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Competition in Port Management and Development

Ali Gökhan ESİN

A seaport has been defined as a terminal and an area within which ships are loaded and/or discharged of cargo and includes the usual places where ships wait for their turn or are obliged to wait for their turn no matter the distance from that area. Usually, it has no interface with other forms of transport and in so doing provides connecting services (Branch, 1986). According to definition above ports are a service industry, where any activity or benefit that one party can offer to another that is essentially intangible and does not result in the ownership of anything (Kotler & Armstrong, 1996). The quality of service provided by port depends on the location of port, time and cost efficiency of handling, inland network, security and other services such as pilotage, bunkering and so on.

Definition of port management shows that labour and public relations need to be developed and should be kept a constant lookout for prospects of commercial expansion of the port’s business (The Nautical Institute, 1988). Any port development project requires that port authorities should take into consideration economic and technical aspects, environmental and pollution prevention. Thus the port in the marketing sense is referred to as the whole area where the port community lives, which includes all activities in the port area or relevant to port production (Somers and De Wilde, unknown).

In the light of port development and management, the purpose of this assignment is to examine the importance of long-term relationships between the port authority and ship owners, port employees, local communities and port networking.