On March 5th, Losangeles is located in the southern city of Long Beach Convention Center Meeting Hall All seats are occupied. Nearly 1800 from the United States, China and other countries in the maritime, logistics, trade, services and other fields entrepreneurs held here, trans Pacific Ocean Shipping annual conference.
International container shipping industry is often regarded as an important window of the international economy and the international trade situation. Affected by the world economic downturn, the container shipping industry in 2010 into a historical low, many companies in the state of loss to maintain operations. In 2011, although the international container shipping industry has improved slightly, but the imbalance between supply and demand, vicious competition, rising costs and other issues still make the enterprise faces a huge challenge.
The new year, the international shipping companies how to move in the vast sea? This is a lot of participants want to get the answer from the annual meeting of the industry.
Remarkable is that China's enterprises, China issues in this industry's Annual General Assembly held a significant position. COSCO Group, China Merchants International Chinese enterprises signs and billboards in major corporate logo and conference brochure advertising pages occupy a prominent position. This year will also set up a special issue on China's branch, for the participants to understand the relevant industry trends in china.
COSCO Group Chairman Wei Jiafu was invited to deliver a keynote speech at the conference. "The spring of the international container shipping industry is about to come, I am full of confidence," he said in an interview with Xinhua after the speech. "My confidence is based on the judgment of China and the United States economy. The U.S. economy is steadily recovering, the Chinese economy to maintain steady growth. China and the United States are the two largest economies in the world, the largest developing country and the largest developed country, the two national economic growth will push the world economy out of the crisis."
As the world's second largest shipping companies, COSCO Group is taking practical action to contribute to the recovery of the world economy. Wei Jiafu used various international occasions to promote the idea of COSCO, called on the international maritime enterprises to work together to control the capacity, rational treatment of freight, improve the relationship between supply and demand. For this year will be awarded to him, the maritime industry leader award, Wei Jiafu said, this shows that Chinese enterprises are playing an increasingly important role in the international peer leadership.
According to the data provided by the conference organizers, in the second quarter of last year, China accounted for 47% of the total U.S. container imports, almost any significant change in China will affect the North American container supply chain. This is the Chinese enterprises, China's economic situation in the trans Pacific Ocean Shipping will be the main cause of concern. China's economy is the engine of the development of international shipping industry." Wei Jiafu said.
Annual meeting of the host, the conference organizers United States, "business news" Senior Vice President Peter. Loftus weir of the Xinhua News Agency reporter said: "now, including COSCO, many Chinese companies operating in the United States, for the United States to provide maritime industries such as services, to provide employment opportunities for the Americans, they trade in the U.S. economy and beauty to make a contribution, their efforts are gaining recognition of the United States from all walks of life more and more."
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