China has world's fourth largest vessel fleet
Capacity of mainland China's commercial vessel fleet has surpassed 60 million deadweight tonnes and became the fourth largest in the world, said Hu Hanxiang, director of Cross-Straits Shipping Exchange Association.
The mainland now has 13 ports whose throughput is over 100 million tons and a shipbuilding capacity of 14.52 million deadweight tonnes which is the third largest in the world and accounts for 19 per cent of the world's shipbuilding market, Xinhua reports.
The mainland now has 13 ports whose throughput is over 100 million tons and a shipbuilding capacity of 14.52 million deadweight tonnes which is the third largest in the world and accounts for 19 per cent of the world's shipbuilding market, Xinhua reports.