KMI International Journal of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries

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KMI International Journal of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries is a peer-review international journal of ocean policy studies and marine data analytics. It offers researchers, analysts and policymakers a unique combination of legal, political, social and economic analyses. The journal covers international, regional and national marine policies; management and regulation of marine activities including fisheries, ports and logistics; marine affairs, which encompass the topics of marine pollution and conservation as well as use of marine resources. This journal is published biannually in June and December by the Korea Maritime Institute.
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Jun 30, 2022

Recent Patterns of Competition and Co-operation among Major Container Ports in Asia: An Implication for Busan

Satya Sahoo, Dong-Wook Song

KMI Int. J. Marit. Aff. Fish. 2022;14(1):1-28.
https://doi.org/10.54007/ijmaf.2022.14.1.1

Seaports are crucial for regional development as they offer an employment to adjacent societies through industrialisation and value-added services. Since Asia has become a manufacturing hub for the world economy with a large volume of exports and imports, this paper investigates the trading pattern of container line services for three major ports in Asia: that is, Shanghai, Singapore and Busan. Ports compete and co-operate with neighbouring ports in the region to generate the greater throughputs and subsequently creat economic values. Utilising...
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Jun 30, 2022

Mega Vessels – Mega Error?

Ulrich Malchow

KMI Int. J. Marit. Aff. Fish. 2022;14(1):29-54.
https://doi.org/10.54007/ijmaf.2022.14.1.29

Does it actually make sense to further increase the size of Ultra Large Container Ships from the shipping line’s perspective? Is possibly the opposite of what the growth in size is actually supposed to achieve experienced with the current ship sizes? These questions are followed up on the basis of some fundamental geometric and physical considerations, whereby the focus is on the effects of the longer port stays of the ever larger ships. Based on proportionalities a simple equation for a Fuel/TEU Indicator is introduced to determine the optim...
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Jun 30, 2022

Influence of Structural Variation of Container Shipping Industry towards Ocean Freight Forwarders

Hua-An Lu, Li Xuan Wu

KMI Int. J. Marit. Aff. Fish. 2022;14(1):55-76.
https://doi.org/10.54007/ijmaf.2022.14.1.55

The industry of container shipping lines (CSLs) has undergone a substantial structural change recently, including the withdrawal of CSLs and reshuffling for strategic alliances. Previous research was limited on the influence of an industrial restructure of CSLs towards the operations of ocean freight forwarder (OFF) companies. This study used the similarity aggregation method (SAM) to complement this gap from a survey of 50 OFFs with varied experiences in Taiwan. The results revealed that OFFs paid more attention to the rights and obligations f...
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Jun 30, 2022

Effect of Abnormal Earnings on Earnings Persistence: The Case of Shipping and Shipbuilding Industry

Yohan An

KMI Int. J. Marit. Aff. Fish. 2022;14(1):77-90.
https://doi.org/10.54007/ijmaf.2022.14.1.77

Even though shipping and shipbuilding industries have been one of the leading industries in Korea, both industries have been suffered a long dark period since the global financial crisis 2008. In particular, since both industries are more sensitive to economic fluctuations than other industries, stable earnings are an important factor in stakeholders’ economic decision-making. This study investigates the difference of earnings persistence between shipping and shipbuilding industry using Ohlson’s model. Empirical results show that earnings p...
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Jun 30, 2022

Ropax Short-Sea Shipping and Covid-19 Pandemic: Case of Finland

Olli-Pekka Hilmola

KMI Int. J. Marit. Aff. Fish. 2022;14(1):91-114.
https://doi.org/10.54007/ijmaf.2022.14.1.91

Traveling was constantly growing among European Union (EU) countries before Covid-19 pandemic. In many coastal regions, passenger and freight transportation were tied together with roll-on/roll-off passenger (ropax) ferries. However, since the pandemic started, the passenger side of ropax operations has been under numerous new restrictions, bans and requirements. These have changed rather much during the pandemic era in Finland, creating more distortion and profound volume loss. In 2020, governmental support mechanisms were implemented to avoid...

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