2004 Volume 16 Issue 1 Pages 61-72
A port logistics field in Japan needs to aim at "realization of the service and cost level which is internationally equal to other countries " and needs to recover the competitive power in the international port market. A super hub port design is taken as a measure of the hardware and the promotion of deregulation and introduction of electronic data interchange (EDI) to port procedure is taken as a measure of the software. In these circumstances port logistics companies are required to deal with these change to survive.
The purpose of this paper is to clarify the specific entrepreneur consciousness about a port transportation problem and countermeasures, and to support for what policy should be taken for the policy realization towards in the future. A questionnaire is carried out to about 1000 companies of Japanese port transportation enterprise. The analysis shows that the port transportation enterprises think that the classifications are as same as the hypotheses that we have supposed. It turns out that "Reduction in a job volume" and "A dumping demand" are thought as important problem, and "Differentiation in a related business field" and "Correspondence to deregulation" are thought as important countermeasures. And, the difference of consciousness by the enterprise in the five major ports and local ports become clear. The enterprise in the five major ports think "A dumping demand" as important problem, and these in local ports think "Correspondence to deregulation" as important countermeasures.
