Summary
Taiwan is an island country. Its economic structure highly relies on the economy of the foreign trade demand. The goods of foreign trade mainly are transported by the sea. So the development of the ports has a great impact on the competitiveness of the entire country. With the trend of containerization and shipping maximization in the international ocean shipping market in recent years, every harbor faces competitions among domestic ports and challenges from neighboring foreign ports at the same time.
Although the superior geographical location and the wonderful natural condition of Kaohsiung Port once made Kaohsiung the third largest container harbor in the world, it faces severe competitions from Asian-Pacific ports and the new ports in Mainland China, which have emerged in recent years. What¡¦s worse, because of the effect of the overall domestic economy and industrial structure, the ranking of Kaohsiung Port has been on the downgrade continuously: ranked eighth in the world in 2007 and would be possibly even worse as predicted.
Facing the above-mentioned enormous impact, Kaohsiung Port should consider and seek a solution urgently. So this research attempts to analyze the factors of the changes in the volume of goods being transported in Kaohsiung Port, and then frame a strategy for developing the port. The main content in the study includes discussions from three levels: internal condition, external environment condition and regional factors of the port, and the analysis focuses on four aspects: development, structure, efficiency and globalization.
The findings of the study are: the factors resulting in the change in the volume of goods in Kaohsiung Port include the overall economic factors, the container quantity of the transit, the emergence of the continent ports, economic and trade environment, and industrial structure. The strategy for development proposed in this research include to improve the overall economic and trade environment, to boost the increase of the transit containers, to better the facilities of the port and the efficiency of work, to increase incomes from operation and accelerate development of the area, to put emphasis on the linking among ports, global investment and management, to get rid of the excessive attention to world ranking, to advance value added and to plan for port transformation.
In addition, the result of study also shows that since the port entered the fourth generation, relying mainly on containerized transport in 1990, Kaohsiung Port has been transformed slowly with the influence of international economic cultural changes. Now the harbor no longer only emphasizes on transportation but also multi-development, which pays attention to the functions of information management and knowledge economy, so the fifth generation of the port is evolving progressively.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0727108-163007 |
| Date | 27 July 2008 |
| Creators | Hong, Wen-jung |
| Contributors | L-c lee, Wen-Cheng Wang, Tong-po Ho, Yue-shan Chang, jih-wa wu, San-Pui Lam |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0727108-163007 |
| Rights | not_available, Copyright information available at source archive |
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