earticle

영어

In this study, strategies in developing ports’ hinterlands are suggested as one of the ways to strengthen the port’s competitiveness by utilizing O-D analysis of recent 10 years’ data for ports of Busan, Incheon and Gwangyang. The results of this study are as follows. First, in the analysis of overall trade structure of Korea, 185 trading countries were identified with average volumes of 128,000 TEU. The volumes were increased by about 1.5 times during recent 10 years and three countries, that is, China, USA and Japan, accounted for more than 60% of the total volumes. Second, the results in analyzing each port’s trade structure with trading countries and ports demonstrated that Busan Port has similar trade structure with the Korean overall maritime trade. Besides, Brazil, India, Vietnam and Chile were the trading countries with an average annual growth rate of over 10%. The trade structure of Incheon Port was highly concentrated in China followed by Vietnam. In addition, UAE, India and Columbia were the main trading countries of Gwangyang Port showing annual growth rate of over 10%. Considering the overall results, it is essential to develop and operate each port’ hinterlands specialized in each trading country, region as well as relevant firms.