Construction and Application of International Marine Transportation Database
- Date：2019-03-06
- Update：2019-03-06
- Department：IOT
Project Overview：
The current global economic landscape changes rapidly, and the situation of maritime cargo transportation also fluctuates violently. Taiwan is located in the center of East Asia and surrounded by sea. Although we have enjoyed many years of maritime transportation, the changes in recent years have been quite unfavorable to Taiwan. in the recently published ranking of 2017 Global Container Ports, the Port of Kaohsiung slid from the 14th to the 16th, which warrants high attention and proper response r the Government.
The formation and evaluation of high-quality policies requires high-quality scientific analysis, and high-quality data is an indispensable element of high-quality policies. In view of the fact that container transportation is the focus of maritime transportation for Taiwan, and maritime container transportation is global in nture, we researched and built the "International Maritime Transportation Database" to collect the main and regional navigation routes information of global ocean container transportation for the long term, build and improve the statistics of related information and visualize its functions, and conduct issue analysis based on the seasonal data changes of current year at the end of year.
Research Outcomes：
(1)The international container transportation network data between 2011 Q2 and 2018 Q1 has been collected, which can be used as the analysis tool for the impact of ship upsizing, shipping alliance reorganization, and Panama Canal widening on the route deployment activities by ocean carriers.
(2)Focused on the Far East prior to 2016, about 600 routes were collected every quarter. Since 2017,the collection has eanded to cover all global regular container routes , with about 1,500 to 1,550 routes collected every quarter.These collected routes cover about 93% of all global transportation capacity and the data are quite complete enabing more comprehensive and accurate analysis.
(3)Completed the software of Segmentation Chart production, interactive map display and database condition screening, and integrated these into asoftware system that can coordinate and support each other, so that a large amount of data can be presented in a concrete and visual manner.
(4)Conducted issue-oriented analysis on port connectivity, new alliance route deploymentsand regional route types. The outcomes of this research and analysis can serve as reference for strategy development by the units of the Department of Navigation and Aviation, Maritime and Port Bureau and Taiwan International Ports Corporation.
Promotion of Outcomes and Benefits ：
- The marine transportation database of this Institute has accumulated many years of container route data. In addition to continuing to collect the latest information, the user interface of database and the analysis functions will be improved in order to bring the benefits of database into full function. The promotion of the research outcomes and benefits are as follows:
- The route statistics data from the second quarter of 2011 to the second quarter of 2016 were delivered by mail in May 2017 as reference for the Department of Navigation and Aviation, Department of Statistics, Maritime and Port Bureau of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications, and Taiwan International Ports Corporation.
- Asymposium was held in December 2017 attended by the Ministry of Transportation and Communications, Maritime and Port Bureau, Taiwan International Ports Corporation and academic leaders. Ideas were exchangedand recommendations given on the enhancement and application of the database system functions.
- The 2017 route operation information between Taiwan and the New Southbound Countries as well as between the New Southbound Countries was provided in January and February of 2018, in response to the needs of the Maritime and Port Bureau.
- In April 2018, the "Construction, Maintenance and Data Analysis of the International Marine and Air Transportation Database" report was presented in the 31st internal conference of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications.
- A symposium was held in December 2018 attended by the Ministry of Transportation and Communications, Maritime and Port Bureau, Taiwan International Ports Corporation and the academic community. The outcomes were discussed to enhance the use of database system and explore future directions of improvement.
- Since data souces are subject to confidentiality provisions, the database will continue to be provided as a reference to conduct policy development for the Ministry of Transportation and Communications, Maritime and Port Bureau, Taiwan International Ports Corporation in form of graphic charts and diagrams within the scope of data protection agreement.
Summary of Key Research Outcomes ：
