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