Fujian: heading to the "world-class port" racing track

Start to sprint, each port to work together.at the beginning of the New Year, The starting gun of a good start in Fujian port: January 2, "Dafeng Port Dawn" ro-ro ship loaded 1172 commercial vehicles from Zhangwan operation area to Mexico, Open the first single automobile export business of Fuzhou Port this year; On January 6th, The "Xiamen-Japan" cross-border e-commerce shipping fast channel has been officially launched (as shown above, Photo provided for Xiamen Port Holding Group); On January 15th, "Renjian 8" is the first container liner route between Quanzhou Port and Davao in the Philippines, It is the first RCEP route opened by Quanzhou Port this year; On January 16th, "Yuanyi Sea" is berth No.9 in Luoyu Operation Area of Meizhou Bay Port, It became the first world's largest ore ship to visit Fujian in the New Year...

Seizing the opportunities of multiple policies, such as the demonstration zone, the construction of Fujian Pilot zone, a transportation power, and the integrated development of "Silk Road maritime" port, shipping and trade, Fujian ports are driving at full speed and heading for the "world-class port" racing road.

 Focus on the contiguous development of key port areas

 At the beginning of dawn, the construction site of berth 8 in Luoyu operation area of Meizhou Bay Port has been in full swing.

"At present, the installation of 15 caisson has been completed, and after all the completion, the rear backfill can be completed to form a land area, and the prototype of the new wharf berth has come out."Site engineer Xu Ningyuan told reporters.

 Not far from berth 8, the construction of berths 11 and 12 is also in full swing."The project of the three berths is scheduled to complete the main construction of the wharf by the end of the year. With the berths 9 and 10 that have already been put into operation, the total designed annual passing capacity of the five berths will reach 50 million tons."Xiao Song in charge of Luoyu port company," at that time, Luoyu operation area to build the southeast coastal energy and mineral import important port and bulk cargo transfer reserve base will be more sufficient.”

 Focus on key port shall development, Fujian port production berths 21,21 new cargo throughput capacity of 37.42 million tons, the province tons berth increased to 208, gradually formed the Xiamen port haicang, Fuzhou port jiangyin, Quanzhou port lake container, Fuzhou port, Meizhou bay port luo island bulk bulk cargo, and Meizhou bay south, Xiamen port ancient liquid chemical intensive, specialized terminal cluster.

 With the large-scale wharf successively put into production, a high-grade channel has been built. According to the person in charge of the Waterway Management Station of The Meizhou Bay Port Development Center of Fujian Province, the three deepwater channel projects of the Meizhou Bay Port will make breakthroughs in 2023, greatly improving the navigation capacity and further releasing the capacity of 400,000 tons of iron ore, 300,000 tons of crude oil and 100,000 tons of LNG terminals.

The Shugang expressway and railway are also extending rapidly. On January 16th, the first section of the bulk cargo mobile loading machine and the first section of the entry and exit channel project were successfully poured, entering the construction stage of the main structure project. In addition, the section of the rear railway channel of Fuzhou Port, the first special freight line railway in Fuzhou, has basically completed the land acquisition and house demolition work. After completion, it will be connected with the Kemen Port railway branch, and the freight capacity will be increased from 5 million tons to 30 million tons, and the advantages of bulk cargo hub in Kemen operation area will be further highlighted.

 Create an efficient collection and distribution system

 On January 6th, the first ticket of cross-border e-commerce goods exported to Japan at Xiamen Port Haitian Terminal, was sent to Kobe, Japan after customs clearance at Xiamen Port Logistics Dongdu Cross-border electric shopping mall station, which only takes 3 days to arrive.

"We tailored the 'Xiamen-Manila' silk road shipping express, two 'small three' south mansion gold to Taiwan electricity express, 'big three' north to Taiwan electricity express, 'Xiamen-Japan' cross-border electricity shipping express five export cross-border electricity shipping express, powerful boost in Xiamen and the surrounding areas of cross-border electricity development."Xiamen port logistics bonded department deputy general manager Wang Yitao said.

 Focusing on "fast", Luoyu Wharf has become the best iron ore transit terminal and storage and transportation base for Taiwan's steel industry in the mainland.

