Shanghai World Expo Accounted For Nearly 40% Of The Total Number Of Tourists On The Water.

According to the information provided by the Shanghai Safety Supervision Bureau and the world expo office of the Shanghai maritime bureau 25 days ago, since the official opening of Shanghai World Expo in May, the number of tourists entering the park has been increasing.

As of 23 days, the Expo carried 6 million 714 thousand and 400 passengers on the water, accounting for 36% of the total number of visitors to the Expo.

The maritime department has launched a number of water safety measures, and the water traffic safety situation of the Expo is stable.

According to the briefing, the daily carrying capacity of the Expo water is more than 126 thousand passengers per day, and the highest daily carrying capacity of the Expo is 183 thousand and 800.

In order to protect the water traffic safety of the World Expo, the world expo office of the Shanghai Maritime Affairs Bureau has dispatched 820 patrol boats in the core waters, inspecting more than 1600 vessels and carrying out special inspections of the power equipment of the special purpose ships.

With the concerted efforts of all parties, the water traffic safety situation of the Expo is stable.

According to the relevant department personage, in view of the increasing passenger flow on the water pport sector, the relevant parties have launched a number of water safety measures: adjusting the number of passenger ferry boats in the Expo area according to the law of peak traffic period (i.e., the hour before and after the first surge of the Huangpu River), so as to avoid the urgent situation of intensive ferry traffic between the ferry and the water boat; strengthen communication with the World Expo Bureau, and timely guide the tourists to the Puxi Park in Pudong through the media, the exhibition cards of the park, coordinate the rail pit and public pport; in the maritime grid management, arrange the patrol boats reasonably for on-site management, and coordinate and maintain the order of the passenger and ferryboat on the spot.

In addition, through propaganda and current limiting methods, it is necessary to guide the pport ships carrying materials such as stones and yellow sand to make use of the waters at the core of the Huangpu River as far as possible, so as to reduce their adverse effects on the safe navigation of the world's passenger ships in the core area; to implement the tugboat accompany system for the large type ships above 5000 deadweight tonnage, to improve the navigational safety coefficient of large ships, and to make clear the obligation of the world bloggers to give up their duties so as to enhance the sense of responsibility of the ferry crew.

The launch of these measures has ensured the safety of navigation in the core control area of the Expo.