’97亚太海运会议目前在香港召开。中国航海学会理事长林祖乙一行6人以及来自本地区9个国家和地区的160名代表参加了会议,香港特区政府负责海运事务的经济局负责人到会致词,中国航海学会林祖乙理事长发表讲话,香港船东会主席亦在开幕式上作了发言,香港航运界诸多巨子、招商集团和香港远洋集团公司的负责人出席了开幕式。会议共发表论文22篇,另有书面发言一篇,内容涉及班轮运输、散货运输、港口和支持系统等四个方面。我会有4篇论文被会议组委会选用。 在谈到班轮运输问题时,香港“东方海外”（OOCL）航运公司董建成先生提出:班轮运输应成为社会经济活动中提供全面、及时、高质和可控的后勤服务部门,而不应是单纯的海上承运人。为此,他表示运输商和政府部门均应更新观念,政府则应更加重视和支持班轮运输。在谈到港口问题时,美国代表以洛杉矶和长滩港口的作法为例,提出:相邻港口的关系应为既是竞争对手,又是合作伙 ’97 Asia Pacific Shipping Conference is currently held in Hong Kong. Chairman of China Maritime Academy Lin Zuyi and his party of six people and ninety countries and regions from the region attended the meeting of 160 representatives of the Hong Kong SAR government responsible for maritime affairs to the meeting delivered a speech, Chairman of China Maritime Academy Lin Zuyi speech, The chairman of Hong Kong Shipowners’ Association also made a speech at the opening ceremony. Many shipping industry leaders from Hong Kong, China Merchants Group and Hong Kong COSCO Group attended the opening ceremony. A total of 22 papers were published at the conference. Another written speech was delivered on the topics of liner transport, bulk cargo transport, ports and support systems. I will have 4 papers selected by the organizing committee. Talking about liner shipping, Mr TUNG Chee-chan, an OOCL shipping company in Hong Kong, proposed that liner shipping should be a comprehensive, timely, quality and controllable logistics service in socio-economic activities and should not be Simple sea carrier. To this end, he said that both transporters and government departments should update their concepts and the government should pay more attention to and support liner transport. When talking about the port issue, the representative of the United States, taking the practices of Los Angeles and Long Beach as examples, proposed that the relationship between neighboring ports should be both a competitor and a partner