Doing Business in China:
China - Chinese economy - Customs of China
- FDI in China -
Beijing - Shanghai - Greater Pearl River Delta (GPRD) -
Guangzhou - Shenzhen - Hong Kong
Course summary (China: Marine transport and ports):
Chinese logistic sector. Port of Shanghai situated at the middle of the long Chinese coastline (18,000 km), where the Yangtse River (Golden Waterway) ...China's coastal ports enable the transportation of coal, containers, imported
iron ore, and grain; roll-on-roll-off operations between mainland and islands;
and deep-water access to the sea. Freight volumes handled by some large ports
exceed 100 million tons a year; and the Shanghai, Shenzhen, Qingdao, Tianjin,
Guangzhou, Xiamen, Ningbo and Dalian have been listed among the world's top 50
container ports. At present, it comes to being three levels of container ports:
container main route ports which include 8 ports of Dalian, Tianjin, Qingdao,
Shanghai, Ningbo, Xia’men, Shenzhen and Guangzhou, feeder ports around those
main ports and minor local ports.
China becomes the most important container import
export country in the world.
Port of Shanghai is situated at the middle of the 18,000km-long
Chinese coastline, where the Yangtse River, known as "the Golden Waterway", flows into the sea. It is the leading port in the T-shaped waterway network
composed by the Yangtse River and the coastline. Port of Shanghai is the
China’s largest comprehensive port and one of the country’s most important
gateways for foreign trade. Port of Shanghai serves vast hinterland in the
Yangtse River Delta and the entire Yangtse River valley. The annual import and
export trade through Shanghai, in terms of value, accounts for a quarter of
China’s total foreign trade.
Shanghai International Port (Group) Co., Ltd. is the exclusive
operator of all the public terminals in the Port of Shanghai.
Ningbo Port is well situated in the middle of China’s coastline, at
the T-shaped joining point of China’s coastline and the Yangtze River. It’s a
famous deep-water port of mainland China. It enjoys unique natural conditions
with convenient traffic reaching in all directions. Outwardly the port links
East Asia and the whole round-the-Pacific region. The port has remained the
second in cargo throughput and the 4th in container throughput in China (world’s
top 11th)
Example of the course China: Marine transport and ports:
The Port of Shenzhen is one of the busiest and fastest growing ports
in southern mainland China. It is located in the southern region of the Pearl
River Delta in China's Guangdong province. It is the economic hinterland for
Hong Kong trade with the Mainland and also one of the most important port in
terms of China's international trade.
Port of Guangzhou is the largest comprehensive
hub port in South
China. With the impetus from the fast growing economy in its hinterlands, Port
of Guangzhou keeps a sustainable increase in cargo volume. It’s China’s third
port to register annual traffic in excess of 400 million tons, after the Ports
of Shanghai and Ningbo. Guangzhou has become a bridgehead for global logistics
giants to make inroads into the Chinese market.
Port of Qingdao is the world’s largest port for inbound iron ore,
China’s largest port for inbound crude oil, and China’s 2nd largest port for
international trade. It boasts the world’s highest productivity for the
handling of container and iron ore.
Port of Dalian is located at the central point of Northwest Pacific, center of the arising Northeast Asian economic circle, the gateway for this
region to the Pacific and the rest of the world. With broad space and deep
water, free of ice and silt, the Port has superior natural conditions, the most
convenient seaport for the transshipment of cargoes between Far East, South
Asia, North America and Europe.
Port of Tianjin is the largest artificial port in China. It is the
gate of Beijing and Tianjin, and an important trade port in northern China.
In 2010, the total throughout will reach 10 million TEUS.
COSCO. Founded on April 27, 1961 as the pioneer of international
shipping carrier in China, together with the reconstruction of national
transportation resources on February 16, 1993, China Ocean Shipping (Group)
Company (COSCO) has grown into a $17 billion corporation by clearly focusing on
the goal of enabling commerce around the globe. It is an international giant, specializing in shipping and modern logistics, serving as a shipping agency and
providing with services in freight forwarding, shipbuilding, ship repairing, terminal operation, trade, financing, real estate and Information technology (IT) industry as well with
an aim at taking one of the leading roles in these areas.
China Shipping Container Lines Company Limited (CSCL) is the fastest
growing and world leading major container shipping company with its headquarters
in China. It is principally engaged in the operation and management of international as well as domestic trade lanes.
Sinotrans Ltd operates logistics as major
business, with an integration of ocean transportation, land transport, airfreight, warehousing and terminals, express services, shipping agency and
freight forwarding. In 2003 and 2004, Sinotrans consecutively held number one in
the China’s top 100 International Forwarders, and in 2003 won the Best Asia IPO
prize.
By the end of 2004, the total length of highways open to traffic
reached 1.871 million km, including 34,300 km of expressways up to advanced
modern transportation standard, ranking second in the world.
On a global basis, China's rail transport volume is
one of the world's largest, having six percent of the world's operating
railways, and carrying 25 percent of the world's total railway workload.
China had 133 airports for civil flights. In 2004, the turnover of airfreight
reached 7.18 billion ton-km, the passenger turnover was 178.2 billion person-km, and the volume of freight traffic 2.767 million tons.
EENI In Chinese: 硕士:
国际商务，全球营销 和 外贸
China, transport, Logistics, Port of Shanghai, Dalian, Tianjin, Guangzhou, Ningbo, Chinese coastline, Yangtse River, COSCO, Chinese, logistic, sector, Master, international business
EENI International Business
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