碩士 / 國立臺灣海洋大學 / 航運管理學系 / 105 / The growth of world trade encourage demands for container transportation along with advances in shipbuilding technology, causing enlargement in sizes of containerships in order to enable shipping lines to reduce operating costs to gain the benefits of the economies of scale. Among the many factors influencing shipping market and freight rates, the supply of capacity and demand of cargoes, according to the principles of supply and demand in economics, are the key factors. This paper uses the statistics from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and Alphaliner with the historical structural approach to analyze the development of supply and demand of container shipping market, focuses on the growth and current statuses of the containership supply in 1996-2016, and to analysis of the container fleet transport capacity supply relative to the Far-East European routes tariff. The results show as below:
1. In point of historical evolution, the demand of cargo transportation is deeply affected by global economic. The TEU capacity growth rate was much larger than the growth rate of the number of vessels. After the global financial crisis in 2008, the developmental trend on the enlargement of world containership became even more obvious.
2. In point of structure analyzing, ships capacity and numbers of container fleet increase rapidly and observably in the global container shipping market, which led to the enlargement of the overall container fleet and the continuing of enlargement. Due to the 2015-2016 market supply and demand unbalance, resulting in direct freights from the European routes straight down, and hit a record low.
Through the study we can see that mega ships are mostly invested in the Far East route, because the capacity supply is too much than demand, if the global market supply and demand are not balance, the market will have a direct and deep impact especially the most significant European routes. These findings can provide as a good reference for the container shipping lines and freight forwarder making operational strategies and guidance.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/105NTOU5301077 |
| Date | January 2017 |
| Creators | Chien, Miau-Shan, 簡妙珊 |
| Contributors | Chung, Cheng-Chi, Su, Yuh-Ling, 鍾政棋, 蘇育玲 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 57 |
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