This Day, That Year
China Daily | Updated: 2017-07-03 06:59
Item from July 3, 1989, in China Daily: A Chinese cargo ship left Shanghai's port for South America on June 28. This is the first time that China has opened a regular ocean shipping route to the region.
Chinese shipping companies have been expanding overseas networks amid rising demand, driven by the country's fast economic growth in the past few decades.
In addition to the traditional shipping lines between Asia and Africa, and China and Southeast Asia, major lines between Asia and Europe, and Asia and North and South America have also opened.
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