오늘날 세계 해운 시황의 호황에 따라 컨테이너 정기선 부분에서는 선복량의 부족 현상이 초래되고 있으며 선사는 신조선 발주와 중고선 구입 및 정기 용선을 통해 부족한 선복 문제를 해결하고 있다. 특히, 정기선사들은 신조선 발주시 TUE당 운송비용을 절감하기 위하여 컨테이너선의 대형화를 적극적으로 추진하고 있다. 이러한 대형 컨테이너선박의 발주를 통한 선복 확보 방안은 차후 선복 과잉 문제가 발생될 수 있음이 컨테이너선의 실증 분석을 통해 연구되었다. 본 논문에서는 2008년 이후 대형 컨테이너선이 대거 인도되는 시기에 선복량의 과잉공급으로 인한 해운시황의 변동에 따른 선사의 대응 전략 방안에 대해 연구한다. 즉, 경제성 분석을 바탕으로 한 초대형 컨테이너선의 Space Chartering 시점에 대한 선사의 전략 수립에 대해 논의한다.

Off-line ship chartering is done nearly through the brokers. Because of the international scale of chartering market, brokers spend too much times and costs on searching the most appropriate product which the consumers want. In this research, we propose the on-line Charter Product Categorization Model to search the products efficiently in the Cyber Chartering System. This Model will make concerned parties of the ship chartering to get unified product information efficiently, and the select the most appropriate product. In this research, we classified the ship chartering products into categories of cargo, ship type, and sea routes, and defined mutual relation of each products, and we verified that this classification is necessary to search the products through the product searching experiment.

Vessels chartering has contributed to developing Korean shipping industry over the past three decades. Vessels chartered by shipping companies have been employed in cross trades as well as in the Korean foreign trade to achieve their business strategy. Meanwhile, some problems such as speculation, sales-oriented expansion with poor margin, poor forecasting capacity, over excessive competition in cross trades among Korean owners, and lack of speciality in decision-making, have played adverse roles in promoting chartering business in Korea. There(ore, this paper aims to discuss motives for vessel chartering business and its significance in the Korean shipping industry and to identify problems in the business.