China Logistics News Roundup: March 30, 2009
Monday, March 30, 2009 7:12Posted in category Uncategorized
Air
China’s Private Airlines Succumb to Competition They Created
China Eastern Airlines to introduce “public air bus”
Water
China Shipping Container, Shanghai Port Shares Climb
Ports
Background: History of Shanghai shipping center
Rail
High-Speed Trains Cut Travel Time to Central China and YRD
IBM hops aboard high-speed rail
Two high-speed Chinese rail links start April 1
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Craig says:
March 31st, 2009 at 12:14 am
China’s private airlines created competition, and then succumbed to it? 🙂
ian channing says:
March 31st, 2009 at 7:16 am
I am curious as to how Chinese the hexie hao high-speed trains actually are. An ex-SOE (steelmaking) manager I talked to last year said that although they used some foreign hi-tech, the Chinese could now make and export high-speed trains independently. But a Chinese engineer I met working for Hitachi in Japan said that vital systems–air pressure regulation, signalling among others–still had to be foreign-made. Does anybody know if China can make and export bullet-type trains independently?
Rich says:
April 2nd, 2009 at 3:23 am
Craig.
yeah – I guess that about sums it up. Apparently, no one studied the histroy of the US airline market before designing the Chinese one.
R
Rich says:
April 2nd, 2009 at 3:24 am
Ian
Everything I have read, and seen, points to the fact that while they are able to design and assemble, there are still key systems that they cannot do.
If you look at auto, airplane, construction equipment, it is the same.
R