China still tops box lifter, but Shanghai, HK, Shenzhen losing
grounds to second tier ports

CHINA's big three container ports, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Shenzhen, have enjoyed a container throughput growth of 289 per cent from 1997 to 2007 that accounted for 64.5 per cent of Chinese volume in 2001 with Hong Kong alone contributing 39.3 per cent of it.
But as manufacturing has moved from the coast and spread inland where labour is more affordable, second tier ports of Ningbo, Qingdao, Tianjin, Xiamen, Guangzhou, Dalian, Yingkou and Lianyungang - still in China's top 10 - are enjoying the big growth - 14.7 per cent in 2007-12 against 4.1 per cent for the big three.....>More
 

Hong Kong's investment in major capital projects promises
great regional growth

CONNECTING Hong Kong with Macau and Zhuhai is an old idea because it has always been desirable to have better links with both sides of the Pearl River that inconveniently splits Guangdong province into distant halves.
While there are many short sea connections, the idea of another land route to the Chinese hinterland has had strong appeal, noted in a recent article published by the Massachusetts-based American Journal of Transportation. … >More
 

Shanghai's 12pc river trade boost shows infrastructure
upgrades get inland goods to market

CONCRETE evidence is emerging that China's deep commitment to infrastructure building in the last decade is paying off in answering the call to have the wealth of the coastal regions move inland to less affluent interior.
This evidence comes with the news that the Port of Shanghai's river-sea intermodal container transshipments have increased 12 per cent year on year to 7.6 million TEU in the first half, faster than the port's total container volume that posted 2.9 per cent growth rate..... >More
 

Shanghai has its free trade status, now others want it too
with Guangzhou leading the pack

WHILE there is concern that the new Beijing leadership is becoming more rigid politically, warning all against yearnings for representative government or western cultural values, there also appears to be a countervailing liberalising influence in trade and commerce.
Recently, the Chinese cabinet, or State Council, approved of Shanghai becoming a free trade zone (FTZ) after it had won Ministry of Commerce approval to allow trade to be conducted in ways in which officialdom plays less of a role - "deregulation with Chinese characteristics", so to speak.. .... >More
 

Sino-Vietnamese direct transport to deepen China-ASEAN
cooperation

CARGO moving between China and Vietnam once had to go through complicated procedures and be reloaded onto trucks from the country before they could be carried to the destination. -
But in recent years there has developed direct trucking between the two countries, eliminating the need of unloading and reloading, greatly cutting time and cost, and deepening logistics and trade cooperation between China and ASEAN countries, Xinhua reports..... >More