Our paper contributes to literature regarding ship deployment in
container liner shipping by several facets.Firstly the development
of the flee twill be summarised in detail.Secondly we do empirical
analyses to see effects of carrying capacity and ship size on firms'
financial indicators,not only total revenue and cost but also unit
revenue and cost.Thirdly economies of ship size have been of ten
studied to evaluate their potential cost saving,our analysis takes
account of their in fluenceon financial performance of CSLs