Human resources in the mixed ownership reform of Chinese ports: the mediating effects of organizational commitment

In the process of the change to mixed ownership of Chinese ports, the allocation of human resources has become increasingly important because of the workforce’s growing concerns regarding losses of benefits. The mediating effect of organizational commitment in the relationship between person-organization fit and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) can provide a significant reference for port managers and regulators, i.e., the government, regarding the framework of human resource systems. The data examined in this study were collected from three Chinese ports (Qingdao Port, Yantai Port and Rizhao Port) that are in the process of changing to mixed ownership. Structural equation modeling was applied to test the hypotheses. The results show that it is extremely difficult for groups with vested interests in Chinese ports to achieve consistency fit in the short term and to accept potential losses. Moreover, it is imperative to adopt a scientific and efficient person-organization fit mechanism and personnel system to achieve a higher level of fit.     

枢纽辐射式航线结构在海运业中的应用

枢纽辐射航线架构(HSS),既可以为船公司及其船舶运行带来显著的规模经济效益,又可为HSS架构下产生的枢纽中心港口带来规模经济效益,港口城市对的服务数量也大大增加。本研究成果能够解释枢纽港效益、国际航运中心成因、船公司干支线的开辟以及集装箱船舶的大型化等问题。     

对三峡水库水位消落期重庆主城港区通航安全的思考

随着国家推进西部大开发和2020年重庆建成长江上游航运中心的提速,长江上游航运发展迅猛,但重庆主城港区目前的航道条件已不能满足航运发展需要,且由于受长江上游来水和三峡水库水位影响大,每年在＂三区＂（＂库区＂、＂回水变动区＂、＂山区＂）交替中运行,对船舶航行安全造成一定影响。文中通过对三峡水库消落期重庆主城港区通航条件、通航情况、影响通航安全的因素进行分析,提出安全管理的思考。     

第四代港口对中国港口建设的启示

旨在探讨第四代港口对中国港口建设的重要启示,以期为新形势下的中国港口建设提供理论支撑。基于前期研究及联合国贸发会的港口代际发展模型,研究并指出第四代港口是积极主动参与国际经贸决策和组织各类经济活动的前方调度总站,分析了第四代港口的主要特征及其对我国港口建设的重要启示。主要结论是：中国港口建设应大力发展和吸引陆向腹地物流,进一步加强国际航运中心建设以及优化港口布局。     

北京市VMS布局规划设置研究

从北京市交通发展的现状出发,分析VMS（可变情报板,Variable Message Signs）布局设置存在的不足,结合北京市道路建设智能化交通安全管理设施设置指导意见,综合运用节点重要度方法和交通区位线理论,研究并构建VMS布局规划设置优化模型——路段重要度模型,在此基础上研究北京市VMS布局设置规划方案,并为其他城市的VMS规划建设提供参考依据。     

液体化工品运输码头职业病危害调查分析

液体化工品运输码头职业健康管理尚处于起步阶段,为掌握行业从业人员的职业健康现状,提升从业人员职业健康管理水平,以某企业配套液体化工品运输码头为调查对象,根据国家有关职业卫生标准,采用现场职业卫生学调查与工作场所职业病危害因素检测相结合的方法,识别该码头职业病危害因素,检测危害程度,分析职业病致病因素。调查结果表明,该码头职业健康总体情况基本良好,但噪声指标轻微超标,有个别从业人员耳塞佩戴不正确,建议通过改进防护技术、加强行政管理等手段进一步提升码头职业健康管理水平。     

Maritime logistics as an emerging discipline

The evolution of maritime logistics as an emerging discipline has resulted, to a large extent, from the increasing and varied demands of shippers and customers and the rapidly changing role of ports in the context of supply and logistics chains. Scholars are becoming increasingly aware of the need to integrate logistics and supply chain management concepts in the maritime transportation chain and operations. This article aims to provide a review and foundation for understanding the domain of maritime logistics and to assess its potential as an emerging discipline. To do so, a framework for understanding the various aspects of maritime logistics strategy and implementation is developed. A synthesis of the existing knowledge on maritime logistics is done by integrating diverse explorations forming the basis of this framework. We draw upon the literature on maritime transport and ports and primarily theliterature that analyses concepts by adopting an economic or management perspective.     

Advances in port studies: the contribution of 40 years Maritime Policy & Management

Port economics, management and policy have progressively emerged as a distinctive research field, and a core part of maritime economics. This paper provides an analysis of all the 267 port studies published in Maritime Policy & Management (MPM) since its inception in 1973. This paper provides a content analysis for seven interrelated research theme categories including main research topics and methods, authorship distribution and citation counts. It is demonstrated that MPM played, and continues to play, a key role in publishing research on seaports. The published research increasingly applies established analytical frameworks to ports. The paper concludes with a discussion on current challenges for port-related research.     

Overseas trade vis-a-vis overseas shipping: Growth and performance in India (1999–2009)

Maritime trade has been and even continues to account for about a lion's share of India's total cargo volumes. Despite the growth of multimodal transport (by land, water and air), shipping still continues to be the major mode of transport in the bulk carriage of country's overseas trade. In view of this vital role of shipping, in the first four decades of independence, under the initiative of planned development and active government support, India's shipping and port sector saw dramatic growth in their performance to build adequate national fleet, in keeping up with the transport of overseas cargo. However, the onset of economic liberalization in 1991 has given rise to many new dimensions in the development of the shipping and port sector of the country with a significant redefinition of shipping and port services, in response to the new global trend patterns. For instance, it has also established the new era of containerization in the mode of cargo delivery from the dominance of the era of bulk and break-bulk trade during the decade of sixties and seventies. Moreover, as global competition increases, in response to this emerging trade patterns within this country, India's volume of traffic growth also increases manifold. So, India's shipping and port sectors need, significantly, to build up and furnish their capacity by increasing the frequency of this mode of transport i.e. the growth of the national overseas fleet to meet this surging demand. This paper, therefore, have focused on this role of shipping in such rising overseas trade, with a view to examine the shipping performance (the growth of overseas fleet) in response to the growing overseas trade at all ports of India during the period (1999–2000 to 2008–2009), in terms of both a mathematical model and a graphical representation. Finally, it concludes that the absolute overseas trade, being highly import dependent, have led to a more or less stagnant performance in overseas shipping, owing to the lack of the adequate growth of absolute overseas exports during this period.     

举办重大活动时的城市交通管制研究

随着经济的飞速发展,中国日益受到关注和重视,许多国际性的活动选择在中国举行,这给国内许多城市的发展提供了机遇．煞而相对落后的城市交通状况却常常成为这些活动顺利举行的障碍。在总结近年来国内举办的几次有代表性的重大活动管制措施的基础上,提出交通管制的具体方式及注意事项,有助于促进举办重大活动时城市交通管制工作的开展。