Fujian's annual container volume expected to reach 10.5 million TEU

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FUJIAN's Province Transportation Department expects to see provincial port container volume reach 10.5 million TEU and overall tonnage reach 400 million tonnes in 2012, Xinhua reports. Statistics shows, during the first half of year, Fujian sea ports handled 4.87 million TEU, up 10.3 per cent year on year. Their throughput tonnage increased 8.5 per cent to 193 million tonnes. With completion of a number of harbour-front industry projects and construction projects of berths, Xiamen, the province's largest port, is gathering speed in development towards the status of southeast China's shipping hub. Commencement of operations at four "dry-ports" in the hinterland will also bring fuel to the throughput growth in Fujian.

Pearl River Delta's Humen first half box volume up 2,795pc to 362,000 TEU

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GUANGDONG province river port Humen has enjoyed rapid growth since this year, posting 2,795 per cent increase in its year on year box volume to 362,000 TEU in the first six months after using its four container berths, according to Xinhua's report. Other than saying Humen has attracted investments of CNY27.53 billion (US$4.32 billion) on 27 projects this year, China's official news agency Xinhua gave no reason for the sudden upsurge. This is a local port in one section of conurbation that extends up the Pearl River through Dongguan into the provincial capital of Guangzhou. In the same period, the port's bulk terminal handled 21.83 million tonnes, more than double the volume handled in the first half of 2011. Petrochemical terminal's throughput increased 30.7 per cent to 3.2 million tonnes, taking up one fifth of Guangdong's total. Meanwhile, Dongguan Bonded Logistics Centre, located at Humen port, handled 32,166 batches of trade cargo, up 296 per cent year on year. Value of this cargo surged 357 per cent to $1.69 billion.

Fujian's half-year box volume up 10pc to 4.87 million TEU

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FROM January to June, ports in southeast China's Fujian province lifted 4.87 million TEU, up 10.3 per cent year on year, Xinhua reports. Xiamen, the province's largest port, handled 3.21 million TEU, up 11.8 per cent. Fuzhou port lifted 851,200 TEU, up 8.1 per cent. In the same period, the collective throughput tonnage of these ports increased 8.3 per cent to 192 million tonnes. Xiamen recorded 79.65 million tonnes, up 4.5 per cent. Fuzhou's climbed 11.1 per cent to 52.1 million tonnes.

HK box volume down 6.8pc in June to 1.9 million TEU, Singapore rises 9.2pc

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FIGURES from the Hong Kong Marine Department show the port handled 1.9 million TEU in June, a year on year decrease of 6.8 per cent over the two million TEU in June of last year. Singapore's Maritime and Port Authority reported a 9.2 per cent increase in container movement in June, having handled 2.7 million TEU compared to 2.5 million TEU in June last year.

Port of Ma'anshan 5-month box volume up 9pc to 287,000 TEU

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PORT of Ma'anshan, in eastern Jiangsu province, lifted 287,000 TEU in the first five months of this year, nine per cent more than in the same period a year ago, Xinhua reports. The port's throughput grew 11.8 per cent to 27.2 million tonnes. Foreign trade cargo increased 7.5 per cent to 287,000 tonnes. As Yangtze River's water level went higher in May, more vessels could sail on the river to the port, bringing a year-on-year growth of 17.3 per cent to the port's throughput in this month to 6.22 million tonnes. In the same month, the port recorded a container throughput of 7,372 TEU and a foreign trade cargo throughput of 64,000 tonnes.

Port of Haikou's volume expected to hit 100 million tonnes by 2015

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TWO new port areas, Macun and Xinhai, are soon to start construction at south Hainan province's Port of Haikou, expected to raise Haikou's annual throughput to 100 million tonnes after they are finished in 2015. The project cost CNY8.89 billion (US$1.4 billion) to build. After completion, Macun and Xinhai port area will be the new traffic and logistics hub, raising Haikou port's annual container throughput to 1.8 million TEU. At the meantime, the port's passenger throughput is expected to increase to 20 million people a year.

