CAR CARRYING INDUSTRY

Car Carrying Industry in Terms of Shipping



Table of Contents

Introduction3

Exporting Countries3

Importing Countries5

Car Carrying Shipping Lines7

Maritime links with continental Europe7

Ferries to Ireland8

Eurotunnel and Eurostar8

Emerging Car Consumer Countries9

Operational Differences between Car Carriers and other Vessels10

The Best Commercial Strategy10

Increasing the Geographical Connectivity (Mearsk Example)11

Eastwards service11

Leading technology in the field of refrigerated transport12

West service12

Factors that Lead to Success13

Requirement to Control the Safety Aspect14

Total Management for Safety Measures and their Influence on Maritime Operations14

Conclusion15

References16

Car Carrying Industry in Terms of Shipping

Introduction

The global market has seen a gradual prevalence of the car carrying commercial sector. The concepts and operations of the maritime industry are adjusted with the commercial activities toe ensure security and efficiency of the operations, this paper discusses the car carrying industry in terms of export, import, risk factors, safety measures and relationship with the maritime operations.

Exporting Countries

Global markets are dominated by a few manufacturers belonging to the Triad (U.S., EU, and Japan). The first multinational company, General Motors (GM) was the largest market capitalization in the world for years, and remains today the 9th global company. The top five manufacturers: Toyota , General Motors , Volkswagen , Ford , which is the 13th company worldwide , and Hyundai represent 48% of world production , and the first 10 (including Fiat , Renault and Peugeot account for 70% of production (Metrics, 121).

Despite this dominance of the top ten manufacturers, they are many , many emerging countries (Japan for a long time, but also South Korea ) attempting to build national champions (the group Tata in India, which is becoming progressively in 2008 bought Jaguar and Land Rover to Ford ) . In terms of hybrid cars, Japan is first with the Toyota Prius (gasoline and electricity) since 1997 and the Honda Insight since 1999. The United States, on the subject, far behind, preparing to leave GM, 2010, the Chevrolet Volt, powered with batteries rechargeable purchased LG in South Korea. The Chinese, who as Minister of Science and Technology Wan Gang, a former engineer from Audi has also worked on electric vehicles, has also largely increased its capacity in the future. The U.S. Department of Energy has set for its $ 25 billion in a program to support electric vehicles (Metrics, 124).

Meanwhile, private builders 100% Chinese emerge, such as Chery (6th Chinese producer in 2009), Great Wall, BYD (7th) and Geely (10th) which took over in March 2010 the Swedish brand Volvo Cars . This was done despite the emergence of political authorities who wanted to encourage industry consolidation around considerable public (China had in the 1990s around 120 manufacturers). This emergence has surprised all stakeholder, including political, note Crystal Chang (Jamieson, 316).In commercial vehicles, there are the Chinese manufacturers or FAW Dongfeng but Changan Foton, JAC, Hafei, Brilliance and Great Wall Motors.

The Chinese government has authorized the establishment of foreign manufacturers in China in 1981 but with restrictions: foreign manufacturers were to establish combined ventures with local companies do not hold more than 50% of the joint venture and could not be more ...