A Study On China's Tanker Fleet Development

This paper is mainly composed of such contents: it predicts oil flow capacity and its evolution law on world major oil trading line in the future 10 years yet to come by investigating and analyzing world main oil trading line, its flow direction and flow capacity; it analyses trading line natural conditions and port loading/unloading capacity. The paper also studies the present situation of world tanker fleet and their management mode. And last the article sums up the basic principle and law for developing ocean tanker fleet.By combining China's oil shipping reality on international trading line, the paper aiso studies the development layout of oil shipping fleet, and puts forward the basic principle of optimizing fleet structure and the basic method for ship type demonstration, and even the way of selecting the best ship type by means of quantitative analysis. On this basis, the paper shows the best ship type on major oil shipping route, the technical and economic analysis and the blueprint of COSCO's overall development plan for tanker fleet.On the whole, this topic-selection mainly focuses on the practical issue of how COSCO develops its tanker fleet.