 China has an 18,000-km-long coastline and over 6,500 islands. The Bohai, Huanghai, East, and South seas line up side by side in the east and south of the country forming vast waterway to other parts of the world. Some world-class seaports have been built in the past few decades like Shanghai, Ningbo, Tianjing, Guangzhou, Qingdao and Shenzhen, running busy international and domestic routes to connect the rest of world and their each other. Shanghai Harbor ranked the third largest port in the world since 2003.
On the other hand, China is also rich in inland water transport resources. Large rivers running from east to west with their north-to-south branches link most of the country’s waters, forming a natural river network. There are over 50,000 rivers with a drainage area above 100 square km each and a total length of 430,000 km. Together with over 900 lakes, they provide favorable conditions for inland shipping. In China, inland waterway transport is mainly operated in the Yangtze, the Pearl River, the Huaihe River and the Heilongjiang River systems.
Information about shipbuilding of China:
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In 2005 China’s shipbuilding has achieved record-breaking 12.12 million gross tonnages, a 12% rise compared with the previous year, which took 17% world market share. Now China has overtaken Japan and become the second largest country of the world in shipbuilding. |
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