Reasonable allocation of empty containers can reduce the liner company’s operating costs and improve its market competitiveness. This paper analyzes the Chinese port and proposes a transit dispatching strategy in merging of cabins to deal with the allocation of empty transportation containers considering the transportation costs, handling costs, leasing costs and transporting constraints. The objective is to minimize transporting costs. This integer linear programming model allows transit of an empty container with the transport of heavy container under the premise. By solving the model we get a result better than the one obtained from that a traditional scheduling mode.In addition, we analyze the results and developed appropriate dispatching strategies. The model has a strong guiding significance for the empty container’s reposition.