Lecture title: The transformation of world shipping in the post-epidemic era and the new opportunities for the development and utilization of Arctic shipping routes
Speaker: Cai Meijiang, Senior Engineer/Director
Lecture time: 13:30-15:00, October 09, 2020
Lecture place: 109 Haike Building, Shanghai Maritime University
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Current, novel coronavirus still spreads in the whole world, world economy is suffering all have blow. With the exception of China, all major economies are in relatively large recessions. Global supply chains are also on the eve of adjustment. This adjustment will bring new changes to world shipping.
In the context of the Ice Silk Road jointly built by China and Russia, opportunities and challenges coexist. Polar ship design, polar navigation support services, and the construction of Arctic transit ports are the future directions of international cooperation in Arctic shipping routes. Due to the special polar environment, low-ice class ships or merchant ships will face many risks and difficulties when sailing into the polar ice areas. For example, the navigable environment is bad, the ship and the ice collision and ice trapped, the ice formation sailing experience is insufficient, the crew fatigue driving and the ice situation forecast is not accurate.
This report analyzes the changes in the global economy and China's economy, as well as the direction of changes in world shipping from the perspective of global changes. Through practical analysis, this paper creatively proposes to construct the Arctic container pendulum line, and promote the efficiency improvement and cost reduction of global maritime transportation.
Brief introduction of the speaker:
Cai Meijiang, captain of COSCO, senior engineer, adjunct professor, is currently the full-time external director of China COSCO Shipping Group and a visiting professor of Shanghai Maritime University. He is appointed as a member of the Chinese Society of Navigation, a member of the Petroleum and Petrochemical Safety and Emergency Committee of the Chinese Society of Emergency Management, and a member of the Polar Science and Technology Expert Committee of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China. He graduated from Shanghai Maritime University (then Shanghai Maritime University) in 1982, studied MBA from Guanghua School of Management, Peking University in 1998, and graduated from Dalian Maritime University as an on-the-job master of transportation planning in 2013. He used to work in ocean-going ships and Panama. Since 2008, he has been working at the headquarters of COSCO Shipping Group and its affiliated companies. He has been engaged in maritime safety, risk management and polar navigation for a long time. Since 2012, he has been mainly involved in the research of the Polar Safety Navigation and Emergency Support System, and participated in the work of the Arctic Agenda Council of the World Davos Forum. He has been awarded the Outstanding Contribution Award of Panama Shipping, the Honorary Pilot Award of Panama Canal, the Gold Award of Panama Maritime University, the Model Worker of China's Central Enterprises, the First Prize and the Grand Prize of the Progress in Marine Science and Technology of China Maritime Society, etc.