诱人的中国物流市场

The total value of China's domes tic logistics in the first quarter of 2004 arrived at 8.21 trillion yuan (US$993 billion), 31.7 percent higher than the corre sponding period last year, according to statistics from the national logistics information center.     

China＇s logistics market：the road to wealth

The total value of China‘s domes tic logistics in the first quarter of 2004 arrived at 8.21 trillion yuan(US＄993 billion). 31.7 percent higher than the corresponding period last year, according to statistics from the national logistics information center.     

Review and pros-pects ofr China''''s economy

The Chinese economy grew 8 per cent in 2002. The speedy growth of China's economy in 2002 was fuelled by booming exports and the central government efforts to stimulate domestic demand. Preliminary figures from the National Bureau of Statistics suggest that the country's gross domestic product (GDP) reached 10.2 trillion yuan (US$1.23 trillion) in 2002, an increase of 8 per cent from the previous year. 2002 is a year for which we have a whole host of things to rejoice over, to remember, and to toast. The momentous 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, which selected a new leadership for our country, was the biggest event on China's     

China's logistics reform imperatiue

Despite current achievements and a possible 30 per cent growth rate in the coming years, China's logistics market is still fledgling and muddy, said Ding Junfa, vice-president of the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing. Logistics is an important ingredient for a country to succeed in a globalized economy, said Alan Waller, president of the United Kingdom-based Institute of Logistics and Transport, world's leading logistics certifying organization. China is reviving up efforts to solve bottlenecks haunting the country's logistics industry, officials say. "We are expected to come up with a set of new rules and policies to clean up industrial monopolies, excessive administrative intervention and regional protectionism," said Ma     

China Adopts Measures to Maintain the Momentum of Economic Growth

While the global economic growth rate has slowed down since the beginning of this year, China's economy has reported continuous rapid growth, with the GDP rising by 7.9 percent in the first six months. China's overall economic situation has remained sound. This year, the initial year of the new century, marks the beginning of China's 10th Five-Year Plan. The Chinese Government has adopted a series of measures to stimulate economic growth. It has adhered to the principle of enlarging domestic demand, continued to implement the proactive fiscal policy and the steady monetary policy, and maintained the consistency of its policies and the necessary intensity of enforcement. It has followed the principle of focusing on development through economic restructuring, breached the traditional thinking of seeking balance in grain     

Window to China

China's first shipbuilding quality stan-dard releasedn 27th December 2005, the Commis-sion of Science, Technology, and In-dustry for National Defence promul-gated the quality standard for Chineses hi pbui lding aft er 3 y ears ’development. As the first …     

Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of COSCO

It has been more than two decades since the Port of Seattle welcomed to our harbor the first ship flying the flag of the Peoples Republic of China. Since that first visit from the Liulinhai, which came here for a shipment of American wheat, the Port of Seattle and COSCO have been strong business partners and good friends. COSCO's ships have carried much more than cargo over the past 22 years. COSCO ships, and COSCO employees, have helped build relationships as well as     

Will More Shipping Enterprises Encounter Loss in Future?

According to the statistics from the Chinese Association of the National Shipbuilding Industry (CANSI), from January to April of this year,main business income of China's medium and large shipbuilding enterprises was 190.1 billion RMB, up 27％compared with the same period of last year; The total profit was 14.2 billion RMB, up 23.8％ compared with the same period of last year. The profit ratio of sales of medium and large enterprises reached 7.5％, 1.3％ higher than the national average level. On the surface, the above statistics indicate that the current economy of China's shipbuilding industry runs smoothly with a relatively good benefit performance. However, if we analyze these statistics with those in the previous years, we will find that the payoff situation of China's shipbuilding enterprises is still worrying.     

China's logistics industry on fast track

A lthough many Chi nese businesses stilldeliver their products to retail-ers themselves, China's profes-sional logistics industry hasbeen growing at a rocketing an-nual rate. The three countries, China,Japan and South Korea, boast-ing big trade volumes, showmuch potential for co-operation. TNT will grow as a com-pany with China, and to helpChina grow with activities in-strumental to the further eco-nomic development of China. Standardization will helpimprove the efficiency of logis-tics an…     

Port law offers equal opprtunity 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.     