Shenzhen throughput down as trade weakens

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Shenzhen's container throughput dropped 2.4 per cent year-on-year to 1.88 million TEUs last month in yet another sign of the mainland's weakening trade, reported the South china Morning Post. This is the first year-on-year decline in container throughput for the mainland's second-busiest and the world's fourth-busiest port since January and the first monthly decline since February. In comparison, its container throughput rose 3.4 per cent year-on- year in May and 5.6 per cent in April. "The June figures are not good for Shenzhen, indicating trade is getting worse," Sunny Ho Lap-kee, executive director of the Hong Kong Shippers' Council, said. Thousands of Hong Kong-owned factories in the Pearl River Delta, a region long seen as the factory to the world, export their goods through the ports of Shenzhen and Hong Kong. Ho said that at a meeting two weeks ago, Hong Kong exporters said they were facing a very difficult environment. "The situation is more difficult than the port figures of Hong Kong and Shenzhen suggest. They found it hard to believe that Hong Kong and Shenzhen ports had positive growth in the first five months of this year, as their business had decreased significantly," he said. During the first six months of this year, Shenzhen's container throughput grew 1.3 per cent year-on-year, according to the Shenzhen Ports Association. In the first five months, the container throughput of Hong Kong, the world's third-busiest port, rose two percent to 9.98 million TEUs, according to the Hong Kong Port Development Council. "The situation for Hong Kong manufacturers is even worse, because they still focus on Europe and the US. These markets have been hit harder than Asia. The Pearl River Delta exports have a much higher focus on the EU and US [than other Chinese ports]," Ho said.  

Beihai port's half-year container throughput up 22.7pc to 40,739 TEU

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FROM January to June, Beihai, a port on the Gulf of Tonkin in southwest China's Guangxi Autonomous Region, recorded a container throughput of 40,739 TEU, 22.7 per cent more than in the same period a year ago. The port's overall throughput increased 10.64 per cent to 7.95 million tonnes, said Xinhua. In the same period, Beihai Port Company, operator of Beihai port, recorded a throughput tonnage of 5.31 million tonnes, up 25 per cent year on year.

Qingdao Port throughput hits 200 million tons

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The Qingdao Port, Shandong province, recorded 200 billion tons of throughput and 7 million standard containers from January to June, according to the provincial transportation department. Starting this year, the Port increased marketing to offer shipping of iron ores and upgraded its loading berths to improve its competitiveness. A total of two iron ore berths and two common berths, designed to ship 31.92 million tons of cargo per year, have been built in the port.

Shanghai container throughput up 5.7% in June

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Shanghai Port, the world's busiest container port, saw its container volume in June rise 5.7 percent from the previous year, with the growth rate picking up for the second straight month, data issued by the port's operator showed, reported Reuters. Container throughput reached 2.77 million TEUs, down from 2.84 million TEUs in May. The annual growth rate nearly doubled from May's 2.8 percent. Trade data for June is due later. According to economists polled by Reuters, trade data is expected to show annual export growth of 9.9 percent in June and import growth at 12.7 percent. Zhuge Yujie, president of Shanghai International Port (Group), the port's operator, warned in May that growth would slow this year to two to three percent as the economy slows.

Dredged to 21 metres, Tianjin's extended navigation channel completed

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THE Port of Tianjin's 300,000-tonne navigational channel dredging project has been finished, Xinhua reports. The CNY1.4-billion (US$220.3 million) project began in March last year, which covers a distance of 33.3 kilometres. It was an expansion on the existing 250,000-tonne navigational channel, dredged from 19.5 to 21 metres and extended from 44 to 45.5 kilometres. Tianjin is the largest comprehensive port in northern China. Last year, it recorded a throughput of 11.5 million TEU in terms of container and 450 million tonnes in terms of cargo tonnage, up nine per cent year on year, ranking it fourth in the world.

Qingdao expects more growth as first half box volume tops 7 million TEU

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PORT of Qingdao announced that its half-year container throughput this year has exceeded 7 million TEU, while its throughput tonnage has exceeded 200 million tonnes, Xinhua reports. This year, Qingdao will spend more than CNY10 billion (US$1.57 billion) on port projects. 12 new berths will be built at the Dongjiakou port area. By the end of next year, Dongjiakou will have a capacity of 222.6 million tonnes. By 2015, Dongjiakou's throughput will hit 300 million tonnes, while Qingdao's throughput will reach 600 million tonnes.