The YangtzeThe future of cargo growth in ChinaSAM CHAMBERS

World Ocean Forum, Busan

China’s inland waterways

Fastest growerWhile port volumes across China’s coastline

become accustomed to single digit growth …

The Yangtze steams ahead

Throughput grew 26% last year along the river

And an almost identical growth rate is predicted this year and next

In China, freight development of emerging areas is often best seen in air cargo numbers – along the Yangtze air cargo volumes are growing fast

Ship evolution

TGD: Three Gorges Dam

Chongqing: The world’s largest municipality

Export powerhouseRising IT hub to add to its automotive

credentials

Port will have 7 m teu capacity by 2015

Chengdu: Ancient city turned IT hub

Manufacturer of 20% of the world’s computersHome of the iPad

Airport has fastest growing air cargo volumes in China

Wuhan: China’s nexus

Cargo bullseyeWhere the north – south rail and the east-west

Yangtze intersect

Port has 5m teu aspirations

Grand return2,500-year-old Grand Canal links Ningbo with Beijing

Set for major upgrade whereby draft will be 5.5 metres

Not just an export storyLatest five-year-plan calls for greater Chinese

consumerism

In 2015, China will bring to the global arena a total of 150m consumers most of which will be spending close to $40,000 in annual incomes.

China will become the world's largest luxury goods market by 2020

China is on track to have a 700% rise in income in just 20 years

Logistics pitfalls18% of China’s GDP is spent on logistics

Too fragmented an industry

Ports are the most advanced logistics infrastructure in the country

Yangtze will be central to freight development in China