Study On Alumina Import And The Port Selection Problem Of China

Aluminum products are important industrial products of modern life, its production method is bauxite to alumina to electrolytic aluminum to aluminum material or other aluminum products. With the increasing demand for aluminum products of china, as one of the basic raw material for aluminum production, Alumina will increase with the growth aluminum products demand. The raw material bauxite of alumina industry are non-renewable resources, China's bauxite reserves account for only 2.77% of total world, However, the exploitation quantity accounts for 8% of total world. At the present speed of mining, China has proven reserves for only 10 years, The raw material supply support capability of alumina industry is increasingly prominent weakening.With the rapid development of China's alumina industry in recent years, increased imports of bauxite, however, the scale of alumina companies generally smaller, production technology is relatively backward, the cost of production is higher 50% than the international average. It will be the future inevitable trend that import higher value alumina in the context of aluminum products increased. In recent years, the imports of alumina from Australia(especially from western Australia) is accounts more than 80% in the total imports of alumina, in 2009,the imports of alumina rebounded, the first ten month, imports from Australia reached 90.4%,Australia have absolute dominant position in the source of China's alumina imports, so the study of port selection has a profound significance in China's imports of alumina from Australia.In the article, firstly analyzed the world's bauxite resources and their utilization, then combined with China's bauxite resources to propose the development strategy of bauxite resources and alumina; Secondly, analyzed china's alumina imports market and trading conditions, According to China's imports of alumina over the years, predicted China's alumina imports in the next few years; thirdly, contact imports of alumina from Australia reality, introduced the handling port of imports alumina from western Australia, evaluate the conditions of the main alumina loading and unloading port in china, eventually reached the ranking of loading and unloading port of alumina, that is Lianyungang, Qingdao, Zhanjiang, Rizhao, Fangcheng and Tianjin.Give some suggestions to China's alumina imports enterprises in the choice of loading and unloading port.