Effect of shipping aid policies on the competitive advantage of national flagged fleets: Comparison of Taiwan, Korea and Japan

The purpose of this paper is to perform a comparative analysis of the competitive advantages of the national fleets of Taiwan, Korea, and Japan, and explore the effect of shipping aid policies on a national fleet's competitive advantage, employing gray relational analysis (GRA). The authors found that the factors best able to assess the competitive advantage of a national merchant fleet include number of vessels, gross tonnage and deadweight tonnage of the fleet, number of seamen, and cargo volume transported by the fleet. They further discovered that Korean national merchant fleet has the greatest competitive advantage, followed by the fleets of Taiwan and Japan in that order, and found that aggressive shipping aid policies are a more effective way to ensure good performance than passive shipping aid policies.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2014.04.003
• Record URL:
  • http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0967070X14000742
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/oclc/29485010
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission of Elsevier.
• Authors:
  • Yang, Yi-Chih
• Publication Date: 2014-9

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 1-9
• Serial:
  • Transport Policy
  • Volume: 35
  • Issue Number: 0
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0967-070X
  • Serial URL: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/issn/096707X

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Competition; Correlation analysis; Economic factors; Flags of convenience; Policy analysis; Registry; Shipping
• Geographic Terms: Japan; Korea; Taiwan
• Subject Areas: Marine Transportation; Policy; I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01538001
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 24 2014 4:49PM