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From on 1° January navigation on water the internal ways of China it will be classified exclusively to Chinese ship and enterprises
In the first nine months of the 2012 production of the Chinese ship yards it is diminished of 18.5%
October 23, 2012
The Council of State of the Chinese Popular Republic has promulgated the decree number 625, that next 1° January will take effect, based on which navigation in the internal water ways of China, is for the transport of the passengers that of the goods, will be classified to operated ship of Chinese flag from express authorized Chinese societies from the national authorities with the concession of an appropriate licence. The decree includes also the auxiliary services to the transport, as those of ship management and marine agency.
Draft evidently of protezionistiche measures that the Chinese government motivates with the objective to conform the operativity and the management of the transport activities on national the fluvial ways, to safeguard the market of the national transport on the navigable ways, to safeguard safety of the inland navigation and to promote the national development of the transport for fluvial way. Moreover the scope – the executive specifies – is protect the market of the inland navigation from the monopolies and the treacherous competition.
The norm excludes from these activities the foreign enterprises, to which it is prohibited also I use it of Chinese ship in order to exercise such services, with exception of those of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan and of the respective ships.
While the ministry of the Industry and the Information Technology of Beijing has announced that in the first nine months of the 2012 production of the national ship yards it is diminished of 18.5% regarding the same period of 2011 coming down to 41.580.000 gross capacities in tons, for total 12.360.000 tons of compensated tonnage. In the first nine months of this year the new orders to the Chinese ship yards have been relative to 15,41 million gross capacities in tons (6,32 million tslc), with a decrease of 46.9%. The pocketbook orders of the Chinese ship yards on 30 September piled to 120,9 million gross capacities in tons (40,34 million tslc), with a bending of 19.4% regarding the end of 2011.
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The Council of State of the Chinese Popular Republic has promulgated the decree number 625, that next 1° January will take effect, based on which navigation in the internal water ways of China, is for the transport of the passengers that of the goods, will be classified to operated ship of Chinese flag from express authorized Chinese societies from the national authorities with the concession of an appropriate licence. The decree includes also the auxiliary services to the transport, as those of ship management and marine agency. 
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
