Jiangdong's maritime service industries setting sail

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Category: Ningbo Business

Published: Monday, 31 October 2011 08:51

In Hengfeng Creative Square, a new office building with an area of more than 2,000 square meters is the Ningbo Dongfang Shipyard Co., Ltd., and more than 60 designers are working hard there. After 10 years’ development, the shipping capacity designed by this company has reached to 52,000 tonnages. It has become the most competitive class A ship designer in Zhejiang. Other ocean science and technology service industries like Ningbo Dongfang Shipyard Co., Ltd. have also taken the lead in seizing the highland of blue economy.
Having neither coastal resources nor neighboring port or sea, how could Jiangdong develop a marine economy? “According to the ‘Marine Economic Development Plan of Ningbo City’, by 2015, the contribution rate of the ocean science and technology should reach 70%, so vigorously developing and supporting ocean science and technology service industry in Jiangdong will have a bright prospect.” District party secretary Hu Jun said.
In the industry chain of developing marine economy, bulk cargo trading platforms play a pivotal transitional role. Jiangdong has strived to develop bulk cargo trading platform based on finance, science and technology by means of improving logistics service and building trade platform. The world renewable resources electronic trade platform designed by Ningbo Weishi Information Consulting Co. Ltd. has possessed 120,000 professional members and 8,000 suppliers abroad, and its visit quantity has increased to 200,000 every day. In Jiangdong, the number of companies doing bulky commodity wholesale trade has reached to 856, with a year-on-year increase of more than 100.
We must use informatization to drive marine economy development. The staff in more than all shipping logistic companies in Jiangdong will receive text message about the trade news, freight rates, pallet and port, etc. This is a new service offered by Jiangdong logistics information science technology public service platform. Jiangdong will build a “digital port” through relying on Ningbo electronic port and the fourth party logistics platform. Ningbo electron port, being started to run formally in 2009, has joined 6,850 companies, published 720,000 pieces of news and realized a total of one billion yuan in trade volume, which tremendously stimulates the market vitality.
Furthermore, Jiangdong district has taken the lead in promoting alliance in the technological innovation of ocean-related industry. They have built a technological innovation alliance in three industries, and they are coastal logistics industry, waterway information service industry and blue sea design industry. They also promote to break through key technological bottlenecks through joint efforts of industry, university and scientific research institution. At present, the alliance of these three industries has worked jointly with Ningbo University.
According to incomplete statistics, from January to September, the sale turnover of Jiangdong ocean science and technology service industry has exceeded 10 billion yuan, which gradually manifests its important role in boosting marine economy.