Market Research And Cost Analysis On Marine Transportation Of General Cargoes

Globalization brings significant increase in the demand of transportation via semi-submerged ships,heavy lift carries and multipurpose vessels around the world.The transportation of general cargoes also sees great new opportunities in China with the development of export-oriented equipment manufacturing industry and the overall industry upgrading.However,the transportation companies focusing on general cargoes find it hard to control the operating costs,thus largely influences the economic benefit of these companies,and even brings burden to the development of general cargo transportation market in China.The thesis takes the marine transportation of general cargoes as object of study,providing an in-depth analysis on the features and costs of the transportation of general cargoes.The thesis explains the feature of shipping general cargoes and the fundamental theory based on literature review,indicates the present development situation of general cargoes traffic,and then analyzes the major element and related costs.By using Grey correlation method,it explores the relevancy of each cost element to benefits and the benefit efficiency under development of different kinds of cost elements by quoting DEA model,and raises the industrial disadvantages based on the relevancy between cost elements and their cost efficiency.At last,the thesis mentions the existing problem and suggests the approach to deal with the problem.Based on the development status of general cargo transportation market,the thesis provides an analysis on the operational elements and costs related to the marine transportation of general cargoes,which will not only help the market development,but also bring practical guidance for the industry players to formulate cost-effective strategies so as to earn market competitiveness,and for the other shipping transportation as reference.