China Transport and Logistics: Port of Shanghai, Dalian, Tianjin, Guangzhou, Ningbo

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.

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.

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, and is also China’s largest comprehensive port and one of the country’s most important gateways for foreign trade.

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.

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.

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.

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, shiprepairing, terminal operation, trade, financing, real estate and 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.

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