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International maritime industry: the broken cage chicken Ben ocean

Publish: 2016-06-04  Views: 913
Editor's note: This year, October 1, the new China celebrate the 60th year anniversary. With the Republic of the pace of growth, 60 years of shipping, ports, railways, highways and other logistics facilities from scratch, from small to large, from simple to refined, change and progress for all to see happen. These changes to China's national economic development, protect the business running smoothly, play a fundamental role and supportive. Laid-open this newspaper column, review, inventory, review new China was founded 60 years ago, the field of transport and logistics fronts feats and glory.

60 years ago, from Muping export several tons of peanuts to how Japan's difficulties: the first to use human peanut small carts transported to Yantai, and then packaged and put in wooden boxes, but also into the greaseproof paper liner inside wooden boxes, to prevent moisture. And then wait for that elusive little steamer, Huangdao Shanghai in the storm, and then exported to Japan.

After 60 years, Yantai has sailing to Japan, peanuts do not have to put into a wooden box every day, no longer need greaseproof paper, everything is so simple and smooth. Not only to Japan, even to the United States, Yantai also has a direct container shipping route.

60 years, China's ocean shipping industry traveled road, a true reflection of the changes in China's national strength, reflecting the Chinese break cage fence, toward the ocean course.

Break the cage fence May 27, 1949, People's Liberation Army liberated Shanghai, Shanghai Military Control Commission took over the Merchants, has 77 years of China's largest shipping company --- Modern Steamship finally returned to the hands of the people.

After the founding of China seagoing tonnage of the world's total share of less than 0.3%. And after the founding of new China, due to the blockade and embargo of international hostile forces, but also hindered the development of China's ocean shipping industry.

After the liberation of Shanghai, Shanghai withdrawal of foreign shipping companies, the United States, Britain, France and other countries to limit their vessels to Chinese ports, so that China's ocean shipping almost unnavigable. In this very difficult conditions, the new Chinese government led the people to work hard, and gradually break through the blockade.

June 15, 1951, the Polish government and the Chinese government formed a joint venture Polish Joint Stock Shipping Company, the first to open China to Europe route, taking the first step of the new China Ocean Shipping.

In 1956, the Far East trade union feet of water (FEFC) monopoly agreements reached with the Japanese ship owners, shipping lines would exclude non-public, the implementation of a two-tier system, the liner tariffs on Chinese routes generally 10% increase in China's foreign trade created a very negative effect.

To this end, since 1958, Sinotrans, the generation system started a "tariff struggle", the use of sources of foreign trade, not to take less to guild liner picking approach, with whom there is justified struggle Festival, Nu Horizons has attracted more than three wild, wave, stream, Eastern shipping companies ship anchored in Dalian, Shanghai and other ports, finally forced the "Far East Association of feet of water," as the Chinese side accepted the shipper of tariffs, creating a history of international shipping freight struggle to achieve victory precedent.

April 27, 1961, China Ocean Shipping Company officially announced. The next day, China Ocean Shipping Company Guangzhou Branch was set up, the first ship flying the flag of the People's Republic of China "brilliance" her fate, after a grand inaugural ceremony held bound for Jakarta, Indonesia and Hong Kong Overseas Chinese Passion pick in Guangzhou Huangpu Port home.

1960s, seventies ocean-going fleet of large-scale development period. During this period, China COSCO industry broke the hostile forces of the new China's heavy blockade, the shape of the building of the fleet, opened up to the world, to an ocean routes.

December 1964, Premier Zhou's instructions, the COSCO company for the first time in accordance with international practice use of bank loans to purchase "Dawn" freighter, since then, COSCO started accordance with the "loan to buy a boat, profit repayment" mode, self-reliant development of offshore fleet .

May 1967, COSCO Guangzhou Branch "Dunhuang" wheel set sail from the port of Huangpu, bound for Western Europe, marking the opening of the new China's first international liner routes.

By the end of 1975, COSCO fleet total tonnage exceeded 500 million tons. State-owned fleet growth, making China's foreign trade cargo transportation in the proportion of leased outer declining, import and export of goods in large quantities by ocean-going vessels flying the flag of the carrier by the international shipping peer attention.

