Analysis On Timber Import Market And Timber-Ship Type Demonstration

With the rapid development of China's national economy , China's demand for timber will continue to increase .In order to protect the natural envirenment, the government make up the policy of "protetion of natural foerests".Therefore domestic produced timber volume can not meet the need of economic development at all, and the demand for importing timber has showed the tendency of rapid increase . The rapid expansion of timber import shipping market has provided sufficient cargo resource guarantee for developing the national-class timber fleet and the right moment for China's shipping industry to develop timber fleet ,has matured . At present , China's timber import transportation market is not in good order.Generally speaking , domestic timber fleet tonnage is rather small and ship ages tends to be too old .What is more , many old-age timber ships have extended services.Therefore it is very difficult for them to compete with foreign advanced timber fleet. According to market analysis , we can know which ship type is the best,and then gain more profits.This is an important project confronting ocean shipping company.The article has analyed the present situation of international and national timber market . On basis of this , the article has analysed and forecast the demand of China's timber import , by adopting the method which combined quantitative forecast and qualitative forecast and provided my advice on development of timber import transportation routes.The article has taken PAPUA NEW GUINEA-ZHANG JIA GANG trading line as an example , had a deep study of the method of technology and economy demonstration of timber carriers . According to an analysise and comparasion of different ship type plans , we can know which is the best .This method can provide certain theoretical basis for ship investment of China's shipping industry.