• Journal of Korea Port Economic Association
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• v.32 no.1
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• pp.179-192
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• 2016

This purpose of this study is to identify the Analysis of Safety Control Factor Influenced on the Management of the Costal Shipping Companies. The study selected the analysis of safety control factors performed the Brain-Storming method, Depth Interview and Face-to-Face Interview. This survey targets are 25 experts for the opinions of expert groups with CEO of coastal shipping companies. This study used ISM(Interpretive Structural Modeling)to analyze the safety control factors and understand correlations between factors and found that sufficient acquirement of legal shipping equipment and freight (or passenger) management factors are the safety control factors that give the biggest effect on the management of coastal shipping companies. ISM analysis results are as follows. The factors that most influence the advancement of safety management is ensured the legal faithful to ship equipment. In the future, a survey have to multiple targets and to improve the practical needs by using a FSM (Structural Fuzzy Modelling).

• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.39 no.3
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• pp.261-266
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• 2015

Many of previous studies suggested that working capital management is an important component of firm's financial decision and efficient working capital management affects firms' profitability and it's value. Recently, Korean shipping firms have been suffering from financial distress by recession of shipping economy. In this point of view, this study tries to investigate the relationship between working capital management and shipping firm's profitability, using panel data on 46 Korean shipping firms for the period of 2004-2013. As result of panel regression, it proved that average payment period, inventory turnover, cash conversion cycle and operating cycle are significantly associated with firms profitabilities such as profit margin ratio and operating profit ratio, and the manager of shipping firm can increase firms profitability by more efficient working capital management. There are strong positive relationships between average payment period and operating cycle and firm's profitability. These results suggest that managers can create firm's value by increasing average payment period and operating cycle. Otherwise inventory turnover and cash conversion cycle have negative relationships with firm's profitability. It means that managers can increase firm's profitability by reducing these variables.

• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.40 no.3
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• pp.129-138
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• 2016

Shipping companies involved in sea transportation service are exposed to uncertainty due to its volatile business environment. It is crucial that shipping companies take effective strategies to cope with uncertain business environments and to achieve high business performance. Using Porter's generic strategy, this study investigates the relationships between environmental uncertainty and competitive strategies, and the impact of competitive strategies on firm's business performance. To test hypotheses, OLS regressions and Tobit analysis were conducted on Korea shipping companies who provide global sea transportation service. The findings of this study can be summarized as follows. First, variation of environmental uncertainty affects cost-leadership strategy and differentiation strategy. Diversity of environmental uncertainty affects differentiation strategy, but not cost-leadership strategy. Second, firms attain business performance by using the cost-leadership strategy. That is, shipping companies can achieve high business performance by reducing their operating costs in the entire process of transportation service.

• Journal of Korea Port Economic Association
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.25-56
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• 2009

The purpose of this study is to analyze the components and to verify the relationship between service orientation, employee satisfaction, customer orientation and business performance of liner shipping company. In order to achieve the purpose of this study, literature survey related to service orientation, employee satisfaction, customer orientation and business performance was carried out and took a empirical analysis by the use of questionnaire method for employees in liner shipping company. The final results and conclusions are as follows; Service orientation of liner shipping company is a major element which has an effect on employee satisfaction. It has also effect on employee's dedicational attitude to achieve company's goal with pride on their duty and organization. In addition to, the relationship between service orientation, employee satisfaction, customer orientation and business performance finally reach to valuable attitude related in customer's satisfaction, and then it will read up high business performance and successful attainment.

• Journal of Korea Port Economic Association
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.297-311
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• 2011

This paper deals with a strategic investment decision model for improving investment profit in shipping industry. Despite the quantitative expansion of Korean shipping business, many shipping firms have suffered financial difficulties due to financial and operating risks that result from the characteristics of capital-intensive business as well as of volatility of shipping markets. As a result, managers in charge of making an investment decision, particularly in tramper business sector, are required to take both financial and operating risk factors into consideration. Put it differently, managers are strongly recommended to avoid these risks by ship asset play; buy-low and sell-high, which results in considerable capital gain and cost reduction. In addition, managers in shipping industry are also recommended to consider the ship chartering investment alternative when the freight markets show extreme volatility as the case of 2008 triggered by sub-prime mortgage financial crisis in USA. For example, the BDI suffered plunging down from 1000 in 2008 to 100 in 2010. Consequently, the 4th largest shipping company in Korea, DAEHAN Shipping Co., has collapsed primarily due to excessive tonnage expansion during the peak time of bulk market. In sum, the strategic investment decision model, suggested in this paper, is designed to include such factors as capital gain by asset play, timely chartering for alternative shipping service, and optimization of operating profit by tonnage adjustment in accordance with change in the shipping markets concerned.

• 해운
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• s.82
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• pp.16-21
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• 2011

일본 산업에 내재된 구조적인 문제점에 지진 영향이 더해지면서 일본 제조업이 구조적인 변화를 겪을 가능성 증대되고 있다. 기존 일본 제조업의 공급사슬 모델은 그동안 효율성이 높다는 평가를 받아 왔으나, 지진과 같은 위기상황에서는 전체 생산 시스템이 중단되는 등 리스크 대응 측면에서는 취약한 모습을 보이고 있다. 일본 기업의 국내 경영 리스크 증대 및 제조업의 공급사슬 변화 영향으로 일본 기업의 해외 이전 현상이 점진적이고 지속적으로 진행될 것으로 예상된다. 일본 기업의 해외이전 과정에서 한일 기업의 협력 가능성도 증대할 것으로 예상되므로 한국 기업은 적극적으로 비즈니스 기회를 발굴하는 노력이 필요하다. 이 시점에서 한국 정부 및 지자체는 이전 기업에 대한 인센티브 부여 등 일본 기업유치 방안을 적극적으로 검토할 필요가 있다. 다음은 포스코 경영연구소에서 발표한 "대지진 이후 일본 제조업의 변화 전망과 시사점"의 주요 내용을 정리 요약한 것이다.

