The Container Shipping Market Analysis And Publish Web-based Market Information System Development

As container shipping, the focus of competitions in keen market, is becoming more and more important with its increasing market demand in the approaching era of "synthesis logistics ", it is realistically necessary to conduct an analysis of and research into the container shipping market.In an age of knowledge economy today with information technology at its core, the modernization of shipping information media is the key to the market competition. Hence, the shipping information system should keep pace with the trend of economic globalization, and the information transmitting means must meet the international uniform standards. Consequently, a globally shared shipping information network on the basis of Internet will become the main source of shipping information in the new century. If we utilize the advanced computer and network technology and construct a information providing system on the basis of web database for the container shipping market, it will be a great convenience for the market participants, such as ports, carriers, goods suppliers, etc, to get a necessary information support and a communication platform.In view of the above mentioned, this dissertation is focused on the container shipping market and market information system. It consists of three parts as follows:Part 1. It deals with a general sketch of the container shipping market, the shipping market information and the market information providing system. Then by ways of theories and methods from marketing and industrial economy, an analysis is conducted about the main features of the demand and supply in the container shipping market, operating parties in the market and their economic operations, marketing transactions and their functions, relating market and so on.Part 2. This part concentrates on the analysis of the demand and price index in the container shipping market by means of forecasting and decision technology, and also a fitting forecasting analysis of the container transportation volume in shanghai port and China Export Container Freight Index (CECFI), etc, by means of the multi-elemental dynamic related coefficient and the RBF neural network.Part 3. This part deals with the devising and developing of a container shipping market information system by the use of advanced computer and network technology. It starts with a description of the principle, methods, structure, software platform and developing procedures of the system. Then it gives an analysis of its function and features. In the end, by employing ASP+SQL, a solution is proposed to develop an information providing system for container shipping market-Shipping_compass. com website.