Assessment criteria for global logistics hub ports in Northeast Asia

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A global logistics hub port refers to a port in a strategic location at the intersection of major trunkand feeder systems, where there is a logistics park or free trade zone in the port hinterland toprovide integrated value-added logistics services in addition to traditional port functions. Thispaper explores global logistics hub port assessment criteria, and compares the competitiveness ofthree major international ports in Northeast Asia, namely the ports of Busan, Tokyo, andKaohsiung, from a logistics perspective. This paper employed a hybrid decision-makingapproach incorporating the analytical hierarchy process (AHP) and gray relational analysis(GRA). A total of 20 assessment criteria under the five dimensions of political-economicenvironment, operating environment, cost environment, infrastructure facilities environment, andpreferential incentive environment were determined. The AHP results showed that, from theperspective of all respondents, the top five assessment criteria were t

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