| Nowadays, China has become a universally recognized maritime power country. However, we cannot deny the fact that with the development of shipping industry, the amount of maritime services export is much lower than that of import, resulting in the maritime service trade deficits increased year by year. Many domestic scholars have been tried to search for reasons from maritime transport service itself, but they never search the reasons from the perspective of industrial organization theory, which investigates the relationships between the structure of shipping market and the export of maritime transport services. Therefore, this paper takes liner shipping markets as an example to study the relationships between it and maritime service export. As we all know, the liner shipping industry has a significant scale economy, and its unique characteristics are vulnerable to the formation of oligopoly. Especially in the background of the current shipping alliance, the degree of the monopoly of liner transportation market is further strengthened, which may cause more adverse impacts on the export of maritime services in China.Therefore, the author thinks it is necessary to analysis the effects of the structure of liner transport market on the export of maritime transport services. However, there is not too much literature about the relationship between market structure and export trade, the two developed along its own path. This paper tries to analyze the mechanism that market structure acts on export trade, and then analyze the influence of China’s liner shipping market structure on marine services export trade. First of all, with the analysis of impact factors of market structure and its type, this paper tries to analyze the characteristics of export under different market structures, which lays the foundation of analyzing the relationships between China’s liner shipping market and export of maritime service trade. Then, this paper analyzes the present situation of maritime services trade. In overall, the export of marine services in China still has disadvantages in the export area, the total exports, and the export competitiveness etc. Moreover, the paper also analyzes the China’s liner shipping market structure and finds that it is an oligopoly market, but different sub markets have different degrees of monopolistic competition. On this basis, this paper analyzes the impact mechanism of the liner transportation market structure on the shipping service exports and uses multivariate regression to analysis the effect of liner transport market on the export of maritime transport services. The result shows that the influence factors of market structure, which including enterprise scale, product differentiation and entry barriers, have a positive impact on the export of maritime transport services. Finally, according to the status quo of China’s liner shipping market and empirical results, this paper puts forward the corresponding policy suggestions to improve the structure of China’s liner shipping market, in order to promote the export of maritime services trade. |
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