• 무역상무연구
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• 제44권
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• pp.181-210
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• 2009

This paper discusses global expansion and global strategies of shipping firms. Acknowledging the lack of research on global expansion by freight transport companies, this paper employs the resource-focused model, and explores "why shipping companies emerge" and "why the strategic behaviour of shipping companies is different in the global market". Despite there being a plethora of theoretical and empirical studies on the international operations of business organisations, it is acknowledged that researchers have largely neglected the issues regarding the international expansion within the freight transport industry. Identifying the general lack of contemporary studies concerning the international behaviour of shipping firms, this study addresses the important gap in our knowledge in the theoretical manner. The theoretical analysis suggests that the shipping company's internal resources can be a real reason for the international market participation.

• Journal of Korea Trade
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• 제24권6호
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• pp.115-134
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• 2020

Purpose - International trade leads to the international division of labor, improving the efficiency of the global economic system. Transport costs are a more serious barrier to international trade than customs tariffs. An increase in competition in the transport sector may thus lead to a reduction in transport costs. However, if a carrier's nationality significantly influences transport costs, simply adding more competing carriers of different nationalities would be ineffective. Therefore, it is necessary to establish national or regional carriers to influence competition and reduce transport costs. This study investigates this "nationality effect" by treating Hanjin Shipping's collapse as a natural experiment. Design/methodology - The theoretical basis of this study is the 3rd-degree price discrimination in container shipping market. By using the monthly data of container freight rates of Korea, China and Japan, this study shows the so-called Korea Premiums, which are the empirical counterparts of nationality effect in Korea container shipping market. For this empirical investigation, the structural model with state-space form is used and the dummy models are also estimated. In addition, because China has been also affected by the Hanjin's collapse, the China premiums are considered too. Findings - Compared with Japan's case, it is shown that there had been the so-called Korea premiums since the collapse of Hanjin Shipping. These results are robust from both the state-space model and dummy models. The time pattern of Korea premiums was consistent with the market evolution, especially the pattern of substitutability in container shipping markets. In addition, this paper shows the magnitude of Korea premiums. Originality/value - The argument of this study that the nationality effect can be interpreted as an extended concept of the home market effect is original, which is expected to evoke future research efforts. Further, the discussion on the shipping industrial policy from both horizontal and vertical aspects will provide the relevant policy makers with solid information, especially for the policy coordination in a global scale.

• 한국항해항만학회지
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• 제42권5호
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• pp.365-370
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• 2018

Currently, container transport services play a substantial role in global cargo transportation, by serving as an intermodal between exporter and importer. Container shipping has become increasingly important over the past few decades, due to obvious advantages. However, Vietnam's container market has shown severely ongoing competition among numerous domestic and foreign shipping lines, resulting in serious consequences occurring such as freight rates substantially decreasing within the last 10 years. Vietnam's sea lanes have become more defensive, to cover losses of shipping companies. Selection of criteria for competitive evaluation of container transport companies is necessary, to facilitate addressing the problems within the enterprise, especially relating to its position in the market and from here, business management can implement strategic plans and reasonable policy, to survive and grow.

• 무역상무연구
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• 제66권
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• pp.263-284
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• 2015

This study has analyzed the efficiency of 10 leading global shipping companies listed in the New York Stock Exchange from2010 to 2014 in order to find the changes of the productivity of shipping industry. The paper observed the Malmquist Productivity Index by using Efficiency and Productivity Analysis System Version 1.0. The data used in this study is the Guggenheim Shipping ETF mainly including the companies of shipping, management, and shipbuilding areas. The results from this statistical analysis indicate that the 10 selected companies have experienced a severely negative growth in 2010. Nevertheless, these companies have accomplished a significant growth of productivity. In particular, the energy transport companies operating Tanker and LNG ships carried out remarkable growth. The reason why the productivity of liner shipping companies did not show the improvement of productivity for five years was attributed to the fact that the P3(Project 3) or M2(Maersk-MSC) including Maersk, MSC, and CMA-CGM were excluded in this research because of the difficulty of attaining reliable source data. The method of this study could be extended to Korean shipping corporations and other global airlines to investigate a changes of certain industries.

