Beijing is running a two-year pilot programme to open China’s coastal container trades to international liner operators.
Under the People’s Republic of China’s International Ocean Shipping Regulation non-Chinese international operators are not allowed to operate on the shipping business between Chinese ports.
The regulation clearly states: “Foreign international shipping operators may neither operate the shipping business between Chinese ports, nor operate the shipping business between Chinese ports in disguise by such means as using the rented Chinese vessels or shipping space or exchanging the shipping space.”
