The Tendency of enlargement of Container vessle has been continued ever since the introduction of containerized transport system from 1960.
Bigger container vessel enabled the ocean carriers to enjoy enhanced vessel speed and improved vessel space a...
The Tendency of enlargement of Container vessle has been continued ever since the introduction of containerized transport system from 1960.
Bigger container vessel enabled the ocean carriers to enjoy enhanced vessel speed and improved vessel space and asset which brought profit increase as well as improvement on service quality.
Not only that, bunker fuel and various port charges, labor costs also tend to decrease followed by vessel size enlargement that most of ocean carriers angle for enhancement of service quality and expansion of service network along with strategic alliances.
Unlike other study feature the advantages of bigger vessel but according to Jansson, Shneerson(1978) and other study, bigger vessel extend working hours in the port which incurs considerable capital costs and added operation costs and the wrong market grasp by partners in the market could end up raising possibilities of oversupply of container vessel.
Continuous ordering of new vessel is worsening market balances of vessel encouraging a lot of panamax size vessels flux into south-east asia market where having slight raise of trade volumes these years causing severe fall in ocean freight by fierce rate competition between carriers giving services on south-east asia area.
The purpose of this study is to shed light on globally ongoing trends of building bigger vessels and oversupply of container slots as well as investigating the reduction ratio of south-east asia market.
Along with analysis of trends on fleet and ocean freight change I suggested the necessity of active and aggressive strategic alliance in south-east asia ocean market.
So as to provide the ocean carriers giving services between south-east asia the optimized form of alliance system which help on decreasing an excessive competition on the route and stabilizing ocean freight for sake of win-win strategies between ocean carriers and traders, the survey research had been conducted on the subject of how the participants recognize south-east asia ocean market and the main factors on influencing efficient apply of strategic alliances.
The survey research revealed that firstly, most of carriers admit the oversupply and an excessive competition, and willing to take part in new form of alliances which can prevent the fall of ocean freight.
Secondly, most of participants value “trust enhancement” between partners the most among questionnaire items. Vague regulation or unfairness of decision making process makes alliance partners to have misunderstandings during cooperation that clear regulation on the responsibilities and monthly calculations of each partners and fairness on applying decision making process is most important factor on continuing strategic alliances.
Thirdly, most of participants put the “establishment of stabilized ocean freight” first among other motives of strategic alliances. More active and compulsory alliances tactics restricting slots, applying penalty regulation are mostly necessary instead of depending on autonomous participation of GRI which is hard to get the positive result on the current oversupplying markets.
For that, the close participation of all partners and cooperation with maritime association as well as nations are required above all.
IADA(Intra-Asia Discussion Agreement) has been established and operated for many years on south-east asia route, allowing all partners exchange and purchase slots each other.
But with the references of ceiling system apllied on S.Korea-Japan main ports continued 9 years, all carriers giving services on south-east asia need to focus on establishing new term of strong alliance system which can endure during hard and competitive ocean markets on the basis of trust and thorough preparation of detailed regulation, so that construct stable ocean markets for each carriers and traders.
Furthermore, new settlement of alliances will allow ocean carriers to focus on building convenient and developed customer services and IT services.