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CMA CGM Marco Polo's maiden voyage to Port of Ningbo

Details: Category: Ningbo District; Published: Tuesday, 13 November 2012 11:47

The other day, CMA CGM Marco Polo moored at Port of Ningbo.

At the noon, CMA CGM Marco Polo, the largest container ship of the world that is capable of carrying 16,000 standard containers, arrived at the Port of Ningbo in its maiden voyage.

CMA CGM Marco Polo is a ship of CMA CGM. It was launched in South Korea on November 6. She is 396 long and 54 meters wide, being the world's largest ship.

Despite its gigantic size, CMA CGM Marco Polo moored with ease at Berth 5 of the Port of Ningbo. Then, 10 overhang cranes started to work, loading 1,600 standard containers into CMA CGM Marco Polo. At 8:00 p.m., CMA CGM Marco Polo left the Port of Ningbo for its next destination Shanghai.

In 1959, CMA CGM started business with Ningbo. In 1997 the Port of Ningbo opened its first container line to Europe.

Ningbo popularizing energy saving lamps

According to Ningbo Office of Energy Saving, this year the city of Ningbo is to spread the use of 1.3 million energy saving lamps, and 70% of them will be used in the rural areas. When this task is completed, the city can save 270 million kwh (equivalent to 95,000 standard coal) this year. From November 7 on, citizens, with their IDs, can buy the lamps at the 16 appointed places.

The 1.3 million lamps to be popularized are mainly high-power ones, ranging from 20 w to 45 w. According to the state's policy on energy saving, the individual citizens can be subsidized by half of the regular price and for enterprises, the subsidy is 30%. To replace the filament lamps in the star rated hotels and shops, This year, Ningbo plans substitute 20,000 energy saving lamps for those filament lamps in the star rated hotels and shops, and the hotels and shops can be subsidized by 50% of the price from the central government. "The regular price of a 5-w energy saving lamp is 8.2 yuan. For a individual citizen, it is only 4.1 yuan and 5.7 yuan for a company," said a related person of a company of energy lamps.