Ningbo-Zhoushan port to expand handling capacity by 600,000 TEU

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CHINA's thriving Ningbo-Zhoushan port is expanding its Chuanshan port area to raise its container handling capacity by 600,000 TEU by building new berths. Chuanshan port mostly services container and bulk cargo, as well as liquefied natural gas (LNG) and oil products transportation, reported Ships & Ports, Lagos. The port currently has ten containers berths and its annual container throughput exceeds 10 million TEU, accounting for 40 per cent of the total container handling volume at Ningbo-Zhoushan port. Ningbo-Zhoushan port handled 26 million TEU in 2018, becoming the world's third busiest container port.  

Ningbo Zhoushan port to add container berth

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China’s fast growing Ningbo-Zhoushan port is expanding its Chuanshan port area to further increase container handling capacity. The expansion project includes a new container berths and 600,000 teu of container handling capacity will be added when the project was completed. Chuanshan port area mainly service container and bulk cargo, as well as LNG and oil products transportation. Currently, Chuanshan port area has ten containers berths, its annual container throughput exceeds 10m teu, accounting for around 40% of the total container handling volume of Ningbo-Zhoushan port. Ningbo-Zhoushan port posted a container throughput of 26m teu in 2018, becoming the world’s third largest container port.

Ningbo-Zhoushan overtakes Shenzhen to be 3rd largest box port globally

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CHINA's Ningbo-Zhoushan port handled a total of 26 million TEU in 2018 to become the world's top three container port for the first time. The throughput handled by Ningbo-Zhoushan surpasses Shenzhen, which reported a throughput of 25.74 million TEU last year. To improve container throughput, Ningbo-Zhoushan port has been actively co-operating with shipping alliances on shipping routes deployment and local resources expansion and strengthening its position as a hub port for international shipping business. The port operates 246 shipping routes at the end of 2018, reports Seatrade Maritime News of Colchester, UK. The fast growing of sea-railway combined transportation in Ningbo-Zhoushan port has greatly driven the increasing of its container throughput. The port opened nine sea-railway combined routes last year, including seven routes with over 5,000 TEU volume monthly. In 2018, the port completed over 600,000 TEU sea-railway cargo volume, a growth of 50 per cent year on year. Ningbo-Zhoushan port handled 24.64 million TEU in 2017, and is also a hub port for domestic iron ore, crude oil, coal and liquid chemical products transit and storage.  

Hunan Xiangchuan Shipbuilding sets up yard and repair base in Zhoushan

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China’s Hunan Xiangchuan Shipbuilding Industry has set up a new shipyard and repair base in Zhoushan, Zhejiang province to expand its footprint locally. Xiangchuan Shipbuilding had already built over 100 ships for the city of Zhoushan and Zhejiang province. The shipbuilding and repair base in Zhoushou will allow the company to better service the regional market, said Xu Ju Lin, general manager of Xiangchuan Shipbuilding. The company aims to optimise its products structure and develop new types of environmentally-friendly vessels. Zhoushan is one of the top shipbuilding and repair centers in China. Its annual shipbuilding capacity is over 10m dwt. The state-owned Hunan Xiangchuan Shipbuilding Industry, previously known as ChangSha Shipbuilding, was established in 1950. Key products of the company include high-speed passenger ships, roro vessels, maritime patrol ships and coast guard ships.

ABB expands service network to Zhoushan

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ABB Turbocharging has opened its branch office ABB Jiangjin Turbo Systems Co in Zhoushan, China. The Zhoushan branch will offer ABB’s original spare parts and services, access to maintenance and repair for all ABB turbochargers, regardless of the model types and uses. These services are set to significantly reduce the time previously required for repairs and maintenance. “ABB Jiangjin Turbocharging System Zhoushan Branch is the first legal entity established by ABB in Zhoushan,” said Jiang Haibo, head of industrial automation division, ABB China. “It will be a valuable addition to our sales and service network in Zhoushan and the entire southeastern coastal Yangtze River Delta region. It will help ABB remain closer to the needs of the market and serve our customers faster and better, as well as in the delivery of ABB’s mission ‘In China, for China, and for the world”, Jiang said. A booming Zhoushan economy is now taking over 35% of the total working load of ship repair for China, making it the premier ship repair center in China, according to ABB. With rapid growth in the demand for efficient and convenient services from customers, ABB said it foresaw opportunity at this location and reached a strategic cooperation with Zhoushan Xinya Shipyard. Read more: Cosco picks ABB turbochargers for new mega container ships “By leveraging ABB’s technical advantages in Internet of Things and digitalization, through active participation in the construction of key projects and the economic development of Zhoushan, we are confident to achieve a ‘win-win’ collaboration,” Jiang said. As well as offering geographical benefits to customers, the branch will also provide greater access to customers to fully utilise ABB’s digital offerings through its support network. ABB Jiangjin Turbo Systems sales and service network will serve both domestic and international customers. These include branches/subsidiaries in major coastal cities such as Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Tianjin, Dalian, Qingdao, Zhoushan, as well as service points in Shekou and Fuzhou in cooperation with local shipyards.  

