The report is a 5 volume work and presents the results of an analysis of alternative approaches to rationalization in the U.S. liner trades. The Federal Maritime Commission's primary purpose for the analysis was to obtain an estimate of the relative cost benefits that could be derived from a practical rationalization example, first without a decrease in fleet capacity or port service and then with decreased fleet capacity and port service. FMC's secondary purpose was to obtain and evaluation of the various means of implementation and institutional forms available to achieve rationalization. Rationalization is generally defined as the minimization of the resources required to supply a product or to meet a demand. As applied to the United States liner trades, which are subject to the regulatory authority of the Federal Maritime Commission, we used a special definition of rationalization: to redeploy the liner fleet for reducing fleet size, increasing ship utilization, decreasing operating cost, and reducing fuel consumption, while assuring shippers of adequate capacity and frequency of service to transport the cargoes offered by them.
Rationalization of Liner Service, United States Atlantic and Gulf Ports to Northern Europe. Volume I: Executive Summary
1980
29 pages
Report
No indication
English
Marine & Waterway Transportation , Merchant ships , Marine transportation , Cost effectiveness , Optimization , Capacity , Fleets , Ports , Harbors , Services , Cargo transportation , Fuel consumption , Consolidation , Operating costs , Estimates , International trade , Systems analysis , Atlantic Ocean , Europe , Atlantic Coast(United States) , Gulf Coast(United States) , Trade routes , Liner fleets