| Title | Investigating and Analyzing Container Flows among Major Ports in Asia |
| Dept | Transportation Engineering, Maritime and Air Transport Division |
| Year | 2013 |
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| Summary | In 2010, the amount of containers shipped in Asia accounts for more than 50% of the global containers, and more than 90% of the international trade in Taiwan is processed by ocean shipping. Therefore, container flow information has become a critical issue for the port operators and liners to support their strategy plans and decision makings. According to our survey, avaiaable database can only provide container flow in terms of country to country and throughput at each ports. In order to analyze port to port container flow among major ports in Asia, this study develops three methodologies to estimate the containers shipped among the ports. Major 35 ports are selected based on the Containerisation International (CI) ranking in 2010 covered by 11 Asia countries. The first method applies container processing ratio at each port to estimate the container flows based on the country to country container volume. In the second method, the amount of containers handled in the ports has a close relationship with the number of cranes at the terminal. The percentage of the cranes in the 35 ports is used to estimate the container flow. In the third method, regression models have been developed to estimate container flow by considering the variables of export trade value, the total containers export and import between origin and destination ports. The estimation results can be further applied in the trend analysis of container flow among major ports in Asia and also conducted the community analysis of the containers related to the supply chain management. |
| Post date | 2013/04/01 |
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