Recent Development in Technologies for Short Sea Shipping and its Implications

Dae-Won, Seo; Jung-O, Ko; Seung-Hee, Lee

Journal of Navigation and Port Research 2012;36(10):883-888.
Published online December 31, 2012.

근해운송시스템의 기술 분야별 개발 현황 및 시사점

서대원, 고정오, 이승희

Recent Development in Technologies for Short Sea Shipping and its Implications

Seo Dae-Won, Ko Jung-O, Lee Seung-Hee

Abstract

Recently, the logistics industry in Asia is growing rapidly mostly with Chinese economic development. A variety of studies have been carried out to reduce the logistic cost under the situation that the global freight traffic continues to increasing. The Short Sea Shipping(SSS) system, a multi modal transport system centered around coastal shipping to realize high value-added logistics, achieved considerable success in EU. To implement the SSS system in Korea, it is necessary to develop the various essential technologies related to development of efficient ships and port facilities, including equipment for loading and unloading containers, operating and managing systems for freight terminals and technologies for tracking and securing containers. The present paper focuses on the survey of the current essential technologies available for implementation of the SSS system and suggests the direction of future development in the technologies.

Key Words: Short sea shipping;multimodal transport;container terminal;ship development;port development