Posted on 09/09/2008 2:58:43 PM PDT by Flavius
It was a tiny entry in the Aug. 17 online edition of People’s Daily, China’s most influential newspaper. The headline read, “East China port does booming trade with Africa.” The port in question was Longkou, in bustling Shandong Province, which is preparing to launch two additional ocean carrier routes to Africa later this year.
In the past seven months, the article quoted Shandong Provincial Bureau of Port Shipping Services as saying that 41 ships carrying cement and “sundry goods” — machinery, electronics, chemicals, textiles, garments and leather products, all of which are manufactured in Shandong — left the port bound for African nations. Cement exports to Africa through Longkou totaled 970,000 metric tons in those seven months, a whopping 30 percent of China’s worldwide cement exports in the period, the article said.
Other Chinese ports are experiencing a similar boom to and from Africa, from mega- and breakbulk shipments to containerized, reefer and heavy-lift cargo. In July, Safmarine Container Lines started a monthly multipurpose vessel service from Zhangjiagang, China’s largest river port, and Tianjin, the country’s second-largest general port after Shanghai, directly into West Africa. The service calls at ports in Angola, Cameroon, the Republic of Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Sao Tomé and Principe, South Africa and Togo.
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China knows something about sweat and blood labor management.
The natives certainly don’t seem to be able to utilize the continents resources. I say if we don’t have the stones to go in let the chinese spend the time and money making that continent into something useful.
well i hear they are patient
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