Container Ship Investment Based on Real Option

Abstract:

This study investigates liner companies' timing of investment and sealing up container ships based on real option theory. The Dixit model is adopted to find out a pair of trigger prices for entry and exit with the assumption freight rate obey Geometric Brownian Motion. More new ship-building orders and entrants lead to lower future freight rate in the oligopoly liner shipping market. This model is tested empirically basic on the data of a 9000 TEU container ship on Far East-Europe route and the result is positive comparing to the number of ship orders. Liner companies' should make decision base on the freight of the ship in operation. Therefore, ship investment should be made at the new ship order trough and freight trough.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 380-384)
• Pages: 4557-4561
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.380-384.4557
• Online since: August 2013
• Authors: Si Qin Yu, Bin Ji, Jin Hai Chen
• Keywords: Container Ship Investment, Oligopoly, Real Option

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