文档介绍：Chapter one China’s shipping: A Review of 2000 and a Preview of 2001
The year 2000 witnessed the rare high increase of cargo volume after years’ recession in China’s water transport under the favorable domestic and international environment. Both the cargo shipping volume and the port throughput rose tremendously. The increase surge of the port throughput hit the recent ten-year highs. The annual growth rate of the international container throughput of the main ports registered a surge of percent, maintaining an average annual growth of over 20 percent for 13 consecutive years. The supply being greater than the demand of carrying capacity has been greatly moderated. The freight rate has risen up largely and the cargo transport volume plished by the main shipping enterprises has been increased in a large surge. The economic benefit of shipping enterprises has turned better evidently.
The year 2001 is the first year of the tenth five-year plan in China. The national economy will still keep steady, rapid and healthy development. Under the macro background of China’s imminent accession to the WTO and the international trend of resource allocation, it is estimated that the increase of the GDP will still reach percent in 2001 and the import and export growth of foreign trade will be about 15 percent with the import higher than the export.
A rough forecast of China’s shipping market in 2001 is offered here: China’s shipping will maintain a fairly high rate of development in various aspects on the basis of the year 2000. Cargo volume, cargo turnover and port throughput will still be increased gradually. It is estimated that the coal export increase will reach over 15 percent, the iron ore import 10 percent, and the oil import a little more; container port throughput will reach 28 million TEUs, with the annual growth rate of over 20 percent.
In order to promote the healthy and steady development of China’s shipping industry, petent authority in charge of tr