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The Yangtze. The future of cargo growth in China SAM CHAMBERS. World Ocean Forum, Busan. China’s inland waterways. Fastest grower. While port volumes across China’s coastline become accustomed to single digit growth … The Yangtze steams ahead Throughput grew 26% last year along the river - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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 aheadThroughput grew 26% last year along the riverAnd 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
credentialsPort will have 7 m teu capacity by 2015
Chengdu: Ancient city turned IT hub
Manufacturer of 20% of the world’s computersHome of the iPadAirport has fastest growing air cargo volumes
in China
Wuhan: China’s nexus
Cargo bullseyeWhere the north – south rail and the east-west
Yangtze intersectPort 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 industryPorts are the most advanced logistics
infrastructure in the country Yangtze will be central to freight development
in China