Container Boosts Chongqing'S Water Pport Economy Soaring

"Without containers, there would be no globalization."

This is a comment by British magazine on the modern logistics mode of container pportation.

In April 26, 1956, 58 large iron boxes were hung by the crane at the port of Newark, New Jersey, USA, and the ideal X tanker arrived in Houston 5 days later.

Since then, the so-called "container" large iron box has opened up a new era of global freight pport, which has increased the efficiency of pportation.

Great changes have also taken place in the world trade and economic structure.

37 years later, in 1993, Chongqing, located in the interior of Western China, issued the first liner with 56 containers to Shanghai.

There has never been a history of container shipping liners since the end of the Chuan Jiang waterway.

From then on, foreign trade has a very competitive logistics channel.

Container shipping links Chongqing closely with the world.

At present, more than 40% of the containers issued by Chongqing port are pshipment goods from neighboring provinces and cities, and more than 90% of the foreign trade goods in the city are completed through water pport.

Today, the top 20 shipping companies in the world have set up branches in Chongqing.

1, 21 years increased by more than 1.7 times

December 25, 2014.

With the lifting of a container marked "1000000TEU" (TEU, standard container), the Chongqing port has become the first container throughput port in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River.

"This marks a historic leap in the construction of the shipping center in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River in Chongqing, and the prototype of the shipping center has been established."

Teng Hongwei, director of the Chongqing Municipal Transportation Commission, said that at present, the cargo throughput capacity of the port of Chongqing is 1.7 billion tons, and the capacity of container throughput is 3 million 700 thousand. The volume of water pportation and freight volume in Hong Kong accounts for 70% of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and the container throughput accounts for 80% of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River.

From 56 boxes in 1993 to 100 thousand boxes in 2004, to 1 million boxes today.

Over the past 21 years, Chongqing's water pport container has increased by more than 1.7 times, achieving rapid development from scratch and from strong to strong.

Tan Hongbin, executive deputy general manager of Limited by Share Ltd, the people's livelihood steamship company, clearly remembered that the departure time of the first container liner in Chongqing was October 5, 1993.

At 10 a.m. that morning, Minsheng company's "Sheng Yu" wheel carried two barges and slowly left the Jiulongpo port.

8 days later, the "Sheng Yu" wheel arrived in Shanghai.

In 2002, Minsheng created the fastest container pport record for 96 hours from Chongqing to Shanghai.

In 2003, the people's livelihood company opened the Changjiang River container from Chongqing to Shanghai, and the time of reopening the goods from Chongqing to Shanghai was 3-7 days shorter than before.

At the same time, along with the rapid development of Chongqing's economy and the great improvement of navigation conditions in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River after the Three Gorges Reservoir's construction, especially after Chongqing was positioned as the shipping center of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, Chongqing's container business entered the fast lane of development.

Data show that last year, Chongqing issued a total of 1632 container flights to Shanghai, with an average of 31 classes per week.

The rapid growth of the container shipping market has attracted COSCO, Ma Shiji and other world shipping giants to settle in Chongqing.

At present, the top 20 shipping companies in the world have set up branches in Chongqing.

2, the pformation from traditional shipping to modern shipping.

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The formation not only depends on its size, but also on the strength of its service system.

Teng Hongwei said that Chongqing, as the shipping center of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, must establish a perfect service system if it wants to play the role of carrying East and West. Only in this way can container pport be pformed from "quantity growth" to "quality improvement".

The Chongqing shipping exchange is the product of this idea.

As the first shipping exchange in the inland river, the Chongqing airport was founded in the early days to seize the "Heaven King Mountain" - the Chongqing pport electronic port.

Today, Chongqing communications electronic port is one of the 7 pportation electronic port sub centers of the country. The service scope has already covered 11 container terminals in Chongqing and the railway center station of unity village. It has achieved data exchange and information sharing with Chongqing customs and inspection and quarantine departments, and has interconnected with the Ministry of communications, the Yangtze River Navigation Administration and Shanghai electronic port.

"Now, we can monitor the port entry and exit of Chongqing port and the customs clearance in Shanghai port without leaving the house."

Jiang Jiangsong said that the acceleration of shipping elements is promoting the pformation of Chongqing's traditional shipping to modern shipping.

In order to make full use of the low cost advantages of inland river shipping, Chongqing has been focusing on accelerating the construction of the shipping center in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River in recent years, so as to enhance the shipping infrastructure.

On the port side, in order to adapt to the hydrological environment of big water level drop in the Three Gorges Reservoir area, in December 2003, Chongqing started the construction of the container dock, and the container berth was first designed with high pile vertical wharf.

Compared with the traditional Sloping Wharf, the operation efficiency is increased by 2-3 times.

In terms of waterways, it has invested 12 billion yuan, upgrading and upgrading the Yangtze River and Jialing River and Wujiang.

