Investigation of the quantitative and qualitative shipping market research and forecasting methods and their strategic applications to liner shipping and tramp shipping (VLCC sector)

• Main Author: Xia, Wen
• Other Authors: Tiong Lee Kong, Robert
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Maritime studies::Maritime management and business
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/15968
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper conducts an extensive Literature Review of the most commonly used quantitative and qualitative forecasting methods both in general and in shipping. Four forecasting methods – Exponential Smoothing, Multiple Regression, ARIMA, and Simple Average Combined Forecast – will be carried out to f...