An Analysis of Key Influence Factors for Containership Registrations in Taiwan

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In the highly competitive shipping industry, flagging out has become one of the important operation strategies for shipowners. Although some literatures have discussed the practice of and reasons for vessel flagging out, there is a lack of systematic and quantifiedanalysis, nor any differentiation between different shipping sub-markets. In order to understand the degree of influence of the related factors upon the vessel registration of Taiwan container shipping companies, this study adopts the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and develops a hierarchical analysis framework with four different objectives, and thirteen relevant criteria to evaluate the issue. Study results indicated that "Reducing operating costs" is the most important among the four objectives, and "Restriction of the operation region" is the most important evaluation criterion. It is expected that the findings of this work is helpful for shipping companies and government agencies in making relevant decisions.
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