The Mega-ship and Its Impacts

Shipping market is very much influenced by supply and demand, which means capacity of tonnages and trade volumes according to world economic situations. Company involved in this business has been faced on fierce competition in the shipping markets, and other competitors have struggled to get over such a difficult and survival situations. In terms of competitive advantages, parties in this circles have to reduce unit rates based on economy of scale, making bigger ship being employed in the shipping routes. Supply and demand of shipping capacity is key component in shipping, so that shipping company and other parties got involved in maritime business have to be concerned with and follow what is going on shipping market because of shipping rates in relation to shipping company as well as shipper in export and import management. Due to various reasons, maga-ship is not only the matters for shipping markets but it has something to do with all maritime environment. Deploying mega-ship has some environmental factors around shipping business, and it also produces other problems and disadvantages that distort the shipping market. Therefore, some productive discussion or coordination should be done to solve the problems raised from shipping field, following the overcapacity of shipping tonnages.