This study surveyed influential factors affecting toward ocean freight service provider selection of Japanese automotive industry. Researcher conducted research rely on top five Japanese automotive companies in Thailand, the questionnaires was sent to 10 respondents per company, equivalence to 50 completed questionnaires and 100 per cent of respond ratio. The influential attributes of the study were carefully extracted from twenty-eight previous researches and literatures, the study was conducted in accordance with assumption that the decision of selection ocean freight service provider refers as dependent variable and the five influential factors refer as independent variable.