Research On China Coastal Container Transportation Market & Problem Of Containership Size

Our country has run domestic coastal container transportation earlier than international container transportation, but its development experienced many difficulties, even stopped. It is mainly caused by slow development of national economic, lack of capital etc.Recently, along with domestic economy persistent stabilize develop, domestic coastal container transportation have rising very much. The speed of the quantity of container transportation growing is more than the quantity of foreign trade container. Most shipping company add ship to operate the domestic coastal container liner, most large ports have begun to pay attention to the development, and invest to build domestic container customized dock and handling equipment. Our shippers know domestic coastal container transportation more, and choose shipping instead of rail or road. With its development for several years, our domestic container transportation has become the "T" transportation network. It contains the shipping liner services from the Dalian of north to Haikou of south and the shipping liner service connecting the coast and Changjiang River, and Shanghai as the center.First, my paper summarizes the background and meaning of my research;second, it analyses the related content of our domestic coastal container transportation, including the developing history, market trait, supplying ships and cargo of actuality;third, introducing the factors that affect the development and the trend of our domestic coastal container transportation;fourth, analyzing quantificationally the problems that how the shipping companies choose the containership's size with nonlinear objective program model when they want to enter this market and give the shipping companies some advice;finally, giving a conclusion.