Leaving downtown Shanghai and walking through the 32.5-kilometer-long Donghai Bridge, China's first cross-sea bridge, a world's largest container port will appear in front of you. Three years ago, this place was still a small island hanging alone in the vast sea, with no fresh water and no electricity.
As the world’s only offshore container terminal built on an offshore island, Yangshan Port has attracted worldwide attention.
Since its official opening on December 10, 2005, the first phase of the Yangshan Port berth has been fully operated and managed according to a mature terminal, and has continuously set the highest records for ship hours and Taiwan hours.
From December 10th to February 6th, more than 400 ships berthed at Yangshan Port, including more than 130 large container ships, and the largest ship had 8,500 TEUs. , handling more than 370,000 TEUs.
On January 26, the French CMA CGM "CMA CGM Othello" arrived at Yangshan Port. The loading and unloading company unloaded 4,300 containers in 20 hours, setting a record for the hourly unloading volume of a single ship. and the highest record of container unloading volume per bridge crane per hour. On January 29, the first day of the Lunar New Year, Yangshan Port set another record, with a daily operating volume of 13,358 boxes.
Gui Mo, commander of the Port Branch of the Yangshan Deep Water Port Construction Headquarters, said that in 2006, there would be no problem for the throughput of the first phase of the Yangshan Deep Water Port project to exceed 3 million boxes. Together with the existing berths of the Shanghai Port Capacity, Hong Kong's container throughput is expected to reach 21 million boxes, close to Singapore and Hong Kong, which rank first and second in the world.
Yangshan Deepwater Port Area is the only offshore container terminal built on an offshore island in the world. It has "created" 1.35 million square meters (equivalent to the size of 200 standard football fields) from the deep sea. A new continent with an altitude of 7 meters; driving piles on the seabed with a maximum depth of 39 meters is not only unprecedented in the history of Chinese port construction, but also a world-class problem. The builders of Yangshan Port creatively used the "inclined top pile sheet pile cap structure" and successfully built a densely packed pile wall to form a solid revetment of Yangshan Port.
The Donghai Bridge, lying between the mainland and Xiaoyang Mountain, is China's first offshore cross-sea bridge, and it is also the first bridge in China to set a design reference period of 100 years. As an important part of Yangshan Port, the Donghai Bridge took only 35 months from the laying of the first pile to the completion of the entire line.
It has taken 10 years for Yangshan Port to be completed from the preliminary demonstration to the completion and opening of the port. More than 7,000 scientific researchers have launched 20 new special scientific research studies. So far, more than 50 technical achievements have been applied for for the Yangshan Deep Water Port project. patent.
Yangshan Port is also the first bonded port area approved by China. Yangshan Free Trade Port Area implements the "three zones into one" of export processing zone, bonded zone and port area. Economic circles believe that the bonded port will become a place for domestic and international economic integration, which will be of great significance to promote the development of import and export trade, re-export trade, and export processing industry in the Yangtze River Delta, the Yangtze River Basin, and the country. It will also further enhance the Shanghai International Shipping Center. The competitiveness will also become a new growth point for China's economic development.
After the opening of the first phase of Yangshan Port, the second phase of Yangshan Port is also under construction. The total length of the dock shoreline of the second phase project is 1,400 meters, with a land area of ??approximately 700,000 square meters. Four deep-water berths will be built with an annual throughput capacity of 2.5 million TEUs. It is expected to be completed by the end of 2006. After the completion of the second phase of the Yangshan Port project, a joint venture model will be adopted. Shanghai International Port (Group) Co., Ltd., Hutchison Whampoa Hong Kong, A.P. Muller﹒ Five Chinese and foreign port and shipping giants, including Maersk Group, China Ocean Shipping Group and China Shipping Group, jointly invested in and established a joint venture company to participate in the investment and operation of Yangshan Phase II.
According to the plan, by 2012, an 11-kilometer deep-water coastline will be formed on the Xiaoyangshan side of Beigang District, with nearly 30 berths arranged, and the annual container throughput capacity will reach more than 15 million TEUs. Industry experts predict that the completion and operation of Yangshan Deepwater Port will greatly enhance China's comprehensive economic strength