Container Ship Maximization And The Relevant Influence To The Port

With the steady development of international economy and international trade, containerized transport will increase by a large margin in the future. The market demand of containerized transport is increasing constantly;the maximization trend of the container ship is obvious. Container ship maximization has all brought enormous influence on the liner Ship Company and container port. In the face of the fierce competitive market, the company's constant increase the scale of container ship, in the hope of getting the scale effect of shipping maximization, occupying the advantage position in the market competition. With the maximization of ship, the competition of the world container pivot harbor is fiercer, on one hand ultra and large-scale container ship can only berth port, which condition of depth of water, efficiency of load and unload and management level is qualified;on the other hand, for pursuing scale economic benefits, the liner ship company choose less ports to berth. Pearson (1998) draws the conclusion, "no matter what ship type it is, with the increase of the scale of ship, the hipping cost of every load ton or every case is reduced ". Jansen and Shearson (1987) point out, adopt bigger container ship mean "large-scale production of shipping take at sea, and its scale uneconomically receives in the harbor."This text begins to analyze the current situation of containerized transport market, the developing history of container ship and current situations and trends of container ship maximization in detail , think that with the fast development of container transports and more and more fierce competition of international containerized transport, every large container liner carrier in the world ,under the enormous competition pressure, accelerate the process and promotion of international containerized transport shipping maximization.This text continues to demonstrate the motive force of ship maximization of containerized transport - -Scale effect. Have analyzed and researched several limiting factors which influenced the effect of scale effect of ship maximization, the text think the of ship maximization is restricted by a lot of factors, the most important factor is the loading and unloading efficiency of the port, that is to say that scale effect can't realize unless the port's efficiency of loading and unloading, management level is high.From the development history of the container port's function and the formed mechanism of container shipping transports system, the text analyzes the container ship maximization's influence of transports system adjustment. Last the text put forward own ideas on how to plan the port overall arrangement and develop the container pivot harbor.