集装箱航运公司继占领了棉花、冷冻货物等的运输市场之后,又把目光投向了散货市场,而这一市场以往通常是与集装箱运输无缘的。 据美国华盛顿特区DRI—WEFA咨询公司的研究人员本.哈克特研究,集装箱船从事散货运输的市场潜力非常大。据他估计,干散货船只每年运输大约20亿吨的货物,而其中只有不足总量1％的货物是由集装箱船运输的。如果这一比例增长1倍的话,并不会对散货市场造成多大影响,但是却能够让更多的集装箱 Following the seizing of the transport market for cotton, frozen goods and others, container shipping companies turned their attention to the bulk cargo market, which in the past was usually missed by container shipping. According to Ben Hackett, a researcher with the DRI-WEFA consultancy in Washington, DC, the market potential for container shipping in bulk shipping is very high. He estimates that dry bulk vessels transport about 2 billion tons of cargo each year, of which only less than 1% of the total cargo is carried by container ships. If this ratio is doubled, it will not have much impact on the bulk market, but it will allow more containers