The Role of Container Leasing for Maritime Transportation -Analysis and Introduction of Container Leasing Business to Asia
Containers, internationally standardized equipment for maritime transportation, have been making major contribution for liner shipping industry. Their use has dramatically enhanced the speed and effectiveness for crossborder shipping of both industrial and consumer products, as such the trade volume by containers have significantly increased since their introduction. Today, roughly half of containers in the world are owned by shipping company and the rest half is lease containers leased by container leasing companies to shipping companies. The container leasing business is relatively new business. Most of container leasing companies were formed in middle to late twentieth century. The business has been driven by seven major companies and they have more than 75％ of its market share. In spite of the fact that the major contributor of maritime transportation is Asia in terms of shipping volume, all of those major container leasing companies are western countries based. This paper tries to analyze the barrier to entry of container leasing business and its business opportunity for Asian countries.
Containers container leasing maritime transportation containerization new entry differentiation
Taichiro Sahara
Department of Commerce Senshu University, Tokyo Japan
国际会议
香港·广州
英文
269-270
2010-07-25（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）