Research On Anti-monopoly Regulation Of Tramp Transport

With the birth of CI Tramp Pool of spot capesize vessel and IHC Tramp Pool of Professional handy ships,many international tramp companies of the same ship type began to look for partners.They establish Tramp Pool or to unite in other ways to avoid being eliminated in the tramp market.Although the cooperative operation of tramper enterprises has the advantages of improving the utilization rate of ships,avoiding the commercial risks,purchasing second-hand ships or time chartered ships,and attracting investment.On the other hand,will the cooperative behavior among the members of the consortium affect the fair competition in the tramp service market?At the same time,if some enterprises with large market share operate jointly,there may be abuses of dominant market position and blockade of competition in the tramp market.If this happens,are there any anti-monopoly laws in the world?We should think about these questions carefully.The EU should first respond to these problems.With the revolution of EU maritime competition law,the international community began to reflect on the correctness of excluding tramp ships from anti-monopoly laws,and whether Liner Transport and tramp transport should be distinguished.Chinese legislation on tramp transport is far from meeting the needs of the rapid development of the international shipping market.In order to explore the restrictive competitive effect of joint operation between shipping operators in irregular ship transport in shipping market.On this basis,we should construct appropriate anti-monopoly laws and regulations to provide ideas for the anti-monopoly part of China's shipping law in the future.This paper combines the structural characteristics of tramp market with the methods of comparative study and logical empirical analysis.The main contents are divided into four chapters.Chapter 1 gives an overview of tramp transport market.This chapter introduces the concept and characteristics of tramp market.This chapter paves the way for the analysis of tramp transport market and related market and the regulation of anti-monopoly law.From the point of view of economics,this chapter analyses and demonstrates that the market structure of tramp shipping market is a mixture of oligopoly and monopoly competition.This chapter demonstrates that the tramp transport market should be regulated by anti-monopoly.It also discusses the legal regulation of anti-monopoly in China's tramp transport market.In the second chapter,according to the international anti-monopoly law,the mainstream analysis of the relevant market is carried out.In the second chapter,I analyze the tramp-related transport market from two dimensions:product market and geographical market.Chapter three first gives an overview of the main international joint venture of tramp transport enterprises--tramp pool.Then it briefly describes the anti-monopoly laws and of the tramp pool transport agreements in various countries,and then evaluates the anti-monopoly effects of the tramp pool agreements.Finally,it provides some suggestions on the legal regulation of the tramp pool agreements in China.Chapter four first outlines the abuse of market dominance,then systematically analyses the constituent elements of abuse of market dominance in tramp market from three aspects:market main body,market dominance and behavior harmful to market competition order.Finally,through the analysis of several anti-monopoly laws and regulations of abuse of market dominance in tramp market in various countries,It provides suggestions for China's Shipping Act.