X-Press Feeders orders six feeder vessels at Zhoushan Changhong

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Singapore’s X-Press Feeders has approached China’s Zhoushan Changhong International Shipyard to build six new 2,700-teu feeder vessels. Each of the environmentally-friendly feeders, to be classed by DNV GL, will be capable of carrying 600 refrigerated containers. China State Shipbuilding Corporation’s (CSSC) 708th research institute Maric will design the vessels with a focus on energy efficiency and environmental friendliness. The hull of the vessels will be optimised to reduce bunker fuel consumption and the vessels will also satisfy the EEDI phase 3 requirements needed from 2025.

Ningbo Zhoushan Port Group joins IAPH

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THE International Association of Ports and Harbours (IAPH) has considerably strengthened its membership base in China now that Ningbo Zhoushan Port Group, manager of the Ningbo and Zhoushan port complex, has decided to join the body. The group's decision was confirmed in the wake of the Maritime Silk Road Port International Cooperation Forum, which was held in Ningbo in mid-June, reported MarineLink of New York. IAPH president Santiago Garcia Mila met with Ningbo Zhoushan Port Group vice general manager Ni Chenggang at the forum to conclude the membership arrangement. "With the ever-growing impact of the Chinese Belt and Road strategy, we look forward to working together to boost trade and stimulate economic growth across Asia and beyond," said the IAPH president. Ningbo and Zhoushan represent the largest port complex in the world. In 2017 the port group handled a total cargo throughput of one billion tonnes. The port complex is part of the maritime Silk Road and has the largest deep-water facilities in China. The port's maritime connections increased substantially after China's Belt and Road initiative. In addition, the port has commenced sea-rail transport services with trains providing services to 30 cities in China as well as countries in central and northern Asia and eastern Europe. The container handling volume of its sea-rail transport is expected to surpass 400,000 TEU this year, a 60 per cent increase compared to 2017. Ningbo-Zhoushan handled 10 million TEU from countries along the Belt and Road in 2017, up 16 per cent compared to 2016.

MAN PrimeServ to have service workshop at Zhoushan Xinya Shipyard

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MAN PrimeServ is have a service workshop in Zhoushan Xinya Shipyard. An agreement was signed between Jeffrey Ang, vice president, head of engine and marine systems Asia Pacific for MAN Diesel & Turbo, and Zhou Boting, vice general manager of Xinya, during Marintec China. Under the agreement Xinya will build a 560 sq m service workshop which is due to be completed in August 2018. From the workshop MAN PrimeServ will provide service for diesel engines, propellers and turbochargers in the new service workshop. “As MAN’s service brand, MAN PrimeServ is determined to become a preferred service provider,” said Ang at the signing ceremony. “With the establishment of the new service spot, we are closer to the customers, thus being able to provide more efficient and prompt service to the shipowners.” Xinya repairs 400 vessels annually.

