China's LPG Carrier Shipping Market Analysis And Its Fleet Development Study

This article is mainly investigating Liquefied Petroleum Gas(abstract as LPG) market and the development of LPG fleet of our country.There are mainly three parts in this article.The first part particularly discusses the characteristic of LPG cargo and analyses the source of them. It also introduces the shipping, handling and storage of LPG as well as the security conditions during nandling and the basic requests.On the basis of the analysis on LPG market and shipping demand, the second part makes a forecast of LPG market which emphases on importation quantit}- and the demand of consumption. Making use of the TSP software, it has been validated, and the forecasting result is consistent with the result fr jm the relating department of some provinces, cities and the country.The third pan is the most important pan of the essay, and it mainly debates the development programming of China's LPG fleet. It makes a selection and confirmation of ship styles, and discusses four ship styles and calculates 63 projects in detail. After analysis and comparing, I select four projects, make certain the hiring period conditions of the price of shipbuilding, then put forward suggestions of the trade, shipping policy and fleet development in order that the decision-making department may make use of them.