The purpose of this study is to analyse the status of ASEAN`s Shippingㆍports and establish Korea`s counter-strategies against their environmental changes in international logistics a the onset of the 21st century. The research method accounted for o...
The purpose of this study is to analyse the status of ASEAN`s Shippingㆍports and establish Korea`s counter-strategies against their environmental changes in international logistics a the onset of the 21st century. The research method accounted for overlapping between attributes, and introduced the HFP(Hierarchical Fuzzy Process) method that can perform mathematical operations. BY applying the HFP method to major container ports in ASEAN, the study results showed that Singapore was the most competitive. Even compared with major ports in Korea (after getting comparative ratings and applying the same data and evaluation structure), the number one position still goes to Singapore and then Busan(2) and Manila(2), folloved by Port Klang(4), Tanjung Priok(5), Tanjung Perak(6), Bangkok(7), Inchon(8), Laem Chabang(9) and Penang(9). The main contributions of this study are to be the first empirical study to apply the combined attributes of detailed and representative attributes into the advanced HFP model which was enhanced by the KJ method to evaluate the port competitiveness in ASEAN. Up-to-now, none have comprehensively conducted researches with sophisticated port methodology that has discussed a variety of changes in port development and terminal transfers of major shipping lines.