A Study on the Evaluation of Port Competitiveness in Busan Port and Shanghai Port

Abstract

This study seeks the strategy alternatives for continuous port competitiveness of Busan port improvement in rapidly changing of environment in Northeast Asia shipping. This study aims: 1) to compare port competitiveness of Busan and Shanghai port using entropy weigh TOPSIS; 2) to seek ways to improve port competitiveness of Busan port. After searching the related criteria on port competitiveness factors for analysis, the main criteria are divided into two categories: port throughput (port throughput, throughput change rate, and transshipment cargo volume and transshipment cargo rate), port facilities (depth, the number of C/C, berth length, the number of berth, total area, storage area) criteria of Busan and Shanghai port. The empirical results indicate that Shanghai port is more competitive than Busan port in total competitiveness and port throughput criteria, and Busan port is more competitive than Shanghai port in port facilities criteria.

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“…TOPSIS has been used to identify the factors that affect the competitiveness of ports. See for example (Ertuǧrul & Karakaşoǧlu, 2008;Hwang, Lai, & Liu, 1993;Kim & Lu, 2016;Kim, 2016;Moon, Kim, & Lee, 2015;Shih, Shyur, & Lee, 2007;Supraja & Kousalya, 2016). Several techniques have been established with the sophisticated algorithms and propositions in order to analyse the MCDM problems.…”

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“…Together with these measures, the TOPSIS method was used to measure the ex-post port vulnerability (Cao and Lam, 2019). In another TOPSIS method, Kim and Lu (2016) compared the port competitiveness of Busan and Shanghai ports (Kim and Lu, 2016). Othman et al (2020) have used the FAHP method to find the causes of the imbalance in cargo flows in Malaysian ports.…”