China Port Industry Report Reveals Cargo Output to be 3.447 Billion Tons

Source: Researchmarkets

DUBLIN, Ireland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/e3b4ba/china_port_industr) has announced the addition of the "China Port Industry Research Report 2007" report to their offering.

The Chinese main ports from January to August in 2007 have completed the cargo output 3.447 billion tons, which were up 15.7% compared with the corresponding period last year, and the containers’ throughput has completed 71.9706 million TEU, up 23.1 per cent year-on-year; the expectation of China’s container throughput will exceed 100 million TEU in the whole year 2007.

There is still a certain gap between the existing port through put capacity and the demands from domestic and foreign trade growth. Therefore, there will be more ports are required in the next few years.

The integration of resource is a certain stage for the port industry development and it will become a long term trend in China port industry

Apart from the external expansion through the extension of the port capacity and improve performance, also, how to increase the rate of terminal operators are one of the most effective means to improve the performance.

Key Topics Covered:

The smooth growth of industry profits

- Port throughput maintains a steady growth trend

- GDP and foreign trade growth is the main sources of growth

- Throughput maintains growth, the ports in north part of China have grown up rapidly

- The fastest growth is the container throughput

- The profit of listed companies in Port industry has grown steadily

Port expansion, asset integration is the development trend

- Port is in an accelerated expansion phase in China

- Demand: current port capacity is hardly to meet the growth of Chinas economy and foreign trade

- Supply: China is accelerating port construction

- Resource integration is the trend of the development in port industry.

Analysis the core port companies

- Tianjin Port

- Shenzhen Chiwan Wharf Holdings

- Yingkou Port