Ports have a key role in facilitating trade, playing a critical interface between sea and land based transportation. They are essential parts of international supply chain networks. Considering the strategic importance of ports, there is a need to evaluate strategic leadership perspectives of port management in this chain. The purpose of the study is to analyze the strategic leadership perceptions of top managers in Turkish private ports and to evaluate their main motives for giving importance to strategic leadership at port management. The study used a three-round Delphi technique to collect data. A questionnaire was conducted among 12 top managers at nine private ports in Turkey between March and August, 2014. Most of the private ports included in the sample are the members o f TURK LIM (Port Operators Association of Turkey) and their major is containerized cargo. The findings presented here indicate that there is an increasing need for strategic leadership characteristics of top managers of private ports. The findings reveal that it is critical for top managers of Turkish private ports to have strategic leadership qualifications for such reasons as customer loyalty, human resource management and turn over rate, international integration of ports and volatile market conditions in shipping business.
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