Port of Ningbo doubled container throughput in five years

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Category: Ningbo District

Published: Tuesday, 31 January 2012 10:14

In 2011, the throughput of cargo the Port of Ningbo handled reached 433 million tons, making historical new highs in successively five years. The annual handling capacity of containers reached 14.51 million standard containers, reaching the target specified in the general plan.

In the past 5 years, the Port of Ningbo has put greatest investment in infrastructures, resulting in notable increase in the comprehensive economic power and internal and international competitiveness.

In 2008, the Port of Ningbo started its strategy of turning itself into a powerful international port. In the year, the throughput of containers reached 10 million standard containers, becoming one of the 4 ports of China whose annual throughput reached 10 million containers.

From 2006 to 2011, the cargo-handling capacity of the port increased from 310 million tons to 430 million tons, and the throughput of containers increased from 7,060,000 to 14,510,000 standard containers. For the annual handling capacity of standard containers, the Port of Ningbo ranked No.3 in the ports of Mainland China and the No.6 in the world.

From 2007, the Port of Ningbo extended its business to the mainland building dry ports to expand its capacity of collecting goods in the mainland. So far, the dry ports in Jinhua, Yiwu, Shaoxing, Quzhou, Shangrao and Yingtan have been built and put in operation. In 2011, the port handled 218,000 standard containers from the dry ports, increased by 95% above the same period of the previous year.

In the meanwhile, the port further increased shipping lines. In 2011, the port had 236 shipping lines of containers, 73 more than the total in 2006. The monthly shipping service increased from 728 in 2006 to 1,300 in 2011. The port had its regular shipping services with over 600 ports of over 100 countries.

In the past five years, the investment in the infrastructural facilities has added up to over 10 billion yuan. On average, it has 2 to 3 berths built and put into operation. At present, it has 330 productive berths, including 80 deep-water berths for 10,000 tonnage ships. For this, the Port of Ningbo is a port in Mainland China that has the last number of large and super-large deepwater berths.

Sea area management provided new lands for construction

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Category: Ningbo District

Published: Tuesday, 31 January 2012 10:11

Recently, the last batch of 7500 acres of the sea area used for construction purpose, including the Hangzhou Bay New Town, Meishan Industry Cluster Zone and Hongsheng Seawall in Fenghua County, has been approved by the provincial government. So far, the sea area management sector provided about 18,000 acres of sea area for construction purpose, among which over 15,000 acres are used as planned construction land and about 3000 acres are registered for public welfare.

The sea area management has become an important means of solving the problem of shortage of construction space and the approval of land for construction purpose. It is said that as the approval right for reclamation belongs to the national and provincial governments, and the management procedures are complex and application requirements are demanding, it is difficult to guarantee the processing time. Therefore, since the new policy for reclamation was issued at the beginning of 2010, Ningbo Ocean and Fishery Bureau has made efforts to improve working efficiency and to ensure the examination quality so that all the projects reported can get timely approval.

In the meanwhile, Ningbo obtained recognition and support from the State Oceanic Administration for its innovative management system and efforts in promoting the construction of the sea area express passage and market mechanism. So far, Ningbo has been listed among the pilot zones for handling the construction project management by direct use of sea area use procedure, and the related documents for the pilot zone is being discussed by the municipal government. Xiangshan County has been listed among the national pilot zones for innovative oceanic management by the State Oceanic Administration and Xiangshan Oceanic Property Rights Exchange Center has been set up.

Statistics show that in 2011, the national planned reclamation area for Ningbo reached 8250 acres, an increase of 900 acres over the previous year. At the end of 2011, the National Development and Reform Commission and the State Oceanic Administration approved another 7500 acres as additional area for construction purpose.

It is learned that the year 2012 will be an important year for Ningbo to accelerate the development of marine economy and build the core demonstration zone. Ningbo Ocean and Fishery Bureau has set up its yearly sea area management goal as serving the construction of key sea block and key projects by realizing an area of over 1000 hectares for construction purpose.

Zhenhai sped up construction of modern marine industry system

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Category: Ningbo District

Published: Tuesday, 31 January 2012 10:12

Zhenhai District recently released its overall objective of marine economy development: in the next five years, it will speed up the construction of modern marine industry system including port and shipping service industry, advanced port manufacturing, marine engineering construction and emerging marine industries, and make efforts to build the demonstration zone of marine economy.

To develop the superior large port industry and to build the first-class petrochemical and new material industry base has been one of the major goals of the district. To achieve it, the district will scientifically make the long-term planning of Ningbo Petrochemical Economy and Technology Development Zone, optimize the layout of all the combinational functions, strengthen the development of core industry clusters and develop such emerging industries as new petrochemical materials and fine petrochemical industry. By speeding up the construction of the major projects such as Heyuan and AkzoNobel, the district strives to become the national demonstration zone for advanced port manufacturing.

To greet the era of marine economy with large logistics and to build the three-dimensional service system is the key of the port and shipping service industry. To realize the goal, Zhenhai District set up a logistics service system composed of the bulk commodity trading platform and the land-sea linkage system of network, financial and information support. It is also accelerating the construction of the base for bulk commodity transporting, processing and trading and the construction of the container trunk port.

Recently, the district introduced the new policy to promote the development of the shipping industry by awarding the added capacity. The service environment will be optimized to promote the development of shipping industrial clusters and the construction of the centers for shipping business, information and trade.

According to the plan, by 2015, the gross marine production of the district will be over 50 billion yuan. The port cargo throughput will be over 50 million tons, with the turnover of bulk commodities reaching 100 billion yuan and the total shipping capacity reaching two million tons. The research and development investment will account for more than 2.5% of the gross marine economic production, and the advance in technology will contribute 70% to the marine economy.

Urban environment observation and research station settled in Beilun

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Category: Ningbo District

Published: Tuesday, 24 January 2012 17:38

It is learned from the Development and Reform Bureau of Beilun District that the project of Ningbo urban environment observation and research station by Chinese Academy of Sciences has been launched recently. The station will be settled to the south of the Siba Road of the coastal new town and to the northeast of the Chunxiao Lake with a total area of 40,000 square meters and a construction area of 20,000 square meters. With a total investment of about 170 million yuan, the project is expected to start its official operation in 2014.
As is known, as a research institute specialized in the comprehensive study of urban environment, the urban environment Institute of Chinese Academy of Sciences was founded in Xiamen on July 4, 2006. The institute intended to form a "two-station" structure by launching two urban environment centers in two cities selected from the Yangtze River Delta city group and Zhujiang River Delta city group respectively. The station in Ningbo is just one of these two centers. Based in Ningbo and radiating to the Yangtze River Delta, the observation and research station will carry out researches and explorations in long-term urban environment observation and research, urban eco-environment and health, urban environment treatment and restoration technology, environmental engineering and recycling economy, urban planning and environmental policy research and development, and technology transfer, conversion and scale industrialization