International Container Liner Shipping Freight Study

Today, the strength of liner conference has become weak. Entering into the international container transportation market is much easier than before. The competition situation of the international container transportation market has become more and more serious. All the liner carriers have suffered from the low returns and high cost brought by the rate wars. So in order to win the competition, the liner carriers need to find out a new effective method of making freight rates.In this thesis, firstly I expounded the status of the international container transportation market, the situation of the demand and supply in the market, the structure of the market and the fluctuate of the freight rates on the three major liner trade routes . Secondly I put stress on analyzing the correlativity of the factors that influence the liner freight rates to find out one or two key influence factors, finally I introduce the different-price model which can meet various kinds of the different clients' needs to the liner carriers .Kong Xiaosu (transportation planning and management) Directed by Zhao Gang and Gu Weihong...