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Most emerging countries in the Third World are out to carry a bigger share of their trade in their own ships.
多數(shù)第三世界的新興國家都在努力提高用本國商船運(yùn)載貨物的比例。
Developing countries regard a merchant navy as something of a status symbol -the next thing to go for after a national airline. Singapore has expanded their fleet by 6 000 percent in the last 15 years, India by 400 percent.
發(fā)展中國家將商船隊看成國家地位的象征--是僅次于國家航空事業(yè)的優(yōu)先發(fā)展目標(biāo)。在最近15年中，新加坡將自己的商船隊擴(kuò)大了60倍，印度也擴(kuò)大了4倍。
The challenge from the Third World has always been foreseen by our shipping companies.
我國的一些海運(yùn)公司早就預(yù)見到了來自第三世界的挑戰(zhàn)。
P & O, for example, while still out to increase the total freight it carries, is planning for a gradual reduction in its percentage share of the trade with the new shipping powers of the Third World.
例如，東方輪船運(yùn)輸公司在繼續(xù)致力于擴(kuò)大其貨運(yùn)總量的同時，正計劃逐步削減其與第三世界新興海運(yùn)強(qiáng)國分享生意的比例。
But P & O has no intention of throwing in the towel. The key tactic behind its strategy of holding on to the richest slice of the trade has been to move up-market -to go where the Third World cannot follow: into high-technology investment.
但是，該公司并不打算退出競爭，拱手認(rèn)輸。它為保住貿(mào)易上的這塊最厚的肥肉所采取的主要策略是轉(zhuǎn)向高層次市場--進(jìn)入第三世界無法跟進(jìn)的領(lǐng)域，即進(jìn)行高技術(shù)投資。
Containers, for example, were an American invention, but it was British ship owners who put up the money to pioneer the international deep-sea container service.
例如，集裝箱本是美國人的發(fā)明，但卻是英國船主們投資首創(chuàng)了國際遠(yuǎn)洋集裝箱海運(yùn)業(yè)務(wù)。
Containers save time, because the loading is done in the factory or warehouse, rather than on the dockside, and they are very secure against theft; except for a code number on the outside, there is no indication of what is inside the box.
集裝箱運(yùn)輸節(jié)省時間，因為裝貨作業(yè)在工廠或倉庫里即可完成而不必在碼頭上完成。集裝箱運(yùn)輸也非常安全可靠，有利于防盜;除箱體外面的編號外，集裝箱上沒有任何表明箱內(nèi)所裝是何貨物的標(biāo)記。
To cash in on the container revolution, you need a sophisticated system of roads and railways, something that most Third World countries do not have: And container ships are expensive, around 50 million each.
要有效地利用集裝箱這一技術(shù)革命的成果，必須擁有可與之配套的先進(jìn)的公路和鐵路運(yùn)輸系統(tǒng)，而這是大多數(shù)第三世界國家所不具備的條件。此外，集裝箱貨船造價高昂，每艘船大約為5000萬英鎊。
