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A Study on the Liner Shipping Network of the Container Port

세계 주요 정기선사의 항만네트워크에 관한 연구

  • Received : 2014.02.21
  • Accepted : 2014.03.14
  • Published : 2014.03.31
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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.

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.

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