China News Service, Ningbo, December 16 (Xi Jinyan) At 8:30 on the 16th, a "red makeup" container located at Berth 7 in Meishan Port Area, Zhoushan Port, Ningbo, was stabilized under the cooperation of remote control bridge cranes and smart trucks. Stable hoisting to the "COSCO SHIPPING Pisces" ship.
So far, the annual container throughput of Ningbo Zhoushan Port has exceeded 30 million TEUs for the first time, making it the third port in the world to be listed in the “over 30 million container club” after Shanghai Port and Singapore Port.
The container hoisting site of Ningbo Zhoushan Port.
Photo by Lin Guoping
The container transportation business of Ningbo Zhoushan Port started in the 1980s.
In 2006, Ningbo Zhoushan Port achieved integration, pushing the container transportation business into a golden development period; in 2008, the container volume of the whole port broke through "10 million" for the first time, realizing the leap from "1 million" to "10 million".
From integration to substantive integration, Ningbo Zhoushan Port has become China's main bulk commodity transshipment base in 16 years. Its cargo throughput has remained the world's largest for 12 consecutive years, and its container throughput ranked third in the world last year.
Since the beginning of this year, Ningbo Zhoushan Port has overcome the impact of the epidemic and drastic fluctuations in the shipping market, and has made every effort to ensure the smooth flow of the global logistics chain.
In terms of sea direction, Ningbo Zhoushan Port continues to weave a dense sea-direction container route network. The total number of routes has increased by 27 compared with the end of 2020, reaching 287, a record high. Among them, the “Belt and Road” route reached 117; in land, Ningbo Zhoushan Focusing on the goal of "a thousand miles of domestic routes, ten thousand miles of Ningbo, Asia and Europe", Hong Kong is actively exploring international multimodal trains. The Jinhua platform of the "Yixin Europe" China-Europe train has opened more than 600 trains this year.
The container hoisting site of Ningbo Zhoushan Port.
Photo by Lin Guoping
The reporter learned that in Yiwu, the “World Supermarket”, goods can complete the pre-release and pre-loading procedures of the Ningbo Port Container Terminal at Yiwu West Station. "One inspection, one release" to help port services and terminal functions move forward.
Ningbo Zhoushan Port has extended sea-rail combined transport channels to the deep inland of China, covering 61 prefecture-level cities in 16 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities). Up to now, it has completed more than 1.1 million TEUs of sea-rail combined transport, which is more than last year. Annual total.
According to the relevant person in charge of Ningbo Zhoushan Port, in the face of the difficulty of finding a single container in the shipping market, Ningbo Zhoushan Port has implemented a series of subsidies and service measures such as the reduction or exemption of empty container vessel tug pilotage fees, the extension of empty container free storage period, and air management services.
From January to November, Ningbo Zhoushan Port's foreign trade import volume of empty containers reached 6.89 million TEUs, a year-on-year increase of 24%; in the face of port congestion, Ningbo Zhoushan Port tried operations such as "direct loading at the port" and "direct loading at the ship". Mode to improve the speed and efficiency of the flow of import and export goods.
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