| Title | Development Of Major Hub Ports in Northeast Asia and Their Impact On the Port of Kaohsiung |
| Dept | Transportation Technology and Information Division |
| Year | 2004 |
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| Summary | Published in April 2004 IOT SERIAL No. 93-55-789, 100pp. Global sea borne container trade has become the mainstream in the shipping industry. Following the evolution of container vessel size increase, shipping routes hubbing and shipping alliance among the major carriers, only fewer hub ports in East Asia will be called on by ultra Large Container Ship in the future. The regional hub port operation will still be dominated by mega carriers. Past experience and evolution of sea borne trade in the shipping industry show that port development, always cope with the changing structure of container shipping to meet the carriers’ needs. The tendency of container shipping development has affected port operation as well as software-hardware related projects investment on major ports in Northeast Asia tremendously. Major hub ports in the region have deepened the waterway and installed the state of art facilities to enhance the port competitiveness and attraction to the mega carriers. In this study, the future construction plan and operation strategies for evaluation of port activity performance in the major hub ports in the Northeast Asia are reviewed, and the improvement measures for the Port of Kaohsiung are proposed in the hope of enabling the Port of Kaohsiung to become a container load center in the far eastern region. |
| Post date | 2005/08/15 |
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