CHINA PORTS UPDATE: SEVEN DEVELOPMENTS TO WATCH

摘要

Here's an interesting statistic: The world's largest municipality isn't Tokyo or Sao Paolo or Seoul. It's Chongqing, a metropolitan area of more than 30 million people in the middle of China. That's a noteworthy number by itself. But it's all the more notable for what it means to logistics managers tasked with charting freight movements to and from China. Situated about 1,300 miles inland, Chongqing already is a massive and highly diversified manufacturing hub. As such, the city will become an increasingly important export source for everything from automotive parts and chemicals to electronic components. Most of that output will travel down the Yangtze—which helps explain why Shanghai, at the river's mouth, is tipped by some sources to become the world's largest port by 2007.