中國航運發展報告-chapter one chinas shipping a review of 2000 and a preview of (文件)

　

【正文】 rst national shipping exchange in China jointly anized by the Ministry of Communications and Shanghai Municipal People’ Government. The founding of the Exchange is a decisive measure adopted by the central government to foster and develop China’s shipping market and to support the building of Shanghai international shipping center. The Exchange is a nonprofitmaking institutional corporation to provide trading floors, facilities, information as well as other services for shipping business transactions. The basic functions of the Exchange are: to regulate the transactions on the shipping market, adjust freight rate on the shipping market and municate information on the shipping market. Pursuing the principle of “Transparency, Equity and Fairness”, the Exchange plays a role of example guiding the development of the national shipping market with its new market service and standardized management so as to realize gradually the grand objective of establishing a unified, open, petitive and regular socialist water transport market. Since its founding in November, 1996, the Exchange has scored great successes in providing prehensive services to the shipping market, anizing and procuring filing of freight tariff, coordinating freight rates, issuing shipping information, conducting research on shipping policies, publishing and issuing the Chinese freight rates index and establishing Shanghai Shipping Service Center etc. 1. To promote actively the construction of Shanghai shipping information center with information service as the focus Since the successful publishing of the Chinese Export Container Freight Rates Index (CCFI) by the Exchange to the Fareast and the world shipping market for 3 years, CCFI has been published respectively by China Central TV Station and Shanghai TV Station and been carried in more than 20 magazines and newspapers, both international and domestic. This has not only broken a zero record in the Chinese maritime transport freight rates index, but also borne a profound impact on the position of China as a major shipping power in the world, which has aroused great attention of the shipping circles, both international and domestic. CCFI and Baltic Dry Bulk Cargo Freight Rates Index have been honored as the two significant shipping freight rates indexes in the world. On the basis of successful pilation and publishing of CCFI, the Exchange has pleted the research of pilation of China’s Coastal (bulk cargo) Freight Rates Index – the ninth fiveyear plan key scientific and technological project of the Ministry of Communications, which will be soon published to the public. The pilation and publishing of China’s Coastal (bulk cargo) Freight Rates Index will play a quite important role in spurring the healthy and orderly development of the coastal shipping markets after the overall opening of the water transport freight rates. The “Report on China’s Shipping Development”, the key project of the Ministry of Communications, has been piled by the Exchange. The initial publishing of the Report in 1999 has filled in the gaps in the fields of shipping industry and it is the indispensable requirement for China to bee the shipping power in the world. The annual Report introduces the status quo of the shipping development and the development of the shipping market for each year in an overall, systematic and plete way. The publishing of the Report has fully displayed the achievements after China’s reform and open policy and increased the transparency of China’s reform and open policy to the outside world. It has played an excellent role in making the world further know the development of China’s shipping industry and promoting the exchange of China’s shipping with the world shipping industry, which has aroused attentions of the countries in the world. The blue book of China’s shipping – “The 20xx to 20xx Report on Investigation and Forecast of Water Transport Cargo Shipment, is the authentic annual report on cargo sources for water transport in China, which is anized by the Ministry of Communications and piled by the Exchange. This Report makes an overall, plete and objective introduction and forecast of 8 major modities such as containers, coal, iron ore, petroleum, grain, fertilizer, minerals and timbers. The information covers 23 provinces, municipalities directly under the Central Government and autonomous regions, and es from more than 200 government departments, factories, mines, and social service entities. Shipping Exchange Bulletin – the marking magazine for construction of Shanghai International Shipping Center, is the magazine of high quality provided by the Exchange to the shipping circles in China, which is published in weekly edition of 100 16 mo paper sheets. The Magazine carries shipping policies, rules and regulations, market development, filed freight rates and latest shipping economical information etc. which has played an active role as the public opinion guidance and dissemination and bee the reliable reader for shipping and trading enterprises. The Exchange caters to the needs of the society and has actively participated in and provided numerous remarkable information researches, such as investment of FOB shipments in the Shanghai market, construction and development research of Shanghai shipping market, development research of Shanghai port in the new century, research on highspeed construction of Shanghai international shipping center, etc. The Exchange has collected, piled, recorded and gathered more than 120xx pieces of information for Information Table for International Shipping Industry of the People’s Republic of China and has provided a hundred of shipping panies and agencies with the invoice management software exclusively specified by the National Taxation Bureau and the Ministry of Communications. 2. To bring to ful