Crude/Product Carrier Ship Type Demonstration

With the rapid development of world economy, according to energy consumption structure, and the urgent requirement for decreasing environment pollution, the demand for oil will continue to increase in the future. The huge demand of ocean shipping petroleum capacity need a huge tanker fleet. In China, domestic produced oil volume can not meet the need of economic development at all, and the demand for import oil has showed the tendency of steady increase. China has become an oil import country. The steady expansion of oil import shipping market has provided sufficient cargo resource guarantee for developing the national-class ocean tanker fleet, and the right moment for China's shipping industry to develop tanker fleet has matured. So far, China's large oil carrier has still been a blank space. Generally speaking, domestic tanker fleet tonnage is rather small and ship age tends to be too old. What is more, many old-age tanker have extended service. So, it is very difficult for them to compete with foreign advanced tanker fleet. What sort of tanker fleet we should develop, so we can seize the opportunity, participate in the competition of future sea borne oil market and obtain the best economic benefit, this is an important problem confronting ocean shipping company in China.The article has collected data/information concerning total crude and products trade, tanker fleet productivity, tanker fleet deliveries and deletions, developing of new building market, etc. On the basis of this, the article has taken Middle East桱apan trading line as an example, had a deep study of the method of technology and economy demonstration of large oil carrier and had an analysis and comparison of different ship type plan, by means of computer calculation. So, the article has deduced the best ship type plan which suitable for the specified trading line. Hopefully this can provided certain science method for new building investment of China's ocean shipping companies.