SHANGHAI, July 13, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Shanghai ranks
as one of the top three international shipping centres with
world-top container throughput, optimizing collecting and
distribution system as well as improving business environment,
Xinhua-Baltic International Shipping Centre Development Index has
shown.
With container throughput of Shanghai Port ranking world's first
for ten consecutive years, Shanghai, among other Asia-Pacific shipping hubs, is gaining ground
in terms of global shipping resource allocation, according to the
index report released in North Bund of Shanghai Saturday.
By evaluating development level of international shipping centre
cities based on port conditions, shipping services and general
environment, the index presents this year's top ten international
shipping centres are Singapore,
London, Shanghai, Hong
Kong, Dubai, Rotterdam, Hamburg, Athens, New
York-New Jersey and
Tokyo.
Rankings over the years show that Singapore continued its crown followed by
London, with Shanghai rising to the third through
strengthening shipping hardware and software constructions and
Athens climbing to the eighth
driven by Belt and Road developments.
The world is seeing centre of economic gravity and international
shipping moving east, with 11 Asian cities, 61.11 percent of Asian
rated samples, rising in rankings this year compared to 2019.
In particular, Shanghai has
seen improving port hardware facilities along with "soft power"
breakthroughs of supply chain nodes and high-end shipping service
integration. Meanwhile, the number of maritime law firm partners in
Shanghai reached 629 in 2019,
ranking the fourth in the world, while nearly half of the world's
top 100 container enterprises set up branches in the metropolis. In
the meantime, Shanghai's shipping
insurance business scale surpassed traditional insurance center
Hong Kong for the first time.
Against the spread of COVID-19, the index report charted
shipping heatmap which showed harder hit on container shipments by
the pandemic than crude ships and bulk carriers.
Container transportation is recovering in Asia especially East
Asia, the report pointed out.
The pandemic has forced digital transformation in processes and
data exchanges at ports which would improve dock optimization and
trade promotion in the future, predicted International
Association of Ports and Harbors (IAPH).
Xinhua-Baltic International Shipping Centre Development Index
was first launched in 2014 by China Economic Information Service
(CEIS) of Xinhua News Agency and the Baltic Exchange, and has been
gaining international influence since inception.
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