Title The Investigation & Evaluation of Blue Highway (II) -Feasibility of Development of Container Coastal Shipping
Dept IOT
Year 2001
Month
Price
Summary Owing to the mutual influence of shipping operation, industy distribution and government policy, the local long distance container transport has become a serious problem for the inland highway transportation system. As result of heavy truckload the service quality of the road system is worsening and therefore wasting our social resources  The government has been promoting coastal container shipping to replace the heavy truckload on the highway. There are some achievements but many substantial problems remain unsolved the propose of this study is to investigate the current situation, operation bottleneck and development potentials associated with the coastal container shipping and to propose the future development strategy for the references of shipping lines and related agencies.  Our study indicates that the coastal container transport could be made competitive by using the empty slots of the carrier so that the seaborn transportation cost will be absorbed by the shipping line. Currently, the volume of coastal container shipping could not be substantially increased due to the restriction of the service quality of the shipping routes. After the forthcoming opening of container terminal of Taipei Port, the container mainline will be connected to Taipei Port and the burden of the North-South container transport will be eased. The escalation of the port service quality in the northern port of Taiwan will be a positive impact to the operation of the coastal container shipping industry.  The development of coastal container shipping will transfer part of the container flow from road transportation to sea borne transportation. The congestion of highway will hence reduced and improve our living quality.  Currently , only very few shipping lines have the capability to operate the coastal container shipping with a competitive total cost. In the future, the growth of the coastal container shipping is also limited. The intention and willingness of the shipping lines are the dominant factors of the operation, the contribution from the government for the encouragement of the coastal container shipping could includes reducing the port handling cost, relieving the customs restrictions and promoting the port service quality. The improvement of the port service quality of northern Taiwan will be regarded as the most significant measure for the promotion of coastal container shipping.
Post date 2001/01/01
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