• Journal of Korea Port Economic Association
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.131-149
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• 2014

The objective of this study is to describe and determine how and to what extent size of firm, operating vessels and interest cost, leverage, debit maturity, growth opportunity and cash flow affect the cash holdings of Korean shipping companies. A sample of 38 Korean shipping firms for a period of 9 years(from 2005 to 2013) was selected. In panel data regression, this study finds that cash holdings are negatively affected by firm size, operating vessel size and debit maturity, and positively affected by volume of interest costs. In firm's group of relatively large volume of operating vessel, it's cash holdings are affected by debit maturity, cash flows and growth opportunity but in firm's group of small volume of it, interest cost, debit maturity and operating vessel's size are related with cash holdings. It proved that determinants of cash holdings in a high interest costing group are size of operating vessel, interest cost and debt maturity. On the other hand, debit maturity, growth opportunity, firm size and extent volume of vessels are associated with cash holdings in relatively row interest costing group.

• The Korean Journal of Air & Space Law and Policy
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• v.32 no.1
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• pp.177-200
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• 2017

This writer have thus far reviewed the civil and criminal obligations of the directors of a parent company that sponsored financially troubled affiliates. What was discussed here applies to logistics companies in the same manner. Hanjin Shipping cannot expect its parent company, Korean Air to prop it up financially. If such financial aid is offered without any collateral, under Korean criminal law, the directors of the parent company bears the burden of civil and criminal responsibility. One way to get around this is to secure fairness in terms of the process and the content of aid. Fairness in terms of process refers to the board of directors making public all information and approving such aid. Fairness in terms of content refers to impartial transactions that block out any possibilities of the chairman of the corporate group acting in his private interest. In the case of Korean Air bailing out Hanjin, the meeting of board of directors were held five times and a thorough review was conducted on the risks involved in the loans being repaid or not. After the review, measures to guard against undesirable scenarios were established before finally deciding on bailing out Hanjin. As such, there are no issues. In terms of the fairness of content, too, there were practically no room for the majority shareholder or controlling shareholder to pocket profits at the expense of the company. This is because the continued aid offered to a financially troubled company (i.e. Hanjin Shipping) was a posing a burden to even the controlling shareholder. This writer argues that the concept of the interest of the entire corporate group needs to be recognized. That is, it must be recognized that the relationship of control and being controlled between parent company and affiliate company, or between affiliate companies serves a practical benefit to the ongoing concern and growth of the group and is therefore just. Moreover, the corporate group and its affiliates, as well as their directors and management must recognize that they have an obligation to prioritize the interests of the corporate group ahead of the interests of the company that they are directly associated with. As such, even if Korean Air offered a loan to Hanjin Shipping without collateral, the act cannot be treated as an offense to law, nor can the directors be accused of damages that they bear the responsibility of compensating under civil law.

• Journal of Korea Port Economic Association
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.339-360
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• 2009

In recent years, the quality and safety requirements in the shipping industries have been more stringent than the previous requirements. It is essential to effective quality management system which can cope with a change in shipping business environment and improve shipping service performance to get competitiveness in the international shipping market. This study on the focus of the Korean shipping company which provides shipping transportation service examined following issues. First, how each of the key factors of ISO 9001 quality management affects service performance, internal customer satisfaction and customer orientation. Second, how the internal customer satisfaction affects service performance and customer orientation. Third, customer orientation affects service performance.

• 해운
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• s.94
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• pp.19-27
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• 2012

물류 서비스는 경제 주체간의 원활한 상품 수송을 도모하여 구매 소비를 뒷받침하는 효율적 경제 및 시장의 필수조건이다. 한국의 물류산업의 경쟁력은 선진국에 비해 낮아 국내 물류활동 현황을 살펴보고 선진국의 물류 효율화 전략을 점검하여 물류 효율화 방안을 모색하여야 한다. 한국의 국가물류비와 기업물류비는 선진국에 비해 높은 수준이나, 비금속 등 일부 제조업의 기업물류비가 과도하게 높은 것으로 분석된다. 국내 물류산업의 문제점을 살펴보면 수요 측면에서는 2PL 의존도가 높은 것이 문제가 된다. 그룹 소속의 2PL 업체로 인해 물류 비효율이 발생하고 물류업계의 대형화, 전문화 실현에 어려움을 야기하고 있다. 공급측면에서는 물류전문기업이 부족하다. 영세기업 저부가가치 사업 위주의 산업구조로 인해 물류전문기업이 부족하여 물류 효율화 효과가 미미하다. 또한, 인프라 측면에서도 국내 물류 인프라가 미비한 현실이다. 높은 도로의존도로 과중한 수송비 부담 및 낮은 물류분야 표준화 수준으로 물류 효율저하가 우려된다. 한편 법제도 측면에서도 물류산업 관련 제도 개선이 미흡하다. 물류산업 관련 제도가 현장을 반영하지 못하고 있으며, 정부기업의 민간 참여 등의 불공정 물류 정책으로 국내 물류산업의 발전이 제한적이다. 다음은 현대경제연구원 이장균 수석연구위원이 발표한 "국내 물류산업의 문제점과 물류효율화 방안"의 주요 내용을 요약 정리한 것이다.