 Luoyu Berth 9 is the nearest 400,000-ton terminal to Taiwan, just 72 nautical miles from Taichung port. Since the launch of direct flights to Taiwan in 2019, two direct routes have been opened to Taiwan and Kaohsiung port, with a one-way flight of only 10 to 12 hours. At present, the cooperation between Luoyu Wharf and Taiwan iron and steel enterprises has covered the iron ore purchased by steel enterprises, Vale iron ore mixed ore products, as well as the bonded transfer of raw ore, metallurgical coal and other products and metallurgical coal export. In 2023, the iron ore transfer volume from Luoyu Terminal to Taiwan reached 3.68 million tons.

 The faster sea-rail combined transport channel has injected new momentum into the industrial development in inland areas. On July 21,2023, the "Sanming-Xiamen Port Maersk Sea-rail Combined Transport" first started from Sanming Yongan Freight section, linked to Maersk Shipping Company at Xiamen Port terminal, and shipped to Southeast Asia, Europe and the United States.

 Efforts to accelerate the river-sea combined transport, the Minjiang River shipping development blueprint is slowly spreading. Two newly built thousand-ton ships, Minjiang 1 and Minjiang 2, have completed trial trials."Recently, we also held the Nanping Lingang investment promotion conference to accelerate the pace of development and construction and help the mountain and sea cooperation in the new era to a new level."Nanping Industrial Park management Committee deputy director Xiao Wen said.

Businesses such as water transfer and sea-rail combined transport have been accelerated and improved, and the efficiency of port collection and distribution has been continuously improved, giving a strong impetus to the steady growth of port cargo throughput. By 2023, the coastal ports achieved cargo throughput of 750 million tons and container throughput of 18.18 million TEUS. A total of 163,900 TEUS, up 45.7%; on 60 total of 1628.40 tons, a year-on-year increase of 58.8%.

 Provide diversified and comprehensive services

From Xiamen Port Dongdu Port Area Haitian Wharf to Haicang Port Area International container terminal, successfully catch up with the next ship transit export. Recently, 383 containers of the "Mediterranean BanNu 3" opened the "ship driving" mode in Xiamen Port, shortening the time by 5 hours compared with the original plan, and the efficient barge speed was highly uated by the entrusting party of the Mediterranean shipping.

"International cargo transfer needs to connect two or even three trunk ships to the destination, but due to weather and other factors, the shipping date is difficult to predict. If the shipment of the previous ship is delayed, it may lead to 'hot connection' (refers to the efficient and seamless connection between the first and second ships). Failure to catch up with the next ship will bring serious economic losses to the cargo owner."Chen Yang, deputy manager of the public branch department of Xiamen Port and Shipping Co., LTD., said," In view of this situation, we make plans in advance to provide better quality and efficient connection guarantee. Since last year, we have effectively completed the transit service of 45 Mediterranean shipping ships with a total throughput of 30,000 standard containers through customized schemes.”

 As the largest distribution center of imported bulk waste materials in Asia, Quanzhou Port Shihu Wharf has established a professional and personalized waste materials operation system, launched the online reservation delivery system, providing the characteristic services of "collection, changing and distribution" and "inside and outside", and constantly improving the loading and unloading technology."It is very difficult to lift and transport large materials smoothly. Last year, we innovated and improved the operation process and greatly shortened the operation time, saving the rental cost of large tonnage truck crane by about 800,000 yuan throughout the year."Quanzhou Pacific Container Terminal Co., LTD. Director, general manager Sun Bosheng said.

 Professional and customized services enable seamless connection and direct cargo transfer, and the integrated platform can build a three-dimensional and efficient comprehensive service network.

"Silk road shipping" international shipping integrated service platform with the help of block chain, big data, cloud computing technology, integration of customs inspection-port-shipping-trade information resources network, with logistics visualization all the way, named route operation management, Marine drone patrol, meteorological navigation, alliance services, become a "Belt and Road" national and regional shipping industry chain to discuss the co-construction and sharing of "information hub". By December 2023, the "Silk Road Maritime" Alliance has 320 members and 116 named routes, basically forming a shipping system with international routes as the backbone, foreign trade branch lines as the support and domestic trade lines as the supplement.

In 2024, the port and navigation system of the province will focus on accelerating the construction of world-class ports, further improve the level of port hub and collection and distribution level, accelerate the building of a modern and professional port and shipping industry system, explore the construction of a "sea silk" land channel, and continue to release the overall efficiency of serving the economy and society.