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1. The carriage of goods by sea is the main mode of international trade transport.

Although the international maritime transport of goods has the shortcomings of low speed and high risk, it has become the main mode of transport in international trade because of its large capacity, large volume, low freight, and strong adaptability to goods, as well as the unique geographical conditions of the world. China's total import and export cargo transport 80% ~ 90% is carried out by marine transport, due to the rise and development of container transport, not only make the transport of goods to the collection, rationalization direction, but also save the goods packaging materials and transportation costs, reduce the cargo damage difference, ensure the quality of transport, shorten the transport time, thereby reducing the transport cost.

2. Marine cargo transportation is one of the important channels for the state to save foreign exchange payments and increase foreign exchange earnings.

In China, freight expenses generally account for about 10% of the total import and export of foreign trade, especially the proportion of freight for bulk goods is greater, if the trade makes full use of international trade terms, for our more ships, not only save the payment of foreign exchange, but also can strive for more foreign exchange income. In particular, China's transport capacity into the international shipping market, and actively carry out the transportation of third countries, to create foreign exchange income for the country. All countries in the world, especially the coastal developing countries, attach great importance to the establishment of their own ocean fleet and the development of marine cargo transportation. In some shipping developed countries, foreign exchange freight income has become an important pillar of the national economy of these countries.

3. The development of the maritime transport industry is conducive to improving the country's industrial structure and the structure of international trade export commodities.

Marine transportation is realized by the practice of navigation activities, which are based on shipbuilding, navigation technology and skilled seafarers. Shipbuilding industry is a comprehensive industry, and its development can promote the development of iron and steel industry, shipbuilding equipment industry, electronic instrument and meter industry, and promote the improvement of the industrial structure of the whole country. From the original ship importing country, China has gradually become a ship exporting country in recent years, and is moving towards the ranks of major ship exporting countries. Due to the continuous development of China's navigation technology, the crew's expatriate labor has attracted the attention of all countries in the world. With the development of marine transportation industry, China's ocean shipping fleet has entered the top 10 in the world, which provides conditions for large-scale ship breaking industry in the future. It not only provides cheap raw materials, energy saving and consumption of imported ore for China's steel mills, but also can export scrap steel for export. It can be seen that the development of marine transportation industry can not only improve the national industrial structure, but also improve the commodity structure in international trade.

4. Marine transport fleet is an important reserve force for national defense

The ocean shipping fleet has always been used as a means of logistics transport in wartime. The United States, Britain and other countries called the merchant fleet "the fourth service except land, sea and air", and the merchant fleet of the former Soviet Union was also called "shadow fleet" by western countries ". It can be seen that it plays a role in the outcome of the war. It is precisely because maritime transport occupies such an important position that countries all over the world attach great importance to maritime shipping, protect it through legislation, support and subsidize it financially, and give preferential treatment in terms of cargo loading.