The Research Of Empty Repositioning In Container Transportation Company Along Yangtze River

Empty repositioning is one of the most important part of container management, it has great connection with other kinds of work about container management. The amount of empty container transportation hold a20%proportion in the total amount of container transportation, the liner shipping companies suffer a great loss from this, it’s urgent to low the expenses and optimize the decision of empty repositioning. Researches of empty container transportation may contribute to logistics literature and offer data support to shipping company, which awards the researches both theoretical and practical meaning. The paper explored the empty repositioning in five steps.Firstly, give a simple introduce of the history about container transportation and the current situation of empty repositioning in Yangtze River, a review of the container management and empty repositioning was pursued the following,It was found that there are a few literatures about the fixed quantity of empty repositioning but a plenty of determine the nature of empty transportation.Secondly, use the date of empty repositioning about a container transport company which can stand for the liner shipping along Yangtze River to show the general situation of container transportation, analysis the influence to economic in liner shipping company and the cause about empty repositioning was related.Thirdly, a detailed analysis of the relationship about empty repositioning and container management, the process of empty container flowing, the problems should be solved, the target and the influent element to empty container transport were discussed.Fourthly, point out that container transport company can rent container, purchase container and transport empty container from other port to satisfy the demands of the customer, a model about empty repositioning was built, an example of case was offered to analysis the process of empty repositioning within different restrictions.Finally, several improve measurement about empty repositioning were given, such as the share of containers from different companies, the cooperation between liner shipping companies and container manufacture company, the choice of different type of container, intermodal transport and etc.