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On June 10, the opening ceremony of Yangshan Deepwater Port Phase I was held, marking the official entry of Shanghai into the era of Deepwater Port.

It is reported that Yangshan Deepwater Port has been a major national infrastructure project for cross-regional cooperation since it was fully started in June 2002. Yangshan Port is 27.5km away from Shanghai Nanhui Luchao Port, and the water depth is over15m. It is the first outlying island port in China.

The first phase of Yangshan Port Area includes three parts: port area project, Donghai Bridge and Luchao Port auxiliary supporting project. Among them, five berths of 7000-65438+ 10,000-ton class will be built in the port area project, with coastline 1600 meters and annual handling capacity of more than 3 million TEUs. It is understood that by 20 12, Yangshan deepwater port will have more than 30 berths, and its annual throughput will exceed150,000 TEU.

News interpretation

Xie Yuanping, the boss of a textile trading company in Shaoxing, hastily placed a temporary order of $30,000 for European customers in May this year. As a result, due to the wrong sailing schedule in Shanghai, he had to choose to fly. Because of the cooperation of old customers, he still has to bite his teeth to do business, but he hardly makes any money. "After Yangshan Port opens, I hope the shipping schedule can be relaxed!" Xie Yuanping's wish is simple and direct. In fact, for the majority of Zhejiang foreign trade export business owners, whether the opening of the new port can expand the logistics flow and reduce the transportation cost of enterprises is their concern.

Yangtze River Delta: International Shipping Center

As a deep-water port with close cooperation between Zhejiang and Shanghai, Yangshan Port relies on the deep hinterland of rapid economic development in the Yangtze River Delta and the Yangtze River Basin, and a large part of export goods from Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai and the Yangtze River Basin are shipped from Shanghai Port.

It is understood that Shanghai Port, which was originally confined to the Yangtze River estuary and Huangpu River, cannot meet this logistics requirement. The water depth and tidal height of Shanghai Port are only 1 1 m, so many shipping companies often have to wait for the tide in Shanghai for four to five hours, which is difficult to match the positioning of an international shipping center. Looking around, Busan, South Korea wants to build a "central port around the Pacific", and Kobe, Japan, proposes to build it into an "Asian home port", all aiming at an international container hub port.

In this case, the appearance of Yangshan Port not only ended the history that Shanghai had no deep-water port, but also became the shipping center of "Northeast Asia Hub Port". In the words of the Logistics Research Center of Shanghai Maritime University, "Yangshan Port has been launched as a national strategy to build a shipping center, which will drive Shanghai Port and even the entire Yangtze River Delta port group to rise rapidly in the new pattern of global ports."

According to statistics, after the completion of Yangshan Port, the annual throughput of the Yangtze River Delta ports, including Ningbo Port, will be close to 40 million TEUs, and it will truly become the "leading boss" of global shipping.

The cost of export enterprises in Zhejiang Province will probably be reduced.

Zheng Huiming, director of Zhejiang Port and Shipping Administration, believes that the opening of Yangshan Port will bring more benefits to Zhejiang enterprises and play a positive role in alleviating the lack of port capacity. It is understood that a large part of our export goods are shipped from Shanghai Port, especially in Wenzhou and Taizhou. According to the introduction of Wenzhou local freight company, Wenzhou takes about 40% of the goods from Shanghai. "The main road is wider, other roads are faster and the traffic volume will be higher." Dr Bao Liwei, deputy director of zhejiang university city college Logistics Research Center, compared the influence of Yangshan Port. He believes that the opening of Yangshan Port will bring about the expansion of logistics volume and the acceleration of customs clearance, thus driving the logistics speed of the whole Yangtze River Delta and reducing the overall transportation cost.

According to Shanghai Shengdong International Container Terminal Co., Ltd., which is responsible for the operation and management of Yangshan Deepwater Port Area, Yangshan Port Area, as the first bonded port area approved by the State Council, implements the customs clearance mode of "customs declaration first, then port entry", and completes the export inspection before containers enter Yangshan Port Area, which greatly improves the customs clearance speed.

At the same time, because Yangshan is closer to the international waterway, the round-trip voyage to Yangshan Deepwater Port Wharf can be shortened by nearly one day compared with Waigaoqiao Wharf. If you dock from Waigaoqiao Wharf to Yangshan Deepwater Port Wharf, you can save 40,000-50,000 US dollars a day, and the transportation cost per ton of goods can be reduced by about 10 US dollars, which is exactly what Xie Yuanping hopes.

According to reports, some European routes have been moved to Yangshan Port. According to Zhang Jing, a freight forwarder, the goods in Hangzhou are still picked up at Waigaoqiao Port as before, and then shipped in Hangzhou and transported to Yangshan Port. The cost of such a large container will increase by more than 700 yuan, which is expected to be solved in the near future.

Let me talk about my own opinion:

At present, the draft of Waigaoqiao Wharf is10m. Even Maersk, a super Panamanian ship with 8000TUE, can only hold 5000-6000 TUE at most, which is simply not enough. Sometimes, in order to pack more, we have to wait until the high tide. Now the water depth of Yangshan Port is15m. Even a large ship of 10000 tons can run reliably in the port. However, because Yangshan is far away, the transportation cost has increased a lot. Besides, Donghai Bridge may be closed in bad weather, just like Mai Sha this year. Now the first phase of Yangshan has been put into use, and the second phase has also started. It is inevitable that the military road terminal will move to Yangshan in the future. Yangshan is also the first bonded port in China. It laid the foundation for Shanghai to become the world's largest port. Being a port leader in China will have a little impact on foreign trade in the short term, but it is a good thing in the long run. The ships going to Yangshan are all big ships, so it is unlikely that they can't get on the ship after the cabin is broken! Coupled with the threat of Ningbo Port and Zhangjiagang, the sea freight will be lowered. The Shanghai-Europe line will break the bottom line if it falls again. Although our understanding of Yangshan is still in the exploratory stage, it can be said that the opening of Yangshan is of historical significance.