Abstract
Recently, in the cargo transportation between international, the rate of the change to airlines from conventional container ships rises greatly (over 40% of money base in Asia) in the background of the increase of transit needs between international of the high-tech products such as the electronic parts, semiconductors, office supplies and, etc. In this reason, the transportation costs of the high-value-added commodity groups soar, the fare differences between aircrafts and conventional container ships become large, and the problem of the earth environment has become aggravated. From such circumstances, in order to control the rise of the rate of the change to airlines, the Very High Speed MRTH Full Container Ships applied the MRTH (Minimum Resistance Twin Hull) developed by Dr. Maruo1), should be adopted to achieve highly speeding up of the container transportations between international.The MRTH Container Ships can provide with an excellent high speed performance that breaks down the limit of the speed performance of conventional container ships and can make the difference at the lead time with aircrafts insignificant by cheap fares.In the present paper, the feasibility studies when the MRTH Container Ships are introduced into the coastal shipping routes, Japan-North West route and North East-Europe route, are described.
