| Transpacific shipping service is one of the main shipping services all over the world. It is an important gateway of pacific economic rim, and a specific bridge through Asia to North America. Besides the normal characteristics of container transportation, there are many special patterns and features in transpacific shipping. Today, seldom thesis was found to research this area, so it is very necessary to make studies due to the high leading position of transpacific market.This paper is based on characteristics of transpacific shipping, analyzes its market features, and makes forecasting on container volumes of coming years by using three methods which includes time-serious, regression and gray theory. Especially, according to current competition status of transpacific market, it raises many outstanding issues, and discusses the counterproposals in chapter four.Pacific area used to be, and it remains to act as the economic center of this globe, which Asia continent shows as the most important and sensitive part. Although it is deeply influenced by the financial storm since 1997, Asia still becomes the more and more important global economic core, and it will last in the new century. With China's going to join WTO, the share of Asian container transportation will be further enriched. This paper is trying to do some counterproposal studies pointing to main outstanding issues of transpacific market, but due to limited information, it is not able to solve all current problems and needs more theoretical analysis to this particular market in the future.
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