厦门东南国际航运中心发展高端航运服务业策略研究

在信息技术不断发展的今天,国际航运服务业总体正在由劳动密集型的航运服务业向知识密集型的高端航运服务业转变,一些世界级大港开始转变发展方式,转向具有高附加值的高端航运服务业。在厦门积极建设东南国际航运中心的大背景下,高端航运服务业的发展变得非常必要。文中考察分析厦门发展高端航运服务业的必要性,借鉴国内外发展经验,分析其存在的不足之处,并提出构建厦门高端航运服务业的发展策略。     

航运高端服务业的内涵及其发展启示

航运高端服务业的发展水平在很大程度上代表了国际航运中心的全球竞争力。文章通过对服务业相关文献的回顾,对航运高端服务业的内涵从多个角度进行了界定,并根据伦敦航运高端服务业的发展状况,提出上海发展航运高端服务业的重要环节。特别是结合国际金融中心发展航运金融业务。     

推进南京下关航运服务业集聚区建设

为顺应现代港口城市转型升级、区域服务业特色化发展、区域产业结构优化调整等要求,有效发挥产业集群效应,通过分析航运服务业集聚区特征及南京市下关区建设航运服务集聚区的必要性和可行性,认为建设航运服务业集聚区有利于集聚航运服务资源,形成强大的集聚效应和辐射效应,是整合服务功能、提高航运服务效率、突出现代航运服务特色、规范航运管理的有效途径,也是发展现代航运服务业的重要平台,提出建设下关航运服务业集聚区的建议。     

对深圳发展高端航运服务业的思考

为加快深圳航运衍生服务发展,阐述高端航运服务业的概念,从产业转型升级、与香港共建国际航运中心、先行先试和创新机制等3个方面分析深圳发展高端航运服务业的宏观背景,在此基础上从国际经验和发展机理视角探讨深圳高端航运服务业的发展策略,认为深圳应从发展交易结算服务、联合香港发展细分市场、大力引进人才和探索集群式模式入手发展高端航运服务业.     

上海高端航运服务业在危机中破题

"金融危机对航运业冲击较大的是低端航运服务业,对高端航运服务业的影响并不大",参加"2009上海国际航运高端沦坛"的代表们对此形成了共识,当前中国的航运产业主要集中在产业链的低端环节,而高端航运服务业十分滞后.积极拓展航运产业链,发展知识密集程度高、利润贡献度大、辐射面广,国际影响力强的高端航运服务业,应成为中国航运发展谋求的新亮点.     

现代航运服务业人才的内涵和特征

为使高等院校尤其是海事类高等院校能够围绕我国产业转型发展的需要培养更多能够成为现代航运服务业人才的毕业生,从梳理现代航运服务业衍生的国内外背景出发,定义现代航运服务业,阐述现代航运服务业人才的内涵与特征,分析我国目前航运人才的现状,指出加强现代航运服务业人才培养和供给的必要性和紧迫性。     

强化我国航运中心软实力建设

加快我国航运中心建设,发展现代航运服务业需系统、深入审视我国基础和优势,判断和把握航运市场的机会与挑战,这是现代航运服务业的发展水平,是航运＂软实力＂的集中体现。     

上海辅助类航运服务业发展现状评价及对策建议

本文首先对上海辅助类航运服务业的发展水平进行了描述,对不同业务的发展现状进行了分析研究,对上海市辅助类航运服务业进行总体评价。在此基础上,本文提出了上海辅助类航运服务产业的建设路径,对上海航运服务业的发展提出了相关对策建议。     

我国航运服务业发展建议

航运服务业是航运主业的重要支撑,是一国由海运大国走向海运强国的保证。经过改革开放逾30年的发展,我国港口基础设施和船队总体规模均达到世界领先水平;但我国的航运服务业发展相对滞后,阻碍我国向海运强国的全面转型。为尽快提升我国航运服务业的发展水平,     

现代航运服务业的内在机理与发展政策

<正>一、现代航运服务业的形成机理与内涵1.国际航运中心与现代航运服务业的发展现代航运服务业的概念源于人们对国际航运中心的研究,从国际航运中心的定义来看,各种与国际航运相关的要素涵盖了航运中心     

