风口浪尖出精兵--记CCS上海分社"共青团号"的验船师们

China Classification Society (CCS) Shanghai Branch has a survey team named with eight young people, aged 30. The team was assigned by CCS Shanghai Branch to conduct ship survey in Hudong Zhonghua Shipbuilding (Group) Co. Their excellent work has won a wide recognition and was honored “Ship Survey Pioneer”. With excellent technology and team work spirit, they have offered satisfactory services to customers. In recent years, this team has fulfilled over 10% of the total shipbuilding tonnage in China.     

海险遭遇挑战

On 3 May 2003,a COSCO cargo carrier “Fu Shan Hai“ collided with a Polish containership in the sea east of Denmark and sank later. It was reported that the insurance premium for M/V “Fu Shan Hai“ is as high as US＄30m. It is the ever large claim case in the marine insurance history of the People‘s Insurance Company of China (PICC). Though PICC launched its emergent compensation procedure and paid 70m yuan (RMB) to COSCO, this is far from enough to fill the hole. The “Fu Shan Hai“ accident gave a hard strike on the marine insurance market, worsening the difficult situation of marine insurance in China. In recent years, we have often heard the calling for making China a “large shipping and shipbuilding nation“, while our marine insurance market has been in stagnancy, which disappoints those insurance tycoons who have been kept waiting for long time.     

CHINA AIMS AT WORLD'S NO 1 SHIPBUILDER

China is expected to become the world's largest shipbuilder by 2015 after launching shipyard projects in Shanghai and Guangzhou. China now is the world's third largest shipbuilding country, following South Korea and Japan. "The aim is to build 15 million deadweight tons (DWT) of ships at the two shipyards," said Li Zhushi, vice-president of China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC). Li told an international maritime forum     

ABSTRACTS

The China Shipping Prosperity Index （CSPI） for the third quarter has climbed 15 points from the second quarter to 101.7 points, back to positive territory, which is above 100 points, according to the latest report form Shanghai International Shipping Institute （SISI）. This is the first time since the third quarter of 2011 that the CSPI returned to above the critical level. In the past two years, withering trade and overcapacity pushed the Chinese shipping industry down to a historical bottom. In the third quarter of 2012, when the CSPI fell to only 78 points, about 60 per cent of carriers in China suffered severe loss. Since the second quarter of this year, the Chinese government＇s policies to secure growth have taken effect and spurred an obvious growth in the country＇s investments and exports, which brought hope to the shipping market. The Baltic Dry Index has risen to over 2,100 points by far, a sharp increase of 180 per cent from the beginning of this year. The index surged nearly 80 per cent in September. The container shipping industry also shares the general improvement of the market. Since July, there have been several attempts to introduce rate increase. The spot rate from Shanghai to Europe was once more than doubled. Part of the carriers might be able to reverse their loss in the third quarter. However, the recovery might not be sustainable, as China is very likely to be able to meet the GDP target of 7.5 per cent growth and there will not be further policies to boost domestic economy. Meanwhile, the rebound of rates has stimulated deployment of new tonnage. Statistics show, capacity on Asia-Europe lane grew about three per cent in September but demand is not stable. The supply-demand imbalance caused a decrease of over US$100 per TEU in the container shipping rates in the last week of September.SISl＇s report estimated that the CSPI in the fourth quarter will be 99.56 points, falling again below the critical level. In face of such challenges,     

The Present Situation and Future Prospect of the World Shipping Industry

Ⅰ. Shipping After entering into the 1990's, the ship-building industry, badly affected by the long recession of the world shipping market, has been growing very slowly, while the competition has been a fierce one. From the shares enjoyed by the major shipping countries in the world, we can see that the first one is Japan which occupied 38%; South Korea came to the second,obtaining 15％; the third is Germany, being 8%. The shipbuilding industry in America is shrinking, owing to the high cost of production. Up to 1993,Japanese ship yards had still been in difficult situation, and many Japanese ship owners would rather order new ships from South Korea because the rising value of Japanese yen made it expensive to build in domestic yards. Nowadays, Japanese shipbuilding industry is exposed to the problem of scarce of labour force. The Korean shipbuilding industry, whose     

Large marine crankshaft offers China a step forward to shipbuilding power

Shipbuilding industry is known as the top of all industries. The world No.1 shipbuilding country has been the long-cherished wish for China. With the continuous increase of economic and technical strengths, China's dream of becoming the world No.1 shipbuilding country seems to come close. However, crank-shaft as the heart of engine which is the heart of large-size ships often makes us in the state of embarrassment. Now, after some twists and turns, in terms of large marine crankshaft, China has broken through the technology barriers set by foreign crankshaft manufacturers and can make our own heart for large-size ships. Though domes-tically produced crankshafts can't meet our demands at the moment, it will give our people more imaginations be-cause Chinese shipbuilding industry has now had the strengths to gallop the world.     

China shipbuilding industry encountered cold snap from soaring steel price

In recent years, with the recovery of worldeconomy, China's shipbuilding industry hascome to its prime time. The shipbuilding or-der has been snowballing. However, the con-tinuing price rise in steel strikes a heavy blowto China's shipbuilding.Steel price…     

船东“恐高”为哪般

Recently, as reported by the media, industry people expressed their concern about the descending of new building standards on the International Shipbuilding Conference sponsored by Lloyd＇s List in Athens. Strange enough, on the Shipping China Energy 2008 Conference held in Shanghai not long ago, participants conveyed the same concern about this issue. Is this a reflection that shipping market has come to a transition point or does the current shipbuilding quality really worry the shipowners or it has something else to drive at？     

用于船舶机械的自动管道布线优化（英文）

In the shipbuilding industry, market competition is currently operating in an intense state. To be able to strive in the global market, the shipbuilders must able to produce ships that are more efficient and can be constructed in a relatively short amount of time. The piping layouts in the engine room requires a lot of time for the designer to design the best possible route and in a way are not the most efficient route. This paper presents an automatic piping support system in the ship’s engine ...     

