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Optimal Dual Pricing and Passenger Safety Level for Cruise Revenue Management

  • Cho, Seong-Cheol;Zhang, Mengfei
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.41 no.2
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    • pp.63-70
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    • 2017
  • Despite the remarkable continual growth of the world cruise industry, studies have yet to be attempted on many revenue management problems in cruise operations. This paper suggests two schemes that can be easily applied to cruise revenue management: optimal dual pricing and passenger safety level. In optimal dual pricing, a pair of higher and lower prices is applied to cabin reservation through market segmentation. This scheme can be executed with a linear price-response function for the current unreserved cabins. A cruise line could benefit from this scheme to maximize reservation revenue while attaining full occupancy. The dual pricing scheme is also devised to produce only integer demands to suit real management practices. The life boat capacity is an additional service capacity unique to the cruise industry, catering to passengers' safety. The concept of passenger safety level is defined and computed for any passenger life boat capacity of a cruise ship. It can be used to evaluate the passenger safety of a cruise ship in operation, as well as to determine the number of life boat seats required for a new cruise ship. Hypothetical examples are used to illustrate the operation of these two schemes.

A Study on the Improvement of Manning Standards of Small Vessel Operator in the Ship Officer's Act (선박직원법상 소형선박조종사의 승무기준 개선에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Dong-Geun;Jeon, Yeong-Woo
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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    • v.12 no.4 s.27
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    • pp.307-312
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    • 2006
  • The necessity of improving manning standards in the Ship Officer's Act has recently been strongly advocated by the fisheries industry. The fisheries industry maintained the position of the relaxation cf current manning standards. However, the Labor unions, Marine Officers Association, and Radio Officers' Association persisted to strengthen the standards or to keep the current standards. This paper studies the appropriateness of current manning standards and proposes its improvement scheme to secure the safe operation of vessels.

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Improvement of the Vibration Characteristics for the Oil Pipe Support Structure of the Crude Oil Carrier (설계개선에 의한 원유운반선 송유관 지지구조물의 진동 저감)

  • Kim Heui-Won;Park Jin-Hwa
    • Special Issue of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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    • 2005.06a
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    • pp.69-75
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    • 2005
  • Recently it was reported that the vibration problems on the oil pipe support structure of the crude oil carrier were occurred. in order to investigate the vibration characteristics and the causes of the vibration occasionally. the vibration measurements and impact tests for the oil Pipe structure were carried out. From the measurement results severe vibration was caused by the resonance between the transversal natural frequency of the structure and $6^{th}$ order excitation force of the main engine. Providing the proper countermeasures a series of the vibration analyses were carried out based on the measurement results. From the analysis results, it was concluded that the vibration characteristics of the oil pipe structure were affected by the oil pipes, support structure itself, upper deck structure and the installation spaces and the standard design was established for the crude oil carriers.

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A Study on Direction of Industrial Utilization for Jellyfish in Korea (해파리 피해 실태 및 산업적 이용 방향)

  • Kim, Dae-Young;Lee, Jung-Sam;Kim, Do-Hoon
    • Journal of Fisheries and Marine Sciences Education
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    • v.26 no.3
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    • pp.587-596
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    • 2014
  • The study aims at suggesting the direction of industrial utilization for harmful jellyfish which appears in large quantities in the Korean coastal areas. If the technology of industrial utilization for the jellyfish is developed, it will be possible to grow the industry to the export industry due to the mass appearance of jellyfish in Korean coastal areas. The industrial utilization of jellyfish should follow the direction of minimizing the damage by the jellyfish blooms and maximizing the resource recycling of the jellyfish. Therefore, Korea needs construction of infrastructure for the industrialization and promotion of R&D in order to activate the industrial utilization. Finally, the study suggested issues and tasks for promoting the industrial utilization of jellyfish as follows. First, Korea should stabilize the high quality raw material supply system. Second, mass processing technology should be developed for the industrial utilization of the jellyfish. Third, research and manual development should follow for the preparation of turning the jellyfish to the food. Fourth, extraction technology of useful non-food substance such as extracting collagen from jellyfish should be developed and accelerate the industrial utilization of non-food area.

A Study on the Port Technology Policy and Development Strategy (국내 항만기술 개발정책과 중장기 발전방안 연구)

  • Won, Seung-Hwan;Choi, Sang-Hei
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.31 no.1 s.117
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    • pp.99-105
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    • 2007
  • The environmental changes in ports such as large size, high technology, and efficiency are greatly realized and advanced ports focus on the research and development for the port technology to be hub ports in each continent. It is necessary to continuously develop the port technology in order to cope with those changes. The continuous development of the port technology leads to not only the growth of the domestic port industry but also the preoccupation of the world's industry and the increase of the export amount related to the port technology. In this paper the state of the art in the domestic and foreign port technology are surveyed proposes the development policies and strategies of the domestic port technology are suggested.

A preliminary study on seabed classification using a scientific echosounder

  • FAJARYANTI, Rina;KANG, Myounghee
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Fisheries and Ocean Technology
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    • v.55 no.1
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    • pp.39-49
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    • 2019
  • Acoustics are increasingly regarded as a remote-sensing tool that provides the basis for classifying and mapping ocean resources including seabed classification. It has long been understood that details about the character of the seabed (roughness, sediment type, grain-size distribution, porosity, and material density) are embedded in the acoustical echoes from the seabed. This study developed a sophisticated yet easy-to-use technique to discriminate seabed characteristics using a split beam echosounder. Acoustic survey was conducted in Tongyeong waters, South Korea in June 2018, and the verification of acoustic seabed classification was made by the Van Veen grab sampler. The acoustic scattering signals extracted the seabed hardness and roughness components as well as various seabed features. The seabed features were selected using the principal component analysis, and the seabed classification was performed by the K-means clustering. As a result, three seabed types such as sand, mud, and shell were discriminated. This preliminary study presented feasible application of a sounder to classify the seabed substrates. It can be further developed for characterizing marine habitats on a variety of spatial scales and studying the ecological characteristic of fishes near the habitats.

