• 해양환경안전학회지
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• 제28권6호
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• pp.965-972
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• 2022

본 연구는 10톤 미만 어선의 내항성능 기반의 해양활동 기준 마련을 위한 기초 연구이다. 10톤 미만의 어선은 우리나라 등록어선의 약 95%를 차지하고 있고 항해, 조업 등의 해양활동 중에 사고와 인명손실도 많이 발생하고 있다. 이에 따라 해양수산부에서는 어선 출항통제기준을 정하여 풍랑주의보 발효 시 어선의 운항을 제한하고 있지만 선박톤급과 파고에 따른 기준 없이 동일하게 적용하고 있어 해양활동 시 파고에 의한 선박의 동요에 많은 차이가 있을 수 있다. 파고에 의한 선박의 동요는 승선감 및 장비의 성능을 떨어뜨려 해양사고의 요인이 될 수 있으므로 항해, 조업 등 안전한 해양활동 확보를 위해서 파랑 중 내항성능 검토가 필요하다. 하지만 어선에 대한 내항성능 기반 기준 마련 검토는 부족한 실정이다. 이에 따라 우리나라 연안조업어선 10톤급(G/T 9.77톤) 어선을 대상으로 내항성능을 평가하였고 설정된 내항성능 평가 기준의 Operation과 Survival 기준을 적용하여 유의파고와 선속에 따른 해양활동 충족 정도를 해석하였다. 해석 결과 횡동요는 유의파고 0.4m부터 Operation 기준을 초과하였고 유의파고 2.2m부터 Survival 기준을 초과하는 것으로 나타났다. 종동요는 유의파고 1.7m부터 Operation 기준을 초과하였고 유의파고 3.0m까지 Survival 기준은 넘지는 않았으나 횡동요가 유의파고 2.2m부터 Survival 기준을 초과한 상태로 안전하다고 할 수 없다. 따라서 10톤 미만 어선은 풍랑주의보 발효 전까지 출항은 가능하나 해양활동 관련하여 내항성능 평가 기준에는 충족하지 못한다고 볼 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 10톤급 어선을 대상으로 제한적으로 평가 되었으나 해양활동 기준 마련에 큰 도움이 될 것으로 판단된다.

• 한국항해학회지
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.45-79
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• 1980

The aim of this paper is to analyze the mechanics of price formation in the tramp shipping. For the purpose of this study, the main characteristics of tramp freight rates and the market is examined, and a brief examination of the nature ofthe costs of operation is given which are essential for the understanding of the functioning of shipping firms as well as for the understanding of developments in the tramp freight market. The demand and supply relationships in the market is also analysed in detail. Tramp shipping is an industry that has a market which functions under conditions that are not dissimilar to the theoretical model of perfect competition. However, it does notmean that tramp shipping market is a perfectly competitive market. It is apparent that this realworld competitive system has its imperfections, which means that the market for tramp shipping is near to being a perfectly competitive market on an internaitonal scale and it is freight are therefore subjext to the laws of supply and demand. In theory, the minimum freight rate in the short term is that at which the lowest cost vessels will lay-up in preference to operating, and is equal to the variable costs minus lay-up costs; and this would imply that in all times except those of full employment for ships there is a tendency for newer low-cost, and, probably, faster vessels to be driving the older high-cost vessels in the breaker's yards. In this case, shipowners may be reluctant to lay-up their ships becasue of obligations to crews, or because they would lose credibility with shippers or financiers, or simply because of lost prestige. Mainly, however, the decision is made on strictly economic grounds. When, for example, the total operating costs minus the likely freight earnings are greater than the cost of taking the ship out of service, maintaining it, and recommissioning it, then a ship may be considered for laying-up; shipowners will, in other words, run the ships at freight earnings below operating costs by as much as the cost of laying them up. As described above, the freight rates fixed on the tramp shipping market are subject to the laws of supply and demand. In other words, the basic properties of supply and demand are of significance so far as price or rate fluctuations in the tramp freight market are concerned. In connection with the same of the demand for tramp shipping services, the following points should be brone in mind: (a) That the magnitude of demand for sea transport of dry cargoes in general and for tramp shipping services in particular is increasing in the long run. (b) That owning to external factors, the demand for tramp shipping services is capable of varying sharphy at a given going of time. (c) The demad for the industry's services tends to be price inelastic in the short run. On the other hand the demand for the services offered by the individual shipping firm tends as a rule to be infinitely price elastic. In the meantime, the properties of the supply of the tramp shipping facilities are that it cannot expand or contract in the short run. Also, that in the long run there is a time-lag between entrepreneurs' decision to expand their fleets and the actual time of delivery of the new vessels. Thus, supply is inelastic and not capable of responding to demand and price changes at a given period of time. In conclusion, it can be safely stated that short-run changes in freight rates are a direct result of variations in the magnitude of demand for tramp shipping facilities, whilest the average level of freight rates is brought down to relatively low levels over prolonged periods of time.