Chinese shipbuilding growing from a sheep to an elephant

Increasing capacity scares others In mid-late1990s, China overtook Germany for the first time be- coming the 3rd largest shipbuilding country in the world. Though domestic industry sources were proud of this change, China was also confronted with differen…     

中国集装箱港口发展分析

Over the recent ten years,China‘s container transport has witnessed a tremendous development side by side with china‘s successful development of foreign trade,owing to the fact that more and more coastal and inland river ports have gone for container transport in succession,     

The Change of Maritime Industry

The year of 2012 has left people many unpleasant memories,i.e.the news related to the deficit of shipping enterprises lingered in our ears,the shortage of ship orders and bankruptcy of shipping enterprises appeared one after another,and a fierce battle was once again waged among the shipbuilding industries of China,Japan and South Korea in the downturn.In 2012,the legendary year of doomsday,who on earth can survive in the face of hardships? According to a saying,poverty gives rise to the desire for change,and the shipbuilding industry will seek change in the downturn of shipping market.     

High Consumption for Ship Equipment Troubled Chinese

2004 seems a good year for ship-building industry of China. It is esti-mated that the total amount ofnewbuildings to be completed in2004 will reach 8m dwt, accounting for 15% ofthe world total tonnage. It is expected thatnewbuildings to be completed in 20…     

游艇业梦始何方

Chinese Yacht development is just at her primary stage.In 2002,the export volume of Chinese yacht industry only reached over 17 million US dollars,while each year the total international yacht sales amount to 25 billion US dollars.Imagine what a prospect will it be if the Chinese yacht industry can take 5-7% the international market like that of the Chinese shipbuilding industry ?Yacht industry contains hi-tech as stated by the industry sources.For the burgeoning Chinese yacht industry,it is still a dream to come out into the international market.However,the efect of grouping together is probably something where we can start with our dream.     

Water resources development in Turkey

The Southeastern Anatolia Projec(tGAP),one of the most important projects for developing remarkable natural resources of the world,is accepted as a change for getting benefit from rich water and agricultural resources of the Southeastern Anatolia Region.The GAP Project has been considered as a regional development projects through years,but the dimensions of sustainability,protection of environment and participatory have been attached to the master of the project in recent years.When the GAP Project is completed,the Upper Mesopotomia, the centers of many civilisation,will re-again its importance as it had in the ancient times,and will be alive a center of civilisation.Moreover,when the problem of water shortage and water supplies in the world for the future is kept in mind,the importance of Southeastern Anatolia′s water supplies will be doubled.For this reason,the GAP Project,developed by depending on water and natural resources of the region,will have an important place in the world.The aim of this study is to introduce the region with rich natural resources and the GAP Project.For this reason,firstly,the natural potential of the region will be introduced.Second,the GAP Project will be presented in details.In the third stage,the projects being processed for protecting the natural sources and environment will be analyzed.In the last stage,strategies and policies to develop and to protect the natural resources of the region in short,mid,and long terms will be proposed.     

CHINA AIMS AT WORLD＇S NO.1 SHIPBUILDER

China is expected to become the world‘s largest shipbuilder by 2015 after launching shipyuard projects in Shanghai and Guangzhou.     

Chinese shipbuilding industry is climbing up the summit of the world

Market share:the base for Chineseshipbuilding to get onto the topAs stated in the Programme,by2015,China's shipbuilding proportion in the glo-bal shipbuilding volume will increase to40%from the current18%,overtakingJapan;By2020,China will exceed Koreaand …     

offers equal opportunity to all

More than 90 per cent of China‘s for eign trade goes through ports. In 2002, the number of containers handled by Chinese ports amounted to 37 million TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units), about 30 times the volume of 1989. China hopes to increase the capacity of its national ports to 3 billion tons by 2010.     

ABSTRACTS

＂Opinions＂ issued by the Ministry of Transport P.R. China recently
Approved by the Ministry of Transport P.R. China, ＂Several Opinions about Promoting the Healthy Development of Transformation and Upgrading of Shipping Industry＂ （hereinafter referred to as ＂Opinions＂） has been issued recently. The ＂Opinions＂ is made up of 20 articles, containing the five aspects of capacity regulation, transformation and upgrading, market supervision, reducing the burden of enterprises and improving the service level. The aim is to deal with the current severe situation faced by the shipping industry actively, promote the steady and healthy development of the shipping market in China. The content of the 20 pieces of opinions is really solid, with high maneuverability. In a word, the ＂Opinions＂ provide timely help to the shipping industry in ＂cold winter＂. Each enterprises should know how to combine their own actual situation with the specific implementation. Generally speaking, the larger scale the enterprises have, the greater benefit they will get.P18     

A comparison of Chinese,Japanese, and Korean shipyard production technology

This paper compares Chinese, Korean, and Japanese shipyard production technology. Development in the world shipbuilding over recent years has influenced focus areas related to shipyard manufacturing technologies and product performance. Software systems, information technology, production technology, and local challenges of shipyards are compared with shipbuilding outputs among these three countries. Various technologies developments, shipyard production and the problems in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean shipyards are discussed respectively. Finally, future areas of research are pointed out.