A Study on Queuing Pricing to Ships Entering Panama Canal and the Choice Decision between All Water and Rail-Water Intermodal Transportations

• Main Author: 孫珮元
• Other Authors: Chen-Hsiu Laih
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/11641647860526672127

碩士 === 國立臺灣海洋大學 === 商船學系所 === 98 === The proportion of large ships sailing through the east Transpacific route is currently much more than through the Panama Canal by the long waiting of time caused by less of width of the river and the limitation of the canal transit reservation system. The reason above is why the shipping companies don’t choose to sail through the Panama Canal. Therefore, the Canal expansion plan is the adaptive strategy in response to the trend of shipping market. In this research, the expanded Panama Canal will attract more ships using the Canal, causing the ship has to wait for a long time in queue and uneconomical. To eliminate the time waste in queue, we use Optimal n-step Toll Scheme to charge. Then through the invariant equilibrium derivative cost principle to splits the ship's arrival time and also release the queuing time. Finally, find the minimum cost of supply and demand sides; seek to the best adaptive step value in Optimal n-step Toll Scheme, providing the best n-step which referred. On the other hand, large ships sailing through the East Coast of America would be more diversification once the expansion project completed. In consideration of transportation cost or the shortest delivery time, towards the all water route and the rail-water route. We use the regression analysis with the consideration mentioned above for decision making. We have the conclusion that all water route is suggested with consideration of minimal transportation cost. However, within consideration of the minimal transportation time and the number of container which less than critical value of transportation time, rail-water transportation is suggested.