Chinese shipbuilding industry at the turn of strategic transformation

At the end of August 2007, the national shipbuilding industry work meeting was held in Qingdao, Shandong province. The meeting is the first of its kind since the adoption of China's reform and open-door policy. Officials and experts from 17 ministries and bureaus including COSTIND, ministry of finance, commerce, agriculture and communications as well as banking industries and maritime universities took part in this pageant of shipbuilding industry.     

Why Do Foreign Investors Favor China''''s Market

China has led developing countries in direct foreign investment for eight consecutive years, with an inflow of more than US$40 billion of international capital annually. China has become a real hotspot of investment favored by worldwide investors. What is the role foreign investment has played in China's economic development over the past years? According to an analysis report recently released by the National Information Center, during the two decades between 1980-99, of the 9.7-percent average annual growth rate of the GDP, 2.7 percentage points were contributed directly or indirectly by foreign capital utilization. 1. How Does Foreign Capital Stimulate China's Economic Growth?     

CHINA''''S SOE REFORM SCALES NEW HEIGHTS

State-owned enterprises (SOEs) in China have stepped out of the mire of the past and the reform of the nation's SOEs is set to deepen. The performance of China's SOEs in 2002 is far better than in 2001. Especially, the achievement was made against the backdrop of a global economic slowdown in 2001 and 2002, when the global trade volume and investment declined. Against such a backdrop, it is not easy     

MARINE ECONOMY, CHINA''''S NEW ECONOMIC GROWTH POINT

The 21st century faces three ma jor problems: a rapidly increasing population, a shortage of resources and a deteriorating environment, and should look to the sea for solutions. China has an 18,000-kilometres mainland coastline. There are more than 5,000 islana's in China's territorial waters, each with an area of more than 500 square     

论中国现代物流业的发展

Along with the increasirng globalization of world economy and foreign trade, transnational corporations intend to procure their resctuces and distribute their products thoughout the entire world. This parallels the trend of globalization in the development of morden logistics, that is, logistics must be effected with a much more wider geographic coverage.     

环球航贸

COSCO overfulfilled its target on trade volumes in the first half COSCO Group achieved excellent performance in the first six months of this year. The total seaborne trade volumes during this period recorded up to more than 100 million tons, accounting for 66 percent over the planned figure. The group also carried out 61.1 percent of its ration on road transportation sector and 55.5 per-     

Learning to Run

In Africa, there live antelopes and lions.In the morning, the antelope wakes upfrom sleep. His first sense is that he has torun faster than the fastest lion, otherwise, hewill be eaten out. In the meanwhile, whenthe lion opens his eyes, his first thought ishe must run faster than the slowest antelope,otherwise, he will starve to death.Internationally, there are many companies,which disappear before the sunrise of thenext morning, because they run too slow andare washed out by the throat-cutti…     

Price of Bulk Carrier Seems to Hit Bottom

Bulk carrier has the biggest sustained volume in the global fleet,with an annual turnover of new ships exceeding 100m DWT between 2006～2010.Especially in 2007 when the market was at its peak time,new ship orders reached 170m DWT.After the financial crisis,demand for new ships plunged,and orders for new ships in 2011 were less than 40m DWT.In the first three quarters of 2012,only 13.1m DWT were ordered.Although the turnover of bulk carrier is still in the first place,it is not a comparison to the past.     

IN BRIEF

Logistics in western China becomes new hot point for shipping industry The sustained and fast growth of Chinese economy, China having 'one foot in the WTO' virtually as well as the strategy of developing western China and so on, have offered infinite commercial opportunities for the continuous prosperity of shipping industry. AP Moller Group, the giant in the logistics industry, has marched into Chengdu, Sichuan Province, where the Group is very likely to build the largest logistics company in western China. Being perfectly in harmony without previous