Study On Operation Of LPG Carrier

With rapid development of economy and people's strength consciousness of environmental protection, the demand of energy resources and consumption structure is confronted with great adjust in China. Entering 21 century, the demand of LNG, LPG and other clean energy resources is increasing day by day. Domestic energy resources face serious shortage, requiring import complement. Additionly, LPG producing and consumption area is imbalance. All these factors push LPG carrier transportation develop quickly in recent years. Above is the thesis' background, it mainly discusses how to manage LPG carrier and the different strategy to deal with various market.The paper separates into six chapters. It briefs LPG cargos and LPG carriers in chapter 1. Chapter 2 analyzes original place of LPG and its mainly itinerary. Chapter 3 expatiates the LPG market environment and supply-demand relationship, adopting suitable math-models to forecast market. Chapter 4, the mainly part of the paper, It introduces different management strategy and how to evade the risk when LPG carriers face different circumstances. Chapter 5 that adopts technological economics method to calculate NPV, IRR and return time of investment and provides reasonable basis for fleet' s planning. Then, this paper proposes suggestion for LPG market and fleet development and shipping company reference in the situation of China entered into WTO.