Ningbo Port becomes No.1 port for sea-rail transport in South China
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- Category: Governmental News
- Published: Tuesday, 17 June 2014 11:11
Great breakthroughs have been made by Ningbo Port in its port transport and production through the acceleration of its transformation to a modern logistics port. By June 5, the sea-rail transport container amount had exceeded 50,000 TEUs for the first time, up by 20% over the same period of last year, indicating the port's position as the No.1 port in South China for sea-rail transport. By the end of May, Ningbo Port had achieved a container throughput of 7.626 million TEUs, up by 12.1% over the same period of last year, ranking first in all the domestic ports in terms of growth.
In the past, the majority of the containers transported via Ningbo Port came from cities in the province. Despite the prosperity of the local foreign trade economy and annual growth of port throughput, the problems of inadequate origin area and container amount remained. To change the situation, Ningbo Port Group has been making efforts to break the geographic limitations to expand the trade space in the past years. Since the beginning of this year, the port has launched the campaign of "strengthening the local market, expanding to Jiangxi market and developing northern areas". The northern areas refer to Xinjiang, Xi'an of Shaanxi Province and Lanzhou of Gansu Province, the three major areas along the Silk Road economic belt. At the end of January, the bi-directional train for sea-rail transport from Ningbo to Xinjiang was opened, realizing the 100% loading bi-directional transport between the two areas. It had completed an amount of 5000 TEUs by June 6. besides, the sea-rail transport between Ningbo port and Xi'an and between Ningbo port and Lanzhou have also made great progress. By June 5, 1500 TEUs had been completed, almost five times of that in the same period of last year.
In addition, by expanding the inland market through such measures as strengthening the dry port layout, the sea-rail transport has optimized the product source structure of Ningbo Port, one of the starting ports of the marine silk road. So far, through joint efforts with local governments, Ningbo Port has set up dry ports in nine cities in Zhejiang province (including Xiaoshan, Fuyang and Shaoxing) and Shangrao and Yingtan of Jiangxi Province and Xiangyang of Hubei Province. The opening of the daily sea-rail transport train from Shangrao to Ningbo on April 18 has effectively promoted the stability of cargo volume to Jiangxi Province.
