Data supplied by the Tasmanian Ports Corporation (Tasports) and combined with that provided by other
businesses that participated in the study, has been used to identify some of the reasons for empty container
movements and quantify the number of genuine movements. These genuine reasons, in general, result from
imbalances in container demand. These genuine empty container movements are, in effect, determined by
the movements (or the mismatch) of full containers, as shown in the following sections.