The yacht building in China, as an industry started a few years ago to gather speed. With labor and capital investment costs at a fraction of western rates, in combination with the Chinese government's active assistance to push the industry forward has resulted in a tremendous boom for both local yards as well as huge western investments in building plants.  Numerous western ship-builders are today operating and successfully build yachts and other pleasure crafts in the PRD or Pearl River Delta, which is a vast area of manufacturing industries in the Guangdong district, right between Hong Kong and Guangzhou (Canton). 

Several Scandinavian, European and American yacht manufacturers have already moved to the lot or parts of the manufacturing to other countries but particularly China. Some of them have erected their own plants with Chinese labor or working as partners alongside with their Chinese colleagues. In general the opinion of this out-sourcing is very positive. Of course there might be somewhat friction in the beginning, but as the old veterans use to say, - The main reason for problems in the beginning is  interpretation difficulties, and when this is overcome, well the operations start smoothen up and you can harvest the fruits of the joint venture.

Shanghai and Guangdong with the Pearl River Delta area are the areas which further transports to Europe will be easiest to find. ScandiMarine Ltd. is mainly working with one huge Chinese cargo operator, with ships departing virtually all the time from Shanghai or Hong Kong to all major seaports in Europe. The transport costs are "daily prices" and can not be quoted here until we know the size of the transport, time and destination port.

Flights from Europe to China are very easy to find. All major airports have daily flights to Hong Kong and Shanghai, and competition has depressed the airline fees dramatically. Amsterdam - Hong Kong takes round 11 hours and KLM tickets can be obtained from 700 EURO with return. Taxi from the airport takes you directly to China Ferry Terminal in HK/Kowloon and high speed cats take you to China/PRD in less than two hours.

China is a huge country where you will experience, past, present and future, only minutes separating them. In general the Chinese people are very kind and helpful and we are sure your trip will be full of nice memories and loads of business opportunities. To find a business sideline is very easy. Some companies are actively searching for smaller sidelines to compensate their i.e. transport costs which give their yacht product even higher impact here.