FIGURES AND TABLES

Figure 1.

Decomposition of the scheduled transit time for the CEU service of Cosco.
Source: Based on data COSCO

Figure 2.

Total transit times (Asian port of loading to European inland destination).
Source: Based on data provided by carriers and Eurogate

Figure 3.

Functional elements in a line-bundling network or loop

Figure 4.

Sources of schedule unreliability on the East Asia–Europe route for the fourth quarter of 2004 (based on survey data for the loops listed in Table 1).
Source: Survey data

Figure 5.

Example curve of daily fuel consumption/vessel speed.
Note: Data for CSCL Oceania, 8,468 TEU, 93,000 bhp.
Source: Based on data provided by Sea Span

Table 1 - Selected loops on the East Asia Europe route (January 2005).

Table 2 - Composed transit times in days for 24 loops on the East Asia–Europe link.

Table 3 - Deepsea call efficiency ratio for selected European ports (TEU handled as a percentage of two-way capacity of vessel called at port).

Table 4 - Average value in of goods per fully-laden TEU for different trade routes (import and export containers in relation to Belgium).

Table 5 - Some examples of shipping lines' direct interest in European terminals (Summer 2005).