Abstract
The opening of the Inchon International Airport brings on a rapid change in the air cargo market and the customer's needs in Korea. This paper has two major purposes ; one is to find out problems of Korean air cargo industry's structure in the future owing to the opening of the Inchon International Airport, and the other to provide a solution of these problems by efficient use of air cargo facilities in the Kimpo Airport.
This paper performs, therefore, (1) to examine current status of Korean air cargo industry focusing on freight forwarders and various expected logistics structural problems between the Kimpo Airport and the Inchon International Airport; (2) to identify the difference in air cargo facilities and systems of well-developed foreign countries as a case study; (3) to give shape to a plan for the efficient and practical use of air cargo facilities in Kimpo Airport.
As a result, it seems reasonable that cargo facilities in the Kimpo Airport uses as the 'Air Cargo Complex' to support the Inchon International Airport.