Liner Transport Market Prospects Of Asia-North America

Asia-North America container lane is an important trade channel between them as well as one of the largest lanes all over the world. This line is the main campaign of liner companies, and the performance of it is a key indicator which reflects enterprise strength. Asia-North America container market is affected by American Economy. Transport volume and freight in the marked had dropped dramatically as American Economy decayed and financial crisis break out.Studies on Asia-North America container lane before have gotten behind the status, the changes and phenomena can not be explained by them. Therefore, under the circumstances of financial crisis, deep analysis and reasonable forecast of Asia-North America container market have good values of research.This paper collects latest data and analyzes the market thoroughly, based the configuration and property of the market. Then Regression and Time Series are adopted to forecast trade and capacity. It can be seen from the results that the market is recovering in 2010 and probably show the same trend as period before crisis in 2011 or 2012. In the end of the article some suggestions are given as fellow:although the prospects of market are positive, operators should be wary to expand capacity because there are still uncertain factors; management should be improved to deal with the changes in the market; pool can be achieved in the urgent situation to reduce risks.