{"id":1424,"date":"2023-01-04T11:35:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T02:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eclsm.co.jp\/?post_type=article&#038;p=1424"},"modified":"2025-07-16T16:05:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T07:05:39","slug":"will-chinas-roro-operators-be-successful-game-changers-someday","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.eclsm.co.jp\/?article=will-chinas-roro-operators-be-successful-game-changers-someday","title":{"rendered":"Will China&#8217;s RoRo operators be successful game changers someday?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Will China&#8217;s RoRo operators be successful game&nbsp;changers someday?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the very last month of the year of 2022, CMRORO, a subsidiary of CMES&nbsp;which is one of the two SOE shipping conglomerates in China launched&nbsp;consecutively its \u201c international shipping routes&#8217; &#8216; RORO service as listed below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>International Shipping Routes Of CMRORO<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"615\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eclsm.co.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-2-1024x615.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1426\" style=\"width:616px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eclsm.co.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-2-1024x615.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.eclsm.co.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-2-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/www.eclsm.co.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-2-768x462.png 768w, https:\/\/www.eclsm.co.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-2.png 1123w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"625\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eclsm.co.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-3-1024x625.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1427\" style=\"width:621px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eclsm.co.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-3-1024x625.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.eclsm.co.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-3-300x183.png 300w, https:\/\/www.eclsm.co.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-3-768x469.png 768w, https:\/\/www.eclsm.co.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-3.png 1121w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eclsm.co.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-5-1024x630.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1429\" style=\"width:621px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eclsm.co.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-5-1024x630.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.eclsm.co.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-5-300x185.png 300w, https:\/\/www.eclsm.co.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-5-768x473.png 768w, https:\/\/www.eclsm.co.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-5.png 1097w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Furthermore, it was reported that on December 4, 2022, CMRORO and China&nbsp;Merchants Industry signed a letter of intent for cooperation in the construction of 2+4&nbsp;9000CEU methanol dual-fuel PCTC (ro-ro car carriers), of which 2 actual ships will be&nbsp;delivered no later than 2025. The 4 option ships will be delivered no later than 2026.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to CMRORO, this type of ship is currently the largest and most advanced&nbsp;Ro-Ro ship in the world, which can be deployed on the routes from China to Europe,&nbsp;America, Africa region etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile as a step to enlarge their fleet, they are intent to buy in more RORO&nbsp;ships and convert their currently-owned coastal purpose ships to international&nbsp;use ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It reported that they are open to cooperate with other partners within and outside&nbsp;of the China Merchants group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All of these well reflected their ambitions, we should send them our warm&nbsp;congratulations but how far could they go? RORO business has its own&nbsp;characteristics, thus one question came to my mind, that is,&nbsp;Will China&#8217;s RoRo&nbsp;operators be successful game changers someday?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"693\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eclsm.co.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-4-1024x693.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1428\" style=\"width:483px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eclsm.co.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-4-1024x693.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.eclsm.co.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-4-300x203.png 300w, https:\/\/www.eclsm.co.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-4-768x520.png 768w, https:\/\/www.eclsm.co.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-4.png 1197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1425,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","article_type":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-1424","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_type-next","article_type-latest-next","article_type-article-next"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eclsm.co.jp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/article\/1424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eclsm.co.jp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eclsm.co.jp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eclsm.co.jp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eclsm.co.jp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eclsm.co.jp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eclsm.co.jp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eclsm.co.jp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Farticle_type&post=1424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}