碩士 / 國立臺灣海洋大學 / 航運管理學系 / 95 / In the highly competitive shipping industry, the shipping companies usually flag their vessels to nations with less restricted regulations in order to reduce operation costs and avoid restrictions imposed on shipping operations, such as hiring of seafarers, tax burden and mandated vessel standards, etc. Nowadays, flagging out has become one of the important operation strategies for shipowners. Although some literature have discussed the practice of and reasons for vessel flagging out, there is a lack of systematic and quantified analysis, nor a differentiation between different shipping markets. This study adopts Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and ANOVA method to analyze in detail the influence factors of vessel registration of Taiwan’s containerships, due to the total fleet of Taiwan’s containerships has play a significant role in the global shipping industry. In order to understand the degree of influence of the related factors upon the vessel registration of Taiwan container shipping companies, this study develops a hierarchical analysis framework with four different objectives, including ‘Dealing with government policy’, ‘Improving operation conditions’, ‘Reducing operating costs’ and ‘Adopting to market environments’, and thirteen relevant criteria to evaluate the issue. Study results indicate that ‘Reducing operating costs’ is most important among the four objectives, followed by ‘Adopting to market environments’ and ‘Improving operation conditions’. Among the thirteen evaluation criteria ‘Restriction of the operation region’ is the most important, followed by ‘Openness of the domestic market’, ‘Source of hiring seafarers’, ‘Cost of seafarers’ and ‘Tax burden’.
Regarding with locations of vessel registration, this study also adopts analytic hierarchy process (AHP) to quantify analysis on the preference of locations of vessel registration for containership corporations in Taiwan; then further discusses that whether the shipping corporations of various attribution have different preference. Finally, it adjusts the weights of evaluation objective to find out the effect on option of locations of vessel registration for containership corporations by sensitivity analysis. Study results indicate that open registers, such as Panama and Liberia, are the most preference of locations of vessel registration for containership corporations in Taiwan, followed by states or regions of the quasi-FOC, such as Hong Kong and Singapore; then other traditional maritime countries and Taiwan are the final options of locations of vessel registration for containership corporations.
It is expected that the findings of this study is helpful for shipping companies and government agencies in making relevant decisions.
Key words: Containerships, Vessel registrations, Flagging out, Flag of convenience, Analytic Hierarchy Process
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/095NTOU5301027 |
| Date | January 2007 |
| Creators | Yu-Lin Wong, 黃玉玲 |
| Contributors | Cheng-Chi Chung, 鍾政棋 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 97 |
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