It is interesting to note that, as expected, the sea leg is the most important leg
constituting 94 percent of the total journey by distance, but only 49 percent of the
total transport cost. Other charges (including Customs) represent more than 29
percent of the total transport cost whereas road transport comprises 22 percent of
the total transport cost. The price obtained through this route is the highest
(3,420 USD/TEU) of all the routes with the longest transit time (31/32 days), but
is quite representative of trading routes where the freight flows are not very
important and subject to very strong imbalance. Currently there are only three
scheduled feeder ships from Singapore with a capacity of 300-350 TEUs calling
at Danang per week, whereas Singapore as a global hub has main line connection
to Europe every day. Terminal handling charge is still quite minimal at the
moment at only 1 USD. Figure 3 shows the movement graphically