上海航运金融发展:体系建设与制度创新

作为现代服务业的一部分,航运金融的发展顺应了经济增长方式转变和结构转型的战略方向,也是巩固上海航运枢纽地位和提高核心竞争力的重要保证。与发达国家或地区相比,中国的航运金融业起步较晚,规模较小,缺乏先发优势,因此在集聚航运金融资源和提升航运金融服务层级时,面临的最大障碍就是体系的不健全和制度安排与国际通行标准的脱节。思考和研究具有长远战略性的上海航运金融体系建设和制度创新是当务之急。     

上海国际航运中心应发力“软件”集群

综观国际经验,现代航运服务业的发展不是仅靠投资拉动的,而主要是靠产业集群效应所推动,航运服务技术、产品、市场通过产业集群的方式产生聚集效应。世界著名的国际航运中心也都是著名的国际航运服务中心,它们不仅具有完善的航运服务体系和健全的航运市场,而且有服务于航运业的信息系统,对航运业的发展起到了促进作用。     

The Nigerian shipping industry and indigenous shipping companies

The shipping industry in Nigeria since the early 1990s has been experiencing a continuous disastrous downturn. Nigerian shipping companies' participation in international shipping has continued to be very limited. Their presence and impact is hardly felt in the world's shipping industry. Both the national carriers (that is shipping companies with national carrier status) and other indigenous private shipping companies have vessel as well as management problems. These problems have led to the poor performance of the Nigerian shipping industry for over a decade now. The carriers in the industry are not attaining for the country the gains that are supposed to emanate from shipping. This paper points out the importance of shipping to a nation, identifies the problems the country's shipping companies are facing and proffers solutions that include merging of the companies to have strong financial standing and a competitive edge.     

邮轮产业——上海国际航运中心建设新的增长领域

全球邮轮市场客源年均增长率达到7%,邮轮产业对地方经济有强大影响力,已成为21世纪极具发展潜力的朝阳产业。上海具有发展邮轮产业的地理、区域优势,并且具备良好的基础设施条件,是国际航运中心建设的重要组成部分,且发展势头日益迅猛,并将成为上海国际航运中心建设新的增长领域。     

Strategic alliances in container liner shipping

The economic crisis in the years between 2008 and 2010 has demonstrated the necessity for substantial adjustments on behalf of container lines. Capacities were shifted quickly to emerging and less affected markets allowing a faster recovery of globally organized companies. This paper illustrates the dynamics in the container shipping market. Alongside the main characteristics of the Top 20 ocean shipping companies, liner services are described. These services are classified by geographic coverage and vessel deployment. In addition, this paper provides a better understanding of the collaboration among service providers. Starting from a general framework of co-operative liner services, in-depth analyses of the global alliances in liner shipping are obtained. These formations - Grand Alliance, New World Alliance and CKYH Alliance - are compared with alternative forms of collaboration in the liner shipping industry. The analysis of alliance announcements which are related to operational and strategic changes indicates that the “global alliances” cannot be regarded as closed corporate-like entities. In effect, service agreements are not only negotiated with the focal members of the specific alliance. Instead, every service is arranged individually and under specific conditions. By understanding the dynamics within alliances, we are able to develop an assessment relating to the stability of collaborations. Ultimately, these insights direct us to several paths for future research.     

Kiribati seafarers and German container shipping

This article discusses the employment of Kiribati seafarers on German owned and flagged shipping. The authors examine the origins of the German shipping industry sponsored training and recruitment programmes on the Kiribati atolls. The implications of the creation of a manorial ‘internal’ labour market for German container shipping in the South West Pacific is assessed. The impact of labour participation in the international shipping industry on Kiribati's former fisherfolk is also examined.     

