An Empirical Study on the Port Logistics Service Quality and Customer Satisfaction -With a Focus on the Shipping Companies of Busan and Gwangyang Ports-

항만물류서비스의 품질과 고객만족에 관한 연구 -부산.광양항의 해운선사를 중심으로-

  • 송채헌 (전북대학교 상과대학 무역학과) ;
  • 송선옥 (혜전대학 인터넷상거래과)
  • Received : 2004.05.14
  • Accepted : 2004.08.07
  • Published : 2004.08.25

Abstract

Recently the port logistics service has been recognized as a important function of the international logistics, therefore, a lot of papers have been issued concerning the measurement of the service quality of that. But in spite of variety of papers, we can not find out the papers concerning the model of the synthetic customer satisfaction. And also the most of papers concerning the customer satisfaction of service quality have been focused not by cognitive evaluation of the customer, but by affective response. In this thesis, the authors are postulating the model and hypothesis to achieve the research by using the Gr$\"{o}$nroos's model. In order to research the relationship between the port logistics service quality and the customers satisfaction, we are selecting the shipping companies located in Busan and Kwangyang as purchaser and the loading and unloading companies as supplier, and the questionnaires was performed to them. In the result of the empirical study, the technical quality of the port logistics service are affecting directly on the customer satisfaction, but the functional quality are affecting not directly on the customer satisfaction. And also the customer response(affective response) has been proved that it has been exercised as a intermediate role between the port logistics service quality and the customer satisfaction. Therefore it is proved that the affective response of the customer has been exercised a crucial role in the course of supplying the port logistics service.

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