Research on the Trend of Ship Dimensions at Intra-East Asia Sea Route

－ Impact of Cascading Effect from Trunk Line －

Abstract

Information on the trend of ship dimensions at intra-East Asia sea route is very little. However, an increasing percentage of Japan's foreign trade is with East Asia. Therefore, in this report, the trend of full cellar container ship dimensions at intra-East Asia sea route was quantitatively analyzed.

Deploying new, large container ships into trunk line has the cascading effect, which leads to redeploying smaller existing ship to other sea routes. The impact of this cascading effect to the enlarging the size of container ship at intra-East Asia sea route was also analyzed.