Management and labour in shipping: A role for co-operatives

The employment and management policies of the shipping industry are in legal and administrative confusion. The shipping industry is struggling with an unworkable global governance based on flag state sovereignty and a sanctionless international regulatory regime. Seafarers suffer most from this state of affairs, but so do the shipping industry’s public image. Few co-operatives of maritime workers exist in national or international shipping. A new employment theory is long overdue. Human centred management policies can only attain their full potential through co-operative or mutual associations. This paper describes the application of enlightened and socially conscious management principles to the shipping industry. Seafarers’ co-operatives are the future organisational building blocks of the shipping industry. Co-operatives can rescue maritime workers from developing countries from exploitation and the debilitating effects of casual labour by providing “all in one” seagoing and shore based professional careers. Seafarers’ co-operatives can solve the shipping industry’s maritime training and education problems. The seven universal principles of co-operative management will guide shipping management in setting human centred objectives that command respect of those who come in contact with the shipping industry.     

The perception and image of shipping

The image of the shipping industry plays a vital role in developing maritime transport as a major future, sustainable transport alternative. In particular, it is crucial to understand the image the shipping industry has among young people and the anatomy of the concept in order to be able to effectively promote careers in shipping, to cultivate shipping as an attractive labour market and to develop attractive educational programmes. The focus of this paper is the image of the shipping industry. This study reports on the findings of a large-scale survey of the image of shipping- and image-related concepts among upper secondary school pupils in Sweden, Norway and Greece. We define and analyse empirically by means of multivariate statistical analysis the anatomy of the image concept. We identify various image dimensions, estimate how young people rate the shipping industry along these dimensions and estimate their relative importance to young people who are planning their future careers. The results from this study can be used as a base for describing and explaining the images that young people have of the shipping industry. Such knowledge is fundamental for deriving and developing constructive strategies to promote careers in shipping, to adapt shipping to the expectations of young people and to develop creative and relevant educational programmes. Finally, understanding the image of shipping among young people is important not only for the shipping industry, but for other stakeholders as well, such as ship-owners associations, trade associations, labour unions, transport authorities and administrations and policy makers at the national and supra-national level.     

Green shipping practices and firm performance

Global economic development is facilitated by the commercial shipping industry. Shipping operations contribute to the growth of international trade activities, which heavily count on ships to carry cargoes from places of production to places of consumption. Despite its importance, there have been growing concerns about the environmental impacts caused by shipping activities in international trade. To balance environmental protection and productivity, many shipping firms have begun to adopt green shipping practices (GSPs) to improve their operations in a more environmentally friendly manner. GSP consists of six dimensions, namely, company policy and procedure (CPP), shipping documentation (SD), shipping equipment (SE), shipper cooperation (SC), shipping materials (SM), and shipping design and compliance (SDC). GSP is becoming an important aspect of shipping operations. It is timely for the shipping industry to evaluate firm capability in carrying out greening operations, that is, firms’ “greening” capability. Firm capability comprises two key elements: one is embedded in firms’ business routines or activities, and the other concerns firms’ ability in transforming inputs into outputs. GSPs can be considered as inputs while firm performance measures as outputs. This study uses an input/output approach to examine the greening capability (GC) of shipping firms. The results indicate that shipping firms are relatively weak in the practices of SC and SE, while the capability scores of SM, CPP, SDC, and SD are all close to 1, with an average score of 0.927, 0.920, 0.924, and 0.978, respectively. Academic and managerial significance of the findings are highlighted.     

Evolution and research trends of container shipping

The shipping industry was transformed by the expansion of international trade and technological innovation, notably containerization, since the 1960s. Accordingly, this was followed by a significant increase in research addressing different aspects of container shipping. Despite such availability, important questions have remained unanswered: what are the major contributions that the research community has made to the container shipping industry, global and regional economies? Have their contributions been skewed towards particular themes, directions, and geographical areas? What can the shipping research community learn from the evolution and trends of container shipping research so that they can continue to contribute to the well-being of the global and regional economies? To address these questions, the paper undertakes a critical review and analysis on the evolution and trends of research in container shipping in the past four decades, based on a collection of 282 papers investigating different topics in container shipping featuring in major scholarly journals between 1967 and 2012. The study enables the shipping research community to enhance self-understandings and identifies major gaps for further research.