A Study of Container Liner Carriers’ Port Choice Model – Taiwanese Container Ports as an Example

• Main Authors: Lian Fang Zheng, 鄭聯芳
• Other Authors: Yonger Wu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2005
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/64200423363659183468

碩士 === 國立交通大學 === 管理學院碩士在職專班運輸物流組 === 93 === The purpose of this study was to develop a stated preference design for investigating the affecting factors that carrier’s choice of ports in the Taiwan area. Further, this study constructed a multi-nominal logit model to explain the Taiwan’s port choice behavior of the ocean carrier and analyze the importance of affecting factors. The major findings of this study was through the results of the Logit model, the factors that affect carriers choice of Taiwan’s port can be categorized into two major factors, those were the loading efficiency of the port, transit time in the land, terrify of the port and terrify in the land. In this study, we only examine the port choice in the Taiwan island, in the future, it could also examine the assignment of shipments to port on an aggregate level should be one of the important topics in the future study.