September 26, 1978 China's first aircraft container shipping, COSCO Shanghai branch of the "flat Xiangcheng" wheel loaded with 162 containers from Shanghai towards Australia, breaking the international container transport of "zero" record. Marking China Ocean Container transport operators from the official start.

"A reform, benefits will come up."

"These people are still people, land, or the land, a reform of benefits on the table." This is the August 1986 Deng Xiaoping visited Tianjin, the Tianjin Port certainly change. This assessment still applies today.

Benefit from the reform and opening up spring thunder, China's ocean shipping industry began a new development. With the gradually straighten out the institutional reform, the reform of the shipping company operating mechanism becomes relatively simple and fast. In 1993, China's largest international ocean shipping group --- China Ocean Shipping Group and China's largest river shipping group --- China Changjiang National Shipping Group were established. In 1997, China Shipping Group officially listed in Shanghai, China's coastal shipping bear.

Followed by deepening reform. COSCO Group, China Shipping Group, CSC gradually breaking the original closed, artificial division pattern, so that water transport market truly "mobile" and began through rivers and seas.

Today, these shipping companies have completed construction of a professional fleet with different types of standard goods, dry bulk carriers, small container ships, oil tankers, gas carriers, special ships, ro, ro-ro and other goods vehicles sub-market has been established and developed, by means of professional fleet Corporation's unified brand strategy, the development of economies of scale, intensive management advantages, the international competitiveness of crescendo.

Our country in international container liner shipping company set up by COSCO Group, grew to more than 180 in 2008, the ship has gone from COSCO "flat Xiangcheng" fail to get to 200 million cases TEUs and above leap. COSCO, CSCL is the representative of our country's container shipping company, has long been among the world's top 10 shipping companies, routes covering the entire Chinese coast, Asia, Europe, the Americas, Africa and the Persian Gulf and other major trading regions of the world.

China is the world escort

In the 1980s, the global container lines have largely been funded international shipping company control. COSCO Container Transport Development Division at the beginning, they put the capacity to enhance and adjust routes and run the organization started simultaneously, in parallel, the implementation of the ship, the fixed line, fixed schedule to run, based on Chinese mainland has opened up global transport network.

In particular, in April 1988, the Hong Kong - US West changed weekly container liner, welcomed by the owner, the foreign media have exclaimed, "China Shipping are making strides to catch up."

In 1999, COSCON injection on the Japanese route "Green Express Service" concept, to accurately route service hours while launch schedule, delivery, transit, communications, transfer certificate, personal services and cargo tracking guarantee truly " the day arrived, the day of the supermarket shelves, "provides favorable conditions for China's foreign trade.

Although the CSCL Established late, but in less than 10 years, container shipping fleet has been among the world's top ten, created the myth of the industry. As of August 2009, CSCL fleet totaled 148 ships, the overall carrying capacity of nearly 50 million TEUs. Each vessel carrying capacity of more than 4,000 TEUs of more than 71 large vessels, with an average age of only 4.59 years, the total capacity of 84.20%.

First half of 2009, with China Sinotrans Group and China long voyage Group's restructuring, China ocean shipping industry entered a new phase shift from integrated logistics carrier, depth to China's foreign trade chain.

Meanwhile, China's total foreign trade share of global proportion, by the reform and opening up less than 1% to more than 8%. In the amount of more than 7% growth in maritime traffic bear about 90%, has become an indispensable economic development of strong support.

Shipping volume surge, accelerated the process of upgrading maritime transport capacity, navigate to four oceans by shipping companies control and ownership of the 300,000-ton oil tankers, bulk carriers and million TEU container ship is not uncommon.

60-year anniversary of New China, China already has a fleet of ocean-going freighter 230,000 deadweight of about 60 million tons, ranking fourth in the world, flying the flag of the Chinese ship to and from more than 150 countries and regions, more than 1,200 port, ocean transportation relation not only to the Chinese people each, more related to people's lives in many countries over the world, China's integration into the world of a powerful guarantee.