石油资源安全、运输安全和战略储备被业界公认为实现中国“国家石油安全”的三大关键环节。组建油轮运输“国家队”的构想正是在这个认识下,1999年由招商局最早提出来的。当时的国务院总理朱镕基批示说要运输企业和石化企业合作,联合组建国家第 Petroleum resources, transport safety and strategic reserves are recognized by the industry as the three key links to China’s “national oil security.” It is with this understanding that the idea of ​​establishing an oil tanker transport “national team” was first proposed by China Merchants Group in 1999. Zhu Rongji, then prime minister of the State Council, commanded that the transport enterprises and petrochemical enterprises cooperate to establish a joint national