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“Globalization-natural, too natural evolution”
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~“Globalization-natural, too natural evolution”

by Mrs. Lee Bong-Soon
Team Leader of Internet Management, Pusan East Container Terminal Co., Ltd. (PECT) Port of Pusan

The most interesting thing in our lives is that there is a common thing inevitably happened to any individual, any organization, any industry regardless of races, cultures, industries, countries, etc. As we’re fully aware of it, it is “change”. Change of millennium, geopolitical change, change also in the organization of the globalization phenomenon has become substantially more perceptible over the last five years.

The world trade with rapid “change” is being now driven by macroeconomics and unpredictable with regard to specific volumes of specific goods from specific places. Best estimates are only that sea trade will treble by 2020. I believe that it does not really the same whether trade is increasing or decreasing. We only know that we have to have the agility to respond to “change” in order to survive in the ever-changing business environment.

So what will be the impact on global logistics? It is expected that market globalizations and integrate global supply chains will be more developed. Information along the global supply chain will be also paramount for success.

Cooperation, not competition

Impact on our port industry is that many ports and terminals are rapidly moving from engineering based business to multi-functional based one to achieve customer-oriented cost-savings and operational efficiencies. Many ports used to be not afraid of puffing themselves up, promotion that they are the best, often to the detriment or the denigration of the other. But now many port people think that we should have a good turning point to cooperate and work with each other much more, especially in East Asia. Rather than competing against each counterpart, “united front” by Asian Ports would bring more economic benefits to all of east Asia.

Impact on shipping is there is a need for container lines to be more profitable. This results in bigger ships, faster ships, cutting agents and particularly mergers and acquisitions. The British carrier of P&O was merged with the Dutch carrier of Nedlloyd. What is now P&O Nedllod also joined the alliance that consists of Hapag-Llloyd, OOCL, NYK to cooperate on both ocean shipping services and terminal operations. The long anticipated takeover of US carrier of Sea=Land by Denmark’s Maersk marks the beginning of a new era for container shipping as the world’s first true mega=carrier is formed. The another US carrier of APL was also merged with the Singaporean carrier of NOL. The merges were happened in the past two years beyond the national boundaries in order to get the competitive advantages and to be re-created as a truly global company. We can expect continual announcements of yet more partnerships, mergers and acquisitions across the global logistics marketplace.

The globalizations by merging with competitors beyond the national boundaries are so natural evolutions that make sense of me. E-business, E-trade, alliances together with mergers are our current business world and challenges. It goes without saying that being globalized is so essential in all its aspects to get added business and its growth opportunity.

I joined EUCCK Pusan Chapter as a member last year and am fiding that EUCCK is truly globalized organization. Whether British, German, French, Korean or any nationalities, of all industries and all cultures can meet, exchange views, obtain information, define a moint political line, build global culture and gain business of global scale. I have experienced many opportunities to achieve tremendous way to harmonize the western approach with the easten approach through our EUCCK meetings.

I wish that EUCCK will utilize its own strength of natural evolution globalization and enable us to keep building valuable insingts on the grends that are about to unfold in the new millennium. A way to measure worldwide success are you global?

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