Container port selection factors: heterogeneity among major market players

1Graduate School of Logistics Inha University Incheon, Korea
2Department of Logistics and Shipping Management Kainan University, Taiwan

Journal of International Logistics and Trade

ISSN: 1738-2122

Article publication date: 31 December 2010

Issue publication date: 31 December 2010

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Abstract

This study explores the main factors considered when shippers and container shipping lines select their import/export and transshipment ports. In the present study, 38 container port selection indices were chosen from the previous research and field interviews. The scores of the 38 items were collected via survey to the three major maritime/port market players: shippers, shipping lines, and container terminal operators. In order to analyze the different priorities imposed on the port selection factors by the three market players, the ANOVA method has been employed. The empirical test shows the different perceptions about port selection attributes among service suppliers and demanders. In addition, the 38 items have been categorized into seven key factors through an exploratory factor analysis. The ANOVA technique was employed again to analyze the perspective differences for the port selection factors among the market players. The results show that there are significant differences among the players assessing the importance of the three port choice factors: liners and terminal operators give more weight to ‘hinterland and terminal basic conditions’ than shippers; terminal operators do not take ‘line operation’ as seriously as carriers and shippers; the factor of ‘terminal operation’ is more significantly considered by liners and terminal operators than by shippers.

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Citation

Lee, S.-Y., Chang, Y.-T. and Lee, P.T.-W. (2010), "Container port selection factors: heterogeneity among major market players", Journal of International Logistics and Trade, Vol. 8 No. 2, pp. 73-90. https://doi.org/10.24006/jilt.2010.8.2.73

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Emerald Publishing Limited

Copyright © 2010 Jungseok Research Institute of International Logistics and Trade

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*Corresponding Author: Associate Professor, Graduate School of Logistics Inha University Incheon, Korea. Fax: 82-32-860-8236 E-mail:

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