金融赋能航运

finance empowers shipping

2021年9月15日,基于区块链技术的数字平台全球航运商业网络联盟(GSBN)吸引了三家银行加入,组成联盟贸易金融顾问小组。航运界的这条新动态进一步彰显出航运业和金融业之间的共生关系。探索航运业与银行流程的互联互通,打破供应链和贸易融资之间的隔阂,已成为释放全球贸易新价值的关键,这不仅是GSBN将要践行的使命,也是航运业和金融业面临的共同课题。

On September 15,2021,the Global Shipping Business Network Alliance(GSBN),a digital platform based on blockchain technology,attracted three banks to join the alliance’s trade Finance Advisory Group.This new development in the shipping industry further highlights the symbiotic relationship between shipping and finance.Exploring the interconnectivity of shipping and banking processes,and breaking down the barriers between supply chains and trade finance,has become the key to unlocking new value in global trade.This is not only the mission GSBN will fulfill,but also the common task facing the shipping and financial industries.The realization of trade is based on shipping,the development condition of shipping is finance,and the service demand of finance is transaction.At present and for some time to come,China’s national economy is shifting from high-speed growth to high-quality development,and a new development pattern with the major domestic cycle as the main body and the double domestic and international cycles mutually reinforcing is accelerating.The demand for finance in all fields,including the shipping industry,will continue to expand.This issue of Maritime China focuses on different business forms and innovative practice cases of shipping finance from different angles and levels,and reveals its future development trend.The first essay:shipping finance helps shipping industry navigate rough seas.Shipping finance moves from history to future with the cyclical fluctuations and ups and downs of shipping economy.After more than 700 years of development,all kinds of shipping finance businesses have become mature and formed the finance of the whole industrial chain.The main businesses include:investment in construction of ships,ports and waterways and financing of shipowners,etc.,as well as Marine insurance,capital settlement,shipping price derivatives and carbon trading products.The main bodies engaged in shipping finance mainly include shipping enterprises,ports,shipyards,banks,securities,funds,trust and leasing,insurance and insurance brokers,factoring,dealers of commodity and derivative business,and investors of all kinds.In recent years,finance has provided a number of supports to the shipping industry.The second essay:green finance is a new driver of decarbonization of the shipping industry.Shipping is a capital-intensive industry,and ship financing can provide financing for ship construction,buying and selling,leasing,operation and dismantling.Therefore,the long-term development of the shipping industry is inseparable from ship financing,which plays a very important supporting role in the development of the shipping industry.At present,with the global carbon peak,carbon neutrality goal of continuous progress,ship financing is developing toward the direction of green.Under the background of the continuous release of relevant policy dividends,green financial innovative products in the blue ocean industry are constantly emerging,and more and more"first orders"are landing at a faster speed.The development of green finance is entering the"fast lane".The third essay:leasing industry to help the development of container shipping.Leasing is the second largest financial instrument in the world after bank credit,and capital-intensive industries often manage liquidity risk by leasing needed high-value equipment in parts of the market.Container leasing,as a business form of shipping finance,means that the container leasing company signs an agreement with the lessee,namely,the ocean liner company,railway transportation company and road transportation company,to lease the container to the lessee in a long-term or short-term way,and the lessee pays the fees for picking up and returning the container and the rent.Affected by the"Black Swan"of the epidemic,the international shipping supply chain has been hit hard,and the slow flow of containers and market supply have become constraints for the development of international trade.In the context of the current industry scrambling for container assets,the importance of the container leasing market is increasingly prominent.The forth essay:supply chain finance helps port and shipping economy.Industry chain finance is the financing business that relies on the industrial chain composed of core enterprises.The flow of funds in the chain is opposite to the flow of goods and flows sequentially,which is best suited for financing in the chain sequence.In addition to financing,there are also financial management,settlement,payment,bills,and discount.Industry chain finance has become an important means for the development of large enterprise groups.Port and shipping industry is in the control of goods,and goods are the guarantee of repayment of borrowing enterprises.So there’s a lot to offer,such as waybill pledge supervision,goods supervision,to help trade enterprises to carry out trade financing,collective procurement,allocation and distribution and other businesses,to help the financial industry to ensure the safety of goods.