China News Agency, Ningbo, January 30 (Huang Hui and Wang Yiwen) The reporter learned on the 30th that in 2022, the cargo throughput of Ningbo Zhoushan Port will exceed 1.25 billion tons, ranking first in the world for 14 consecutive years; the container throughput will be 33.35 million TEUs , ranking third in the world.
In 2022, the total import and export value of China's trade in goods will be 42.07 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 7.7%.
As an important node of the trade hub, Ningbo Zhoushan Port, with the help of the "Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement" (RCEP) officially came into effect, increased cooperation with shipping companies, continued to optimize the route structure, achieved new breakthroughs in container routes, and the total number of routes reached 300 13 new international routes compared with the end of 2021, including 120 "Belt and Road" routes.
At the same time, Ningbo Zhoushan Port has expanded and strengthened the multimodal transport system, making every effort to unblock the "main artery" of land-sea two-way logistics. 23 sea-rail intermodal trains have radiated to 16 provinces and 63 prefecture-level cities in China. The business volume reached the "100,000" mark, and the annual container sea-rail combined transport business volume exceeded 1.45 million TEUs for the first time, a year-on-year increase of over 20%.
In addition, Ningbo Zhoushan Port actively responded to the problems of weakening demand for iron ore and uneven supply of goods at different stages, and achieved a counter-trend growth in the volume of iron ore unloading. In 2022, a total of 64 ore ships of 400,000 tons were unloaded. A year-on-year increase of 10.35%.
Ningbo Zhoushan Port also seized the opportunity of booming automobile production and sales, and continued to expand the domestic and foreign trade ro-ro business. It completed 460,000 car ro-ro operations throughout the year, a year-on-year increase of 26.4%, of which foreign trade ro-ro operations achieved a substantial increase.
In terms of capacity building, in 2022, the main project of the key infrastructure project of Ningbo Zhoushan Port will start construction, and the construction of deep-water port areas such as Chuanshan, Meishan, and Daxie will be accelerated. , Completed 45 times of docking and unloading of ore ships, and the prototype of the tens of millions of container berths in Meishan Port area took shape.
Ningbo Zhoushan Port is also cooperating to promote digital reform and smart port construction to promote the improvement of the port's technological level.
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