Ningbo Zhoushan port's digital platform boosts sea-rail volumes 72pc

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NINGBO Zhoushan Port saw its sea-railway intermodal volumes increase by 72 per cent over the first eight months of the year. The strong performance was in part due to the implementation of a digital platform that reveals real-time container information. Combined rail-sea freight volumes reached 25.4 million TEU over this period, while port authorities at the world's fourth busiest container port pursued platform integration, using advanced operational and management models to improve service efficiency. To do this it integrated an operations centre at port's railway station, or Beilun handling station, and brought sea and railway transport operations into the "paperless" era, reported London's Port Technology International. Cooperation among sea-rail transport businesses has been expanding to let the port take full advantage of land and sea port linkage for large customers, offer customised door to door logistics services, and speed up allocation of empty containers. Ningbo Zhoushan port said in May that it had extended a sea-railway intermodal transport line to the entire Jiangxi province. The port then implemented a digital service platform to reach new sea-railway intermodal markets from Jiangxi to Ningbo Zhoushan port.  It had used a sea-railway data-sharing platform integrated with NPRC-Jiangxi branch to allow for systematic interaction between ports, shipping companies and forwarders. Using this platform helped to regulate port operations, integrate customs clearance, lower logistics costs for customers and create favourable conditions for port sea-railway intermodal logistic channels, the port said.

Ningbo Zhoushan Port opens the 1st cross-border transport shipping route

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 “Shunxing 6” ship, which is a container ship for cross-border transportation of domestic trade cargoes, docked at the No 6 berth of Zhenhai Port Area of Ningbo Zhoushan Port on May 25th. The ship was loaded with 106 containers (totally 2862 tons) of colloid corns. The cargoes were exited by a port in Huichun City of Yanbian Prefecture in Jilin Province, were delivered to Rajin Port in North Korea by land transport and then were shipped to Ningbo by maritime transport. This indicated that Ningbo Zhoushan Port has successfully opened the firstshipping route for cross-border transport of domestic trade containers. Domestic trade cargoes cross-border transport is a transport mode where domestic trade cargoes start shipment from a port in Chinese territory and are transported to another port in Chinese territory via overseas territory. Since Ningbo city convened the meeting for one-to-one support of counties (cities) in Yanbian prefecture, relevant person in charge of Zhenhai Port Stevedoring Branch (ZPSB) and Business Department of Ningbo Zhoushan Port Co., Ltd. rushed to Huichun city to connect the shipping route services and do all the preparatory works for the opening of the cross-border transport shipping route for domestic trade cargoes from Huichun to Ningbo.ZPSB focused on coals, timbers and grains, thoroughly exploited market, visited clients and helped Jingxin Grain Depot of Huichun Municipal Grain Bureau and a grain enterprise in Ningbo to reach grain purchase agreement. It’s expected that about 100,000 tons of colloid corns will be shipped to south by the shipping route annually. The opening of cross-border transport shipping route for domestic trade container from Huichun to Ningbo was a breakthrough for the one-on-one cooperation between Ningbo city and Yanbian city and shore up the weakness of Jinlin province where there is no seaport. The distance for the land transport of cargoes from Jilin province to Rajin Port is shortened by over 1000km compared to that from Jilin to Dalian Port. Thus, transport cost can be effective reduced and turnover time is shortened. In addition, the opening of the shipping route also enhanced Ningbo Zhoushan Port’s radiation scope and quality of the domestic trade shipping routes in North China, further improve the cargoes transport channel between north and south and enhance the positive economic interaction between Zhejiang province and the various regions in north China.

Ningbo-Zhoushan port Q1 box volumes up 9.1%

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China’s Ningbo Zhoushan Port Group has updated that container handling volumes at Ningbo-Zhoushan port have risen over the first three months of this year compared to the year-ago level. Throughput during the first quarter was recorded at 6.2m teu, an increase of 9.1% compared to the same period of 2016, according to Shanghai-listed Ningbo Zhoushan Port Group. In March, the Chinese port moved 2.12m teu of containers, up 13.2% year-on-year. In 2016, Ningbo-Zhoushan port registered throughput of 23.3m teu, making it the world’s fourth busiest container port.

Ningbo-Zhoushan port Q1 box volume up 9pc to over 6m TEU

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CONTAINER throughput at China's Ningbo-Zhoushan port was 6.2 million TEU during the first three months of the year, an increase of 9.1 per cent during the same period of 2016, according to Shanghai-listed Ningbo Zhoushan Port Group. In March, the Chinese port moved 2.12 million TEU, up 13.2 per cent year on year, the Seatrade Maritime News of Colchester, UK, reported. In 2016, Ningbo-Zhoushan port registered a throughput of 23.3 million TEU, making it the world's fourth busiest container port.