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Logistics Demand Analysis of Yangtze River Shipping:

The region along the Yangtze River spans the three economic zones of East, Central and West China. 2004, the six provinces and two cities along the river, namely Sichuan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Anhui, Jiangsu, Chongqing and Shanghai, realized a GDP of 5,230,563 million yuan, and a total retail sales of consumer goods of 1,725,360 million yuan. The total retail sales of consumer goods amounted to 1725.36 billion yuan, and the total amount of foreign trade import and export amounted to 364.53 billion dollars, and the economic development has created a huge demand for logistics. The total cargo volume of the Yangtze River trunk line exceeded 300 million, 400 million and 600 million tons in 2003, 2004 and 2005 respectively. The average annual growth rate of cargo throughput of major ports is 23.2%. Predicting the logistics demand along the river, analyzing the Yangtze River shipping logistics market has an important role in guiding the development of the Yangtze River shipping.

The total logistics volume of the Yangtze River is the sum of the demand for transportation, warehousing, distribution, processing and other logistics operations of enterprises along the river. For convenience, the scope of analysis of logistics demand in Yangtze River is defined as the total amount of logistics transportation in the whole society (total amount of transportation) and the total amount of inventory processing in the whole society (total amount of inventory for short).

Logistics Demand Analysis of Yangtze River Shipping

Yangtze River Shipping has a perfect storage and transportation system, with a wide range of terminal and warehouse facilities, and a more complete communication, navigation and information technology system to provide convenient information transfer. After years of construction, the specialized transportation system of coal, ore, petroleum, container and ro-ro vessels of the Yangtze River Shipping has been initially formed, and occupies an important position in the comprehensive transportation system along the river.

From the point of view of the composition of port cargo throughput, coal, oil, metal ores and non-metallic ores, mining materials and other traditional bulk cargo is still the main type of cargo. However, with the industrial structure adjustment and optimization and upgrading, the growth of bulk cargo demand is slowing down, and its proportion will gradually decline. Iron and steel, cement, especially the suitcase general cargo throughput has faster growth, the proportion will rise steadily.