At present, the total mileage of the Chongqing waterway has reached 4451 km, and the city's four level or above high level waterway reaches 1075 km, accounting for 24% of the total mileage of the waterway.

In addition, efficient ships also play an important role in container pportation.

Through policy guidance and financial support, our city has promoted the standardization, large-scale and specialized development of ships.

At present, there are 3700 shipping vessels and 5 million 950 thousand deadweight tonnes in our city, of which 70% are standardized ship types, and the average tonnage of cargo ships reaches 2460 deadweight tons, which is the first inland river in China.

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3, rail and water intermodal pport to promote open economic development.

With the help of the Yangtze River golden waterway, Chongqing actively plans the combined pport of iron and water and river and sea, so that foreign trade containers can complete exports more efficiently, thus greatly promoting the development of Chongqing's open economy.

In August 15, 2013, Wanzhou port officially opened Chengdu area - Wanzhou port - Shanghai port to and fro container pport class.

"Rong Wan ban Lu" brings low cost and efficient pportation mode, and is welcomed by industrial and logistics enterprises along the route.

Qiao Zhengren, container manager of Jiangnan Tuokou port in Wanzhou port of Chongqing port, said that before the opening of "Rong Wan ban Lu", the container in Sichuan was mainly pferred to Shanghai through Luzhou port.

After the opening of the "Rong Wan ban Lun", the logistics cost of the "Rong Rong Wan Hu" logistics line is about 150 yuan lower than that of the Chengdu Luhu Shanghai logistics line, and the waterway pport distance is shortened by 582 km, and the logistics cycle is reduced by 3-5 days.

Not only is the port of Wanzhou, but also the Jiangjin and the Lanjia Tuo port.

At present, our city has opened five railway freight containers for Shanghai and Shenzhen, and the international freight train of Chongqing New Europe.

The open shipping logistics market has attracted many equipment manufacturing, chemical and metallurgical enterprises to settle down along the river.

At present, the Chongqing port industrial belt concentrates more than 90% of the city's metallurgical, mechanical manufacturing, electric power, automobiles, motorcycles and other enterprises.

Wang Xiumo, a researcher at the Municipal Academy of Social Sciences, believes that the rapid development of containers has led to the initial formation of a port economic pattern centered on Chongqing port and related regions and industries. The concentration and radiation effects of the shipping center in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River have been significantly enhanced. "Chongqing has become the main distributing center for industrial production factors in the western region", "said Wang Xiumo.

At present, our city is building the largest iron and water intermodal hub port in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River - the orchards with annual throughput of 30 million tons.

Huang Ji, deputy general manager of Chongqing Port Logistics Group Co., Ltd., according to Huang Yu railway's fish mouth central station, the orchards are laying a 5 km long Hong Kong special line to realize the seamless connection of the iron and public water in the real sense, and is expected to be completed by the end of the year.

At that time, the orchards port will be linked to the Chongqing New Europe International Railway and form an integrated iron and steel hub with the East Pacific and the Western Union in the Atlantic.

The goods along the golden waterway of the Yangtze River can be directly boarded to the European orchards in the orchard port, and can be turned around here to catch other railway freight lines.

4, container pport will usher in a new spring.

"Along with the implementation of the" Silk Road Economic Belt "and the" twenty-first Century Maritime Silk Road "and the construction of the Yangtze River Economic Belt strategy, we are making efforts to build the shipping center of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River in Chongqing, so that it can become a regional shipping center with international influence, in accordance with the requirements of the municipal government and the deep integration of the municipal government. This will also usher in another spring for the pport development of Chongqing's water pport container.

Teng Hongwei said.

In particular, with the promotion of the strategy of building the Yangtze River economic belt, the trend of eastward pfer of industries to the west is increasingly obvious. Chongqing will undertake more second industries to settle down, thus bringing more pportation demand for raw materials and products, thus providing strong hinterland economic support for the development of container pportation in Chongqing port.

There is no coincidence.

Chen Huadong, general manager of COSCO Southwest Logistics, who was admitted to Chongqing in November this year, also said that the reason why Chongqing was chosen as its southwest headquarters is to see the opportunities brought by the intersection of Chongqing Yangtze River golden waterway and Chongqing New Europe railway.

The river surges forward to play the song of endeavour, and the drum drums start again.

A new blueprint for Chongqing's water pport planning has been launched and the path is clear.

By 2017, the mileage of the four and above waterways in the city increased to 1600 km, the port cargo throughput capacity reached 2 million tons, the container throughput capacity was 5 million, the standardized rate of ships reached more than 75%, and the standardized rate of Three Gorges pit ship reached 100%, basically forming a modern air pportation service system. The neighboring cities and provinces in Chongqing accounted for more than 50% of the total freight volume in the city, and built the shipping center of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River.