| With government抯 further reform and open policy, China抯 Container transport market is entering into fast growth stage which could be described as 慗umping Growth??annual growth rate over 30%. Foreign Liner Companies are racing to call at main ports of China and as a result, China抯 container liner market shows disequilibrium of supply and demand which brings unfair competition, frequent and massive fluctuation of the freight rate. China抯 Shipping Lines and shippers have become a big looser because of the keen rate war which has been a real problem in China. Under such circumstances, comes the Freight Rate Filing System in China. It is only four years of trial implementation of Freight Rate Filing System in China, which has its special form and characteristics. In view of keen rate competition of China抯 container market, the original intention to implement Freight Rate Filing System is to regulate the Shipping market rate but in the meanwhile, there is for the first time a public channel of container market rate. It is obvious that Shanghai Shipping Exchange has Succeeded in acting as market rate coordinator though its governmental role in Freight Rate Filing System is still to be argued. For a long time, there has been no container market rate regulation in China and it is meeting the needs of container market management to implement Freight Rate Filing System through which to stabilize container market rate, to normalize market behavior and to maintain authenticity and comprehensiveness of market rate information. Freight Rate Filing System is one of the important measures of China抯 international shipping policy. Both excessive competition and excessive monopolization are contrary to market economy principle. In order to prevent market failure?under market economy condition it is necessary to implement governmental control and intervention. Though the call for global free market is getting stronger day by day, it does not mean that China, a big but not strong shipping country, should totally give up protection. National Shipping policy should reflect in full national interest principle so as to maintain normal, healthy development of national shipping market. It has been eighty years history of Freight Rate Filing System in the United States which is one of the very importation measures to realize shipping policy of the United States. By further analysis it is easy to find out that Freight Rate Filing System is in fact a new type of measure of protective policy. Based on comparative analysis of Freight Rate Filing System in the USA and in China, it is concluded that we could use for reference the practice of Freight Rate Filing System in the United States which has complete operational regulation, strict punishment by way of legal proceedings in order to obtain corresponding policy effect. Though study, the author proposes the following countermeasures: 1. To define policy form of Freight Rate Filing System in China and draw up relevant Shipping act in which Freight Rate Filing System is stipulated in order to bring policy effect of Freight Rate Filing System into full play. To stipulate detailed rules and regulations for Freight Rate Filing System so as to enhance practicality of Freight Rate Filing System in China. 2. To establish relevant organization for shipping rate management and to define t... |
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