Research On Cost Control Of A Container Transportation Company

:The current shipping market has not been gotten rid of the depressing mar ket environment. The container transportation companies who want to keep surviving in this environment must improve their revenue and reduce the costs from various areas so that they can finally get rid of the dilemma. According to the data of A company during2011to the end of2013, the cost of container is the fourth largest cost among the fuel costs, shipping fees and transportation fees. The proportion of the container costs is about12%to the total costs. At the meantime, the container cost is a very important part of the A company’s cost composition.The analysis of this article is began from four largest costs of the container shipping company. According to the logical structure of offering problems, analyzing problems and solving problems, the cost of Empty Container Transportation, the Container Demurrage Charges. Meanwhile, the suggestions of how to make the container company’s container costs down will be offered.First of all, the mathematical method is used to roughly calculate the total demand of containers and match the self-purchase with the chartering. To reduce the cost of container directly from the container number and the leasing quantity.Secondly, according to the research results, the suggestions are made through analyzing the causes of container cost, the container’s components, and the influencing factors, as well as by researching the Empty Container Transportation’s time, strategy, route plan and etc. which related to the supply chain management theory.Thirdly, based on researching the cause of demurrage charges, its management situation and the risk of it, we provide an optimization processes and an optimization strategies of the demurrage charges so as to reduce the cost of waste, and to improve the turnover rate of the containers.Fourthly, by analyzing the current situation of A company’s container repair cost, we find a way of reducing the waste. This way is to use the balanced scorecard method to research and optimize the container repair management procedure, the transportation management procedure, the transportation quality, repair management, the responsibility and the claimant management.This article devoted itself to careful studying how to control the container cost effectively. In a result, it can provide some references of container cost control to the domestic and international container transportation company.