• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• v.1
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• pp.293-300
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• 2006

Present International trend of political and economical globalization plays a decisive role in or effect on the domestic problem between South and North Koreas. According to the timely historical tendency, economical cooperation or transportation between the two Korean regimes grows fast and the need of developing optimized logistics system grows significantly as well. In the present research, various transportation methods such as trucking, train, and short sea shipping(SSS) are surveyed and investigated. Based on the survey, a pusher-barge system, among various SSS systems, is introduced as the best or optimized transportation method between Incheon and Gaesugn.