Does GVC Participation Improve the Productivity of Korean Manufacturing Firms? : Evidence from Subgroup Analysis Using Enterprise-level Data

  • Suji Jeong;Soo-yong Shin
    • Journal of Korea Trade
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    • v.26 no.6
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    • pp.96-117
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    • 2022
  • Purpose - Considering the recent instability of world economy and its heavy dependence on foreign, Korea must formulate breakthrough approaches to proactively cope with these adverse global developments. As such, this study aims to ascertain how participation in global value chains (GVCs) relates to corporate productivity and derive policy implications. Design/methodology - This study utilizes the microdata of Korean manufacturers to develop indicators of GVC participation at the enterprise level and analyzes the effects of GVC participation on the firm's total factor productivity by using fixed effect model. Findings - Enterprises with highest rates of export-side GVC participation see their productivity grow as their export-side GVC participation rates increase. In addition, when companies are classified by their export-side GVC participation rates, increasing export values improves all firm's productivity. In particular, those with low participation rates are analyzed to achieve higher productivity by increasing their imports, not only exports, which implies that companies with lower export-side GVC participation can boost productivity by reinforcing their export and import activities. Originality/value - This research paper distinguishes itself from others in that it makes a novel attempt to design the indicators of GVC participation at the enterprise level, not at the national or industry level. In addition, this study contributes to the existing literature by dividing companies into subgroups depending on their GVC participation rates for each of export and import and identifying variances in the effect of GVC participation on productivity growth among subgroups.

Buoyancy Engine Independent Test Module Test in the the Deep Ocean Engineering Basin and at Sea (부력엔진 독립시험 모듈 심해공학수조 시험과 실해역 시험)

  • Chong-Moo Lee;Hyungwoo Kim;Heung Hyun Lim
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Industry Convergence
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    • v.27 no.3
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    • pp.629-634
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    • 2024
  • The Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering (KRISO) has developed a test module that can vertically ascend and descend with a buoyancy engine to verify the performance of the developed buoyancy engine. The independent test module has been tested in the Ocean Engineering Basin(C.M.Lee et al., 2023). After that, more tests were performed in the Deep Ocean Engineering Basin and at sea. In the 50-meter depth pit test of the Deep Ocean Engineering Basin, there were no problems with the ascent and descent operations, but the buoyancy engine was not properly maintained due to various problems in the independent test module, resulting in a difference between the calculated results using the solution of the equations of motion and the actual measurement results. The East Sea test was conducted at a depth of approximately 110 meters north-east of Pohang, with a dive to 100 meters. The difference between the pressure sensor value and the calculated value was observed, but after checking the results of the underwater position tracking device(USBL, Ultra Short Base Line system), it was estimated that the difference was caused by the influence of the current.

A Study on the Development of Module for the Ocean Education -Focus on Busan Metropolitan City- (해양교육 모듈개발에 관한 연구 -부산지역을 중심으로-)

  • Jeong, Woo-Lee;Moon, Serng-Bae
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.37 no.1
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    • pp.23-28
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    • 2013
  • The ocean education in Korea is very weak even though Korea is the $5^{th}$ strongest country in maritime fields. This research figured out the ocean education status of Korea and some educationally advanced foreign countries, and developed modular ocean education programs to handle ocean education systematically and efficiently. Especially, the research presented the modular ocean education programs which are focused on Busan metropolitan city. Also, this suggested the ocean education courses which are composed of the correlated education modules to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of the ocean education. These results are expected to be important motives to make the foundation for follow-up business of ocean education as well as contribute to foster ocean consciousness and revitalize the ocean education by expanding the ocean education from Busan to whole country.

A Basic Study on Development of a Tracking Module for ARPA system for Use on High Dynamic Warships

  • Njonjo, Anne Wanjiru;Pan, Bao-Feng;Jeong, Tae-Gweon
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.40 no.2
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    • pp.83-87
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    • 2016
  • The maritime industry is expanding at an alarming rate hence there is a perpetual need to improve situation awareness in the maritime environment using new and emerging technology. Tracking is one of the numerous ways of enhancing situation awareness by providing information that may be useful to the operator. The tracking module designed herein comprises determining existing states of high dynamic target warship, state prediction and state compensation due to random noise. This is achieved by first analyzing the process of tracking followed by design of a tracking algorithm that uses ${\alpha}-{\beta}-{\gamma}$ tracking filter under a random noise. The algorithm involves initializing the state parameters which include position, velocity, acceleration and the course. This is then followed by state prediction at each time interval. A weighted difference of the observed and predicted state values at the $n^{th}$ observation is added to the predicted state to obtain the smoothed (filtered) state. This estimation is subsequently employed to determine the predicted state in the next radar scan. The filtering coefficients ${\alpha}$, ${\beta}$ and ${\gamma}$ are determined from a pre-determined value of the damping parameter, ${\xi}$. The smoothed, predicted and the observed positions are used to compute the twice distance root mean square (2drms) error as a measure of the ability of the tracking module to manage the noise to acceptable levels.