The sustained growth of Asian economic development has brought significant changes in the structure of container shipping services network in the intercontinental trades to and from Asia and intra-Asia as well. This paper aims to examine the development of Asian container shipping network in response to change of global and regional maritime environment Firstly, we examine the factors that are driving to evolution of the Asian container shipping services network. Secondly, we analyse the development of Asian container shipping services network. Beside the high growth of Asian economic development, increasing vessel size, performing alliance among liner shipping, emergency of new ports, port administrator policy, terminal operators, and liberalisation also play important role in restructuring container shipping network. Frequent changes in the pattern of mainline and feeder services in Asian container shipping network on transpacific and Asia-Europe trade suggest that the system is still evolving; that the economic forces driving change have not as yet been fully accommodated. Rapidly changing trade patterns, especially in East and South East Asia, add to this instabiliry. Hence we would expert to see further modifications to the pattem of mainline and feeder services, as well as changes in the absolute and relative status of regional ports, over the next decade.
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