Abstract
In this paper, in order to grasp the trend of the East Asia region that the volume of container cargo is increasing remarkably in recent years, the characteristics of container transportation on the main ports in East Asia was clarified.
The trend of the main ports of the East Asia area was clarified by transition of the amount of handling of the container cargo for the past 20 years.
Next, the difference in the characteristic of a domestic port and a foreign port was clarified by the quantitative analysis of the flow pattern of container cargo that passes through a port.
Furthermore, the characteristic of container vessels that call at main container ports was clarified by analysis of the pattern that call at North American and intra Asian routes, and the pattern that call at Japanese port.
