throughput)으로 평가하여 왔다. 그러나 최근 컨테이너 처리물동량이 허브항만으로서의 주된 혹은 유일한 조건인가에 대한 의문이 제기되고 있으며 항만과 항만을 연결하는 해운선사들에 의한 주변 항만들과의 연결성 정도가 지역 내 확실한 허브 항만인지에 대한 판단을 할 수 있는 요인으로 부각되고 있다. 본 연구는 사회네트워크분석(SNA: Social Network Analysis)을 이용하여 2006년부터 2011년까지 19개 선사의 기항패턴과 선박투입량을 대상으로 전 세계 항만 네트워크 분석을 실시하였다. 연구결과로 좁은세상, 멱함수 법칙 등과 같은 항만 네트워크의 구조적인 특성을 파악하고 네 가지 항만중심성을 나타냈으며 시계열 자료(2006년~2011년)를 이용하여 연도별 중심성 추이를 나타내고 있다. 이를 통해 항만운영자 및 선사의 항만개발계획 및 선대운영시 항만물동량만을 기준으로 계획을 세우는 것이 아닌 새로운 개선 정책이 필요할 것으로 판단된다.

• Journal of Ship and Ocean Technology
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.34-45
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• 2007

Environment of marine transportation market is changing rapidly. Due to globalization of world economy, marine transportation of cargos, especially trade using container boxes, is increasing dramatically. Fierce competition in the global market of container transportation forces the shipping industry to seek the economy of scale to reduce transportation cost, and drives the merge and alliance of liner shipping companies. Mega-sized container ships, having capacity over 10,000 TEU, were introduced, and appeared recently, in order to reduce the unit transportation cost. Korean shipping and shipbuilding companies are competitive, and have considerable market share in the global market. Even though both industries are inter-connected through ships and have many common interests in order to enlarge the global market share, inter-relation between two industries is surprisingly insignificant. In this paper current issues in the process of environmental change of marine cargo transportation are reviewed, and inter-relation of shipping and shipbuilding industries is discussed. Suggestions for inter-related development of Korean shipping and shipbuilding industries are given, and means for mutually beneficial collaboration are suggested.

• 한국항만경제학회지
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• 제36권1호
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• pp.23-40
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• 2020

본 연구는 IMO 2020 시행에 따른 국내외 선사의 대응전략을 살펴보고, 선사의 주요 대응방안인 저유황유로 연료를 전환할 경우 국적선사가 부담해야 할 추가비용과 그것이 선사의 수익성에 미치는 영향을 시나리오별로 분석하였다. 분석결과, 저유황유 사용 시 국적선사는 상당한 추가 비용이 발생하게 되고 이로 인해 모든 시나리오에서 영업이익 적자를 기록하는 등 수익성이 악화될 것으로 분석되었다. 이러한 결과는 대화주 운임교섭력이 약한 근해선사의 경우 연료유 가격에 탄력적으로 적용할 수 있는 합리적인 BAF 설정 기준이 필요하며, 또한 정유사, 화주, 선사 간 상호협력을 통해 상생할 수 있는 방안을 모색할 필요가 있음을 시사한다.

• 한국항해학회지
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.65-72
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• 2000

This paper deals with the development of the generalized model to assist the empty container repositioning and leasing problems for liner shipping companies. For this, the existing models have been reviewed. And then a mathematical model has been proposed to handle the specific characteristics of the empty container management; the dynamic characteristics, the multi echelon of the transportation and distribution systems, and the substitutions among various container types. In particular, this paper puts an emphasis on the modeling framework for considering substitutions among various container types.