Analyses of Key Influential Factors in Shippers’ Decisions among Ocean Freight Forwarders and Containers Shipping Lines / 託運人選擇海運承攬業者與貨櫃航商關鍵影響因素之分析

碩士 / 國立臺灣海洋大學 / 航運管理學系 / 98 / Taiwan is an island country. There are very few resources from nature mother, all people’s livelihood are all rely on inbound trade, and all products manufactured here would need great transport functionalities to reach worldwide buyers. Therefore by means of ocean transportation has become substantially import, ocean transport has covered the criteria of long hall, safety, mass payload and economical in costs. Even though with massive undertaken aviation transportation upon, ocean transportation is still the main mode by all means most important in Taiwan outbound trade.
Carrier, who offered transportation by sea/water, mainly composed by ocean freight forwarders and container shipping lines. For a long time, these two entities are having very sensational relationship with each other; they are switching between customer relationship, collaboration partners, or even friendly competitors.
In nowadays, ocean transportation is a mature market, taking part of the rapidly changing global situation, connecting with economical resection in Q3 2008, the old scheme in win-win situation between ocean freight forwarders and container shipping lines has become a hard battle in fighting for shippers. Neverthless, the competition between these two, has benefited in cost down issue also improved in service standard. Therefore it is a very important decision in how to select between ocean freight forwarders and container shipping lines with important key element of service factors in this research. All the researchs in the past, have only reached individually for ocean freight forwarders and container shipping lines, has not covered further dept for key elements or the connections between key influential factors. So this research has quoted from Fuzzy Delphi method to discuss the importance of key attributes, also quoted the decision making and trial evaluation laboratory, DEMATEL, to analyze the consequence between key influential factors. The new discoveries in this research are as follows:

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:TW/098NTOU5301073
Date January 2010
CreatorsYi-Ming Chen, 陳顗民
ContributorsCheng-Chi Chung, 鍾政棋
Source SetsNational Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan
Languagezh-TW
Detected LanguageEnglish
Type學位論文 ; thesis
Format80

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