10-01-2014, 01:30 PM
(10-01-2014, 01:02 PM)Temperament Wrote:(10-01-2014, 09:48 AM)Greenrookie Wrote: Hi buddies,i use to have similar thinking until i find out it's cheaper for a ship from Indonesia to ship to Singapore then to China or anywhere else in the world, then shipping directly. There must be many reasons why this is so. Why?
There is a question on my mind which I have problem understanding.
Singapore is the 2nd or 3rd busy port in the world, so the goods are definitely not for Singapore alone.
What would a ship call Singapore a port, and then let the goods load to another ship to go to asean countries, why not go straight to the nearest port of destination? Like go straight to Thailand, Malaysia or what you have?
Is Shenzhen really competing with Shanghai? Will goods mean for delivery at guangzhou area be send to Shanghai? Doesn't make sense isn't it? So they are competing for goods for other areas, but don't other areas have their own ports too??
How did Singapore manage its port status with such a small domestic market??
We all need to draw back to the numerous Free Trade Agreements we had with numerous countries to thank for. In this FTA, it is basically cheaper to ship tru us as a transshipment node then others.
Think of those numerous trucks out from China, awaiting ships out from HK. Bar those big taxes, companies have to pay if they go tru the nearest china port. So thus, HK port makes the logical choice.