An Analysis of Competitiveness Impacts Resulting from Terminal Operational Manner Changes：Container Terminal ＃4 of Port of Kaohsiung as a case

• Main Authors: Ya-Chu Yang, 楊雅筑
• Other Authors: 郭塗城
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2007
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/01764579188608753713

碩士 === 長榮大學 === 航運管理研究所 === 95 === The falling of port of Kaohsiung in world ranking of container throughput from the third to the sixth has caused the publics’ concern. To rise the competitiveness of port of Kaohsiung becomes a hot issue. As a result, several strategies were proposed. However, the change of operational manner of container terminal, shifting from leasing out one or two berths to leasing out all berths of a terminal as a whole, was not seen in those strategies. In order to prove that the change of operational manner of container terminal extremely influence the competitiveness of port of Kaohsiung , this paper use the Container Terminal #4 as target to analyze the impacts resulting from changes of operational manner of container terminal. The impacts being appraised include the labor cost, the operational achievement, and the operational capacity. The labor cost saving is estimated according to the number and position of workers practically manned in container terminal. The improvement of the operational achievement is calculated by two phases. The first phase is to calculate the achievable records in year of 2005. The second phase is to simulate the operational achievement if all the berths of the Container Terminal #4 is operated as a whole. Then, the improvement of the operational achievement is calculated accordingly. As to the operational capacity, an analysis on the growth of loading/unloading capacity is conducted by using Queueing Theory. This paper reveal that to lease out all berths of a terminal not only save labor cost up to 170 million NT$ yearly but also reduce the average of ship’s waiting time and use the terminal efficiently. And when the level of AWT/AST is less than 50％, the operational capacity will grow up more than 50%. Evidently, to make a change of the operational manner is beneficial to the labor cost, the operational achievement, and the operational capacity.