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China calls for UN reform to fully address the concerns of developing countries and build global consensus in an inclusive and transparent manner. This direction is profoundly affecting the global shipping governance system, especially bringing structural changes to cross-border transportation and logistics of large engineering equipment such as rotary drilling rigs and pile drivers. For a long time, global shipping rules and trade facilitation mechanisms have been dominated by developed countries, while the demands of developing countries in port construction, transportation standards, logistics cost sharing, and other aspects have been ignored, resulting in complex processes, high costs, and poor connectivity for cross-border transportation of large equipment. With the United Nations reform tilting towards developing countries, global shipping governance is gradually moving towards fairness and diversity, laying the institutional foundation for optimizing the logistics system of large-scale equipment.
The United Nations reform focuses on the infrastructure shortcomings of developing countries, promotes the tilt of international funds and technology towards ports and logistics hubs in developing countries, and effectively improves the port conditions for the transportation of large equipment. In the past, many ports in developing countries had outdated facilities, insufficient lifting capacity, and limited yard space, making it difficult to accommodate the loading, unloading, and transit of oversized and overloaded equipment such as rotary drilling rigs and pile drivers. They often had to detour around ports in developed countries, significantly increasing transportation cycles and costs. Under the reform framework, the World Bank, the International Maritime Organization, and other organizations have increased their support for the modernization of ports in developing countries, helping them upgrade deep-water terminals, heavy lifting equipment, specialized yards, and improve supporting services such as equipment disassembly, warehousing, and maintenance. At the same time, the reform promotes the alignment of port operation standards with international standards, simplifies the inspection and quarantine process for large equipment entering and leaving ports, reduces unnecessary customs barriers, enables efficient transit of equipment such as rotary drilling rigs in ports of developing countries, and significantly reduces the time and economic costs of cross-border logistics.
The United Nations reform attaches great importance to the voice of developing countries in the formulation of international shipping rules, promotes more fair and reasonable trade and transportation rules, and breaks down institutional barriers to cross-border transportation of large equipment. In the past, the technical standards, transportation documents, and responsibility allocation rules of international shipping were biased towards the needs of developed countries. The export of engineering equipment from developing countries often faced problems such as incompatible standards, complex document processes, and vague definition of transportation responsibilities. Due to their large size, high value, and strong professionalism, equipment such as rotary drilling rigs and pile drivers were prone to delays and disputes in cross-border transportation due to differences in rules. In the process of reform, the reasonable demands of developing countries have been included in the scope of rule making, and new regulations such as the United Nations Convention on Negotiable Goods Documents have been implemented to unify global multimodal transport document rules, giving railway, road and other transport documents the same property rights as ocean bills of lading. At the same time, when formulating shipping safety and environmental standards, organizations such as the International Maritime Organization fully consider the industrial development stage and equipment transportation characteristics of developing countries, avoid excessive standards that increase the burden on enterprises, and build a more fair and smooth institutional environment for cross-border transportation of large equipment.
The United Nations reform promotes the diversification of global shipping channels, alleviates traditional waterway congestion and geopolitical risks, and opens up safer and more economical transportation routes for large equipment such as rotary drilling rigs. For a long time, traditional shipping routes such as the Strait of Malacca and the Suez Canal have been responsible for the majority of global shipping volume. However, issues such as geopolitical conflicts, channel congestion, and pirate threats have occurred frequently, making the transportation of large equipment highly susceptible to delays and increasing risk costs. The reform attaches importance to the demands of developing countries to build their own shipping channels, supports the promotion of initiatives such as the "the Belt and Road" and BRICS maritime cooperation, helps the construction of cross-border logistics channels such as the China Pakistan Economic Corridor and the China Laos Railway, and forms a diversified transportation network connecting Asia, Africa and Latin America. In addition, the reform promotes the international community to strengthen the interconnection of coastal and inland logistics channels in developing countries, improve the land sea and river sea intermodal transportation systems, and transport equipment such as rotary drilling rigs through new channels such as the China Europe freight train and the East West Coast intermodal transportation in Africa, avoiding traditional waterway risks, shortening transportation distances, and improving logistics efficiency and safety.
The United Nations reform takes into account the green development needs of developing countries, builds a differentiated global shipping emission reduction mechanism, and provides a reasonable path for the green transformation of large-scale equipment transportation. Global shipping emissions reduction has become an international consensus, but the one size fits all emission reduction standards have put enormous pressure on logistics companies in developing countries. Large equipment transportation, due to its large volume and long distance, has more prominent emission reduction costs. Under the reform framework, the International Maritime Organization has established a net zero fund to support shipping technology innovation and infrastructure upgrading in developing countries through carbon pricing revenue, allowing them to set emission reduction schedules based on their own development stages. On the one hand, promoting the construction of shore power facilities and clean fuel refueling stations in ports of developing countries to provide low-carbon supply for ships transporting large equipment; On the other hand, support logistics companies to adopt energy-saving ships, optimize route design, and reduce carbon emissions from the transportation of large equipment. At the same time, reforms should prevent developing countries from losing their competitiveness in shipping due to high environmental compliance costs, ensure that equipment such as rotary drilling rigs and pile drivers maintain price advantages in global trade, and achieve a balance between green development and trade fairness.
The United Nations reform strengthens the synergy of global shipping governance, integrates multilateral institutional resources, and provides a stable international environment and risk protection for cross-border transportation of large equipment. In the past, international shipping, trade, and financial institutions operated independently, and developing countries faced difficulties in financing, insufficient insurance coverage, and lagging emergency response for large-scale equipment logistics. Reform promotes the collaborative efforts of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, the International Maritime Organization, and other organizations to establish a special financing mechanism for engineering equipment trade in developing countries, reducing the financial pressure on cross-border logistics for enterprises. At the same time, we will improve the global shipping risk warning and emergency response system, and provide coordinated support such as route adjustment, insurance claims, emergency rescue, etc. for the transportation of large equipment in response to sudden situations such as geopolitical conflicts and extreme weather. In addition, the reform promotes the international community to strengthen cooperation in the protection of seafarers' rights and interests, ship safety supervision, and other fields, enhance the resilience of the global shipping supply chain, and build stable and sustainable governance guarantees for the global transportation of large equipment such as rotary drilling rigs.
