Recently international shipping and logistics business environments have changed rapidly due to economy crisises in Europe and USA and big paradigm shifting would be happened at not only parts of their industries but also other business.
Shipping lines and terminal have done their best to survive these global depressions by improving productivities and removing unnecessary costs.
Shipping lines have deeply considered terminal productivity, efficiency and costs, when they decide terminal assignments.
Now, terminals in Busan ports are meeting severe competition with other Korean ports' terminals and other inter Asia countries' terminals to become Hub ports.
So we need to have clear productivity methodology and find out how to improve productivity. Many studies were already conducted and many works were already done. However productivity tool and methodologies must be updated and reflected basis on latest needs or interests.
This paper carried out by reviewing various factors and formulas to calculate terminal productivities from previous studies and use actual example (337 vessels / over 3,000 TEU) and made scenarios in order to prove the connection between productivities and CI (Crane intensity).
Terminal productivity monitoring items and formulas including crane intensity are very necessary and important to enhance productivity itself and efficiency, because they should help what factors would affected to terminal productivities positively or negatively.