集装箱船的大型化开发及其引发的问题

首先概要介绍近年来世界集装箱船大型化的发展，接着分析指出，远洋运输成本低廉是集装箱船大型化发展的驱动力，然后提出大型化发展中出现的3个问题值得讨论。第一个问题是大型化发展受港口航道水深、码头装卸机械等条件制约。第二个问题是设计制造超大型集装箱船的主机不易。最后一个问题是，为解决超大型集装箱船的巨量货物的“集疏运”，必须开发电子信息技术。作者最后提出，21世纪初对大型集装箱船的箱量定位应为8000标准箱。

Development of Large Containers and Its Created Problems

The development of large containers in the recent years is briefly introduced at first. Analysis indicates that the low cost of ocean shipping is the driving po wer for the development of large containers. It is pointed out that there are th ree problems in the development of large containers to be discussed, the first o ne is that the development of large containers is restricted by the water depth of port and waterways, the second one is that it is not easy to make main engine for super large containers, the final one is that electronic information techno logy has to be developed for settling the feeder service for large amounts of su per large container carried goods. It is concluded that the suitable capacity of container for large container ship be 8,000 TEU.