After entering the Song Dynasty, Qinglong Town has the title of "the first commercial port in the south of the Yangtze River". In111/year, the northern song government set up a shipping promotion agency here to collect tariffs and manage shipping. Since then, a large amount of sediment has flowed down the Yangtze River every year, extending the coastline of the Yangtze River Delta eastward, increasing the land area and changing the river course. At about 1265, the port was moved to Shanghai town.
1404 After the Huangpu River was developed, Shanghai Port grew stronger and stronger with its excellent waterway.
1840 After the Opium War, Britain forced the Qing government to sign the treaty of nanking, and Shanghai Port was forced to open to the outside world on 1843, 1 17. After that, a group of foreign adventurers flocked in. They appointed foreign harbour superintendents, demarcated "the boundary of stopping foreign ships", formed colonial armed forces, carved up the port coastline, built dock warehouses, smuggled opium and trafficked people. From 65438 to 0853, Shanghai surpassed Guangzhou to become the largest foreign trade port in China. After 1970s, Shanghai Port became the national shipping center. Modern industrial clusters are gradually formed on both sides of Huangpu River and Suzhou River.
At the beginning of the 20th century, Huangpu Bureau dredged Wusongkou and some sections of Huangpu River, so that 10,000-ton ships could enter Huangpu River by tide, which met the requirements of ship development and economic development at that time. In 1930s, Shanghai Port has become a shipping center in the Far East, with an annual cargo throughput of140,000 tons. The tonnage of imported ships ranks seventh in the world and Shanghai has become an important port city in the world.
1949 Shanghai was liberated in May, and the history of Shanghai Port turned a new page. After the three-year recovery period at the beginning of liberation, the port construction in the 1970s and the construction after the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Shanghai Port has made great progress. Especially since the reform and opening up, with the support of the Shanghai Municipal Government and the Ministry of Communications, Shanghai Port has built five new ports on the Huangpu River, namely Zhanghuabang, Simon Road, * * * * Qing, Zhujiamen and Longwu, and Baoshan, Luo Jing and Waigaoqiao ports on the south bank of the Yangtze River estuary. In addition, Baosteel Group, Shidongkou Power Plant and Waigaoqiao Power Plant. It has also built its own dedicated wharf, and the throughput capacity of Shanghai Port has been continuously expanded, which has played an important role in promoting the economic development of Shanghai, the Yangtze River Basin and the whole country.
199565438+February, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council made a strategic decision to build Shanghai International Shipping Center. On June 5438+February 10, 2005, the first phase of Yangshan Deepwater Port Area was completed and put into operation, and the Yangshan Bonded Port Area was put into operation at the same time, which indicated that the construction of Shanghai International Shipping Center had achieved important phased results.
After more than half a century's construction and development, Shanghai Port has become a comprehensive, multifunctional and modern large-scale main hub port, ranking among the major ports in the world.