• 해양환경안전학회:학술대회논문집
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• 해양환경안전학회 2017년도 공동학술발표회
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• pp.166-166
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• 2017

Nowadays, container transport services play a substantial role in global cargo transportation by serving as an intermodal between the exporter and importer. Container shipping has become increasingly important over the past few decades due to its obvious advantages. However, Vietnam's container market has shown severely ongoing competition among numerous domestic and foreign shipping lines resulting in serious consequences occurring such as the freight rates substantially decreasing within the last ten years. In fact, Vietnam's sea lanes have become more defensive to cover the losses of shipping companies. Selection of criteria for competitive evaluation of container transport companies is necessary to help recognize the problems within the enterprise especially relating to its position in the market and from here, business management are able to put strategic plans in place and reasonable policy in order to be able to survive and grow.

• 한국항만경제학회지
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.115-148
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• 2005

In the liner market, a strategy is hard to sustain as competitors can easily imitate the strategy. For examples, when a number of shipping companies pursue this space exchange strategy in a liner market, their competitors are likely to build a cooperative alliance, following similar strategic pattern without any difficulty. Such strategic imitations are universal in international liner market. Therefore, the success of global alliance requires following critical considerations. First, the strategy of global alliance should be designed the way it gives the liner operators an economy of scale, which could be a key advantage in the competitive market. Second, thorough global alliance the lines should be able to improve their transport service through the reduction of operating costs and the business rationalization. The international alliance today is characterized by a strategic cooperation among a limited number of 'mega-carriers'. Such cooperation between the large-sized operators has come in many different forms. However, the trend has been towards the space exchange agreement, where a carrier on a route offers to another carrier a fixed number of spaces for a fixed period of time. the major carriers have been entered into groupings by integrating their services structures to increase market power. With reference to the above, this study has the following primary objectives: (1) to explore the present status of global alliance in liner shipping industry, (2) to prospect the future trend of the global alliance.

• 한국항해항만학회지
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• 제35권7호
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• pp.581-588
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• 2011

Globalization of production, changing technology in ocean shipping sector, shifting bargaining power from port service provider to port users, changing distribution patterns of the containerization and new implementation for the environment and safety concerns introduced new ways of administration in port sector. In these days, port industries cannot survive alone. Port operation and management has to be proactive to cooperate and integrate with other port operators or other industries. In the 21st century, cooperation in maritime sector is more common than that in the past with several different reasons in a mixture of forms of cooperation. Cooperation among port authorities, port operators, shipping line, inland transport service providers and/or related organizations themselves becomes to exist to overcome the challenges and development of the global transport chain. This paper investigates the concept of port cooperation and the case analysis of the cooperation in the port industry.

• 무역학회지
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• 제43권6호
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• pp.51-70
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• 2018

본 연구는 글로벌 해운기업의 목표부채비율 추정하고 자본구조와 시장점유율의 관계를 규명하고자 한다. 2010년부터 2017년까지 세계 상위 100대 해운기업을 대상으로 목표부채비율을 결정하는 요인과 부채비율이 해운시장의 시장점유율에 미치는 영향을 실증분석 하였다. 연구결과, 글로벌 해운기업은 목표부채비율을 62% 정도 조정하고 있으며, 수익성과 MB 비율은 음(+), 기업규모의 5년 만기 국고채 이자율은 양(+)의 영향을 미치는 것을 확인하였다. 전체 해운기업은 전략적으로 부채를 사용하여 시장점유율을 높이고 있는 것을 확인하였다. 그리고 해운기업을 물동량 중심과 운임 중심으로 비교분석 한 결과, 물동량 중심 기업은 부채비율을 높여 컨테이너 물동량을 늘리고, 운임 중심 기업도 전략적으로 부채를 사용하여 운임을 낮추어 시장점유율을 높이고 있었다. 특히 컨테이너 물동량 중심 기업은 운임 중심 기업보다 더 전략적 부채를 사용하여 물동량 증가를 통해 수익 증가 및 경쟁적 지위 획득을 통한 과점화 전략을 펼치고 있다. 또한 물동량 중심 기업과 운임 중심 기업을 고성장과 저성장 기업으로 비교한 결과, 고성장 기업일수록 부채비율이 시장점유율에 미치는 영향이 미흡하였다. 이는 고성장 해운기업의 경영자일수록 주식발행보다 부채발행을 통한 자산 투자 규모를 축소하는 과소투자 문제가 발생하고 있는 것을 확인하였다는 점에서 큰 의미를 갖는다. 연구결과는 해운기업의 자본구조가 시장점유율에 영향을 미치는 새로운 변수로 인정될 수 있으며, 이를 해운시장의 경쟁전략과 연계하여 관리할 필요가 있음을 시사한다.

