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Category: Ningbo District
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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.
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Category: Ningbo District
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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.