Risk Management Research Of Apex Maritime (Fuzhou) Co., LTD Ocean Export Business

International freight forwarder is a new industry developed with the world economic integration situation trade, its scope and process are much more widely, and has become one of the most active and pop industry. International freight forwarder plays important role in economic development, widely involved in ocean, air & road transportaiton, which greatly promote our country’s foreign trade import & export business. However, recent years, many new international freight forwarder companies are established with different qualify, they are mostly short of standard service & professional information; ocean export business have longer operating cycle and frequent information exchange; customers need more professional & various service mode. Above facts prove that international freight forwarder companies face variety of and greater risks. and tneed to be seriously in the problem of risk management, which will ensure healthy and orderly development of the companies.This paper take Apex Maritime (Fuzhou) Co., Ltd as an example.Recognizing, appraising risks in internatioal ocean export shipments, then come up with some solution suggestions to manage risk.First of all, the paper begin with instroducing some backgrounds & significance, at the same time, reviewing some related risk management results both China and overseas.Then, the paper studied the general sense of the risk management issues, including risk management concepts, definitions, risk assessment models and response measures etc. Risk assessments are focus on introducing Fuzzy Comprehensive Evaluation Model and how to use Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to assign the weighting factors. Also review some Internatinal freight forwarder relative basic theory.Based on above, according to the general operation procedures of international farwarder ocean export business & considering relative cooperative parties, the paper takes Apex Maritime (Fuzhou) Co., Ltd as an example, divide main risks in international ocean export shipments into booking risk, container releasing operation risk, customs reclaration risk, document risk,shipping carrier risk, and other risk. Risk indicator system is set up base on subdivisional programme.Next, after assigning the weighting factors with using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), the article build the risk evaluation model and adopt the theory of fuzzy comprehensive evaluation, to quantize the risk and further analasy risk of Apex Maritime (Fuzhou)Co.,Ltd ocean export business. As a result, come to the conclusion that the business risk of this company is highIn the end, discusses the measures it should takes to prevent the risk happening to the largest extent.