• 한국항만경제학회지
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.89-110
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• 2017

국제 해운시장에서는 규칙적이고 반복적으로 이루어지는 정기선 서비스의 특수성을 인정하여 정기선사 간의 과당 경쟁을 방지하고 항로의 질서 유지와 안정화를 위해 국제 카르텔인 해운동맹의 결성을 인정하였다. 하지만 선박대형화와 복합운송의 발달 그리고 비동맹선사의 세력확대로 인하여 해운동맹은 와해되기 시작하였으며 결국 폐지되기에 이르렀다. 정기선 시장에서 중요한 역할을 담당했던 해운동맹이 폐지되면서 정기선 시장의 경쟁구도는 변화를 겪기 시작하였다. 따라서 해운동맹의 폐지가 정기선 시장에 미친 영향에 대한 연구가 필요하게 되었으며 해운동맹의 폐지로 인하여 영향을 받은 요소를 선정하여 상관분석과 다중 회귀분석을 통하여 영향을 분석하였다. 분석 결과, 해운동맹의 폐지로 인하여 각 선사들은 선복량 증가로 운임 경쟁이 심화되었고 결국 비용구조가 유리한 선사는 수익을 창출하고 그렇지 못한 선사는 적자를 기록하게 되었다.

• 한국항해항만학회지
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• 제48권1호
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• pp.62-77
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• 2024

해상운송 산업에서는 공급과 수요의 불균형이 지속적으로 증가하면서 세계 주요 해운선사들이 해운 시황에 따른 선복량을 탄력적으로 조절하기 위해 블랭크 세일링을 주요 수단으로 사용하고 있다. 일반적으로 블랭크 세일링은 중국의 춘절 기간에 맞추어 많이 실시되어 왔지만, 2020년부터 시작된 글로벌 팬데믹과 미국·중국 간 무역 전쟁 등과 같은 특수한 상황으로 인해 최근 해운선사들은 기존 대비 큰 규모의 블랭크 세일링을 실시하였다. 이러한 블랭크 세일링은 화물 운송 지연에 직접적 영향을 미치기 때문에 기업과 소비자의 측면에서 부정적인 영향을 초래할 수 있다. 따라서 본 연구는 이에 선제적으로 대응하기 위해 포아송 회귀모형과 음이항 회귀모형을 활용하여 해상운임 결정요인이 해운선사의 블랭크 세일링에 미치는 영향력을 분석하였다. 분석 결과, 포아송 회귀분석의 2M의 경우 유의한 변수로 글로벌 컨테이너 해상물동량, 컨테이너 선복량, 컨테이너선 해체량, 컨테이너선 신조선가지수, OECD 인플레이션을 도출하였고, 음이항 회귀분석의 Ocean Alliance의 경우 글로벌 컨테이너 해상물동량과 컨테이너선 발주량을, THE Alliance의 경우 컨테이너선 선복량과 금리를, Non-Alliance의 경우 국제유가, 글로벌 공급망 압력지수, 컨테이너선 선복량, OECD 인플레이션을, Total Alliance의 경우 컨테이너선 선복량과 금리를 유의한 변수로 도출할 수 있었다.