Bao Feiyang said: "The Secretary-General made a very incisive summary of the development history and characteristics of Pujiang Port in an article, in which he pointed out that Pujiang Port is a hinterland port and can be connected to the hinterland by road, rail and Tianjiang, which is the biggest advantage of Pujiang Port. So, has the Secretary-General ever thought about whether it is possible for Pujiang Port to become a transshipment port while maintaining its advantages as a hinterland port?"

"There is still a big difference between a transshipment port and a hinterland port!"

Guo Liguo smiled and said: "I know that Huixun District has proposed to fix the beach and stop sand in Xunchao Port at the mouth of the Tianjiang River, by building a long causeway overseas, promoting land reclamation, building a port in the sea, and expanding the artificial island in the sea area of Dajishan, this plan is indeed very ambitious, but the construction cost is too high, and the impact of the ocean storm is relatively large, and the distance from the current Gaoqiao port area is nearly 100 kilometers more. The cost of transshipment in the Chunshan port area is higher, so from a practical point of view, the Xunchao plan is not costly, and the funds for land reclamation and the construction of artificial islands are used to dredge the Tianjiang waterway, which can also make the Tianjiang waterway have the conditions for a deep-water channel of more than 10 meters."

The shoreline conditions of Huixun District are even worse than those of Chundong New Area, and the coastline is affected by sediment alluvium, lacking a good deep-water coastline and deep-water channel, and does not have the conditions for building a deep-water port.

Bao Feiyang nodded, Huixun District has the largest fishing port in the Pujiang River, but it does lack a deep-water coastline and cannot build a deep-water port, so it will consider using the outlying islands to build a deep-water port.

Guo Liguo said: "Pujiang Port Company has a plan, through dredging, in 2000 to make the Tianjiangkou channel meet the requirements of -.5 meters of deep waterway, in 2003 to reach the requirements of -0 meters, in 2005 to reach the requirements of -2.5 meters of water depth, can meet the fourth-generation container ships all-weather access to Gaoqiao, Chunshan port area, the sixth generation of container ships can also take the tide in and out of the port area around the clock, to 200 years, with about ten years, the Tianjiangkou channel is also feasible to -5 meters of water depth, then it can fully meet the needs of all-weather access to ultra-large container ships, compared with the Xunchao program, this program is more economical, more mature, and the effect is fast, it should be the most superior. ”..

Guo Liguo said: "Coming back to the issue of international transshipment ports you just mentioned, the outlying island deep-water port plan is aimed at building an international transshipment port, after all, the outlying island port is closer to international routes, and transshipment is more convenient." However, Pujiang Port is very different from Busan, Kobe, and Xinseong ports, and what type of international shipping center a port becomes mainly depends on its geographical location and economic hinterland. Within the framework of Asia-Pacific shipping, the existing international shipping centers such as Busan, Kobe, Xincheng Port and Kaohsiung are mostly distributed on the islands around the East Asian continent and are close to the main international shipping routes, of which Busan and Kobe are located on the trans-Pacific route, and Xincheng Port and Kaohsiung are located on the routes between East Asia and the Middle East and Europe. ”

"The actual situation is also the same, through the Pujiang port transit containers and goods are very few, for a country with a very vast territory and hinterland such as China, because its own import and export trade transportation volume is quite huge, so in the process of developing an international shipping center, it is necessary to pay special attention to the import and export services of the country, so whether it is from the geographical location, or the economic development of the hinterland, the primary task of Pujiang Port is to serve the import and export of goods in our country, he is born to be a hinterland port, not a transshipment port!"

Bao Feiyang smiled, Guo Liguo's analysis has a certain truth, compared with Busan, Kobe, Xincheng Port, Pujiang City does not have an advantage in the route, Pujiang Port throughput mainly relies on the hinterland to complete, this hinterland includes not only the import and export of goods in Pujiang City itself, but also the entire Tianjiang River Basin and the Tianjiang Delta region.

An international transshipment port like Xincheng Port has a different model than Pujiang Port.

The development trend of modern shipping and ocean-going freighters is that the tonnage is getting larger and larger, after all, giant freighters can carry more cargo, even if the increased construction cost and transportation cost are taken into account, the transportation cost per unit of cargo can also be reduced a lot.

Among the ocean freighters, 10,000-ton cargo ships have been regarded as small tonnage, more and more large cargo ships of more than 100,000 tons, and more than 200,000 tons of cargo ships are not uncommon, the container capacity of the fifth generation container ship has exceeded 4000U, and the latest sixth-generation container ship can reach 000U and will soon enter the era of 10,000 containers.

A container ship carries thousands of containers of cargo, in addition to oil, natural gas, iron ore and other bulk cargo, most of the mega cargo ships carry goods with multiple shippers, and the final destination is different.

But for giant freighters, their destinations are generally some large ports, such as goods shipped to China, the south often docks at Xingang and Yangcheng ports, the goods in East China and the Tianjiang River basin dock at Pujiang Port, and most of the northern ones go to Qindao Port, Liancheng Port and Jincheng Port, and then transship at the port.

Strictly speaking, every port is a transshipment port, and the same is true of Pujiang Port, where a large number of goods are transported to Pujiang Port from all over the world, and then transshipped to all parts of the country by road, railway, Tianjiang, and even offshore freighters.

However, Pujiang Port is not the same as Xincheng Port, Busan Port, and these transshipment ports.

Generally speaking, a freighter departing from the port of Hamburg, Germany, if its destination is Pujiang port, it is difficult to have so many cargoes from Hamburg to Pujiang at once.

Normally, there are two ways to deal with it, one is that a large number of goods from the surrounding area to Pujiang are concentrated in Hamburg and then loaded from Hamburg together. Another option is for the mega ship from Hamburg to load cargo destined for East Asia, which may be divided into many different countries, and then arrive at Neustadt, a hub that can be combined with cargo destined for different countries.

Generally speaking, the first method does not guarantee that large ships are fully loaded with cargo destined for the same port of destination, but ships from Europe, Africa and the Middle East to Asia must pass through the Strait of Malacca, where the new port is sufficient to accommodate cargo to different destinations.

A large number of cargo ships from Europe, Africa, and the Middle East to Asia, the goods on these ships may be to Pujiang Port in Huaxia, or to Busan Port in South Korea, and a cargo ship may have goods to many different countries, and when they arrive at Xincheng Port, they will gather the goods from different countries and transfer them to different ships, and those to Pujiang Port will be loaded on one cargo ship, and those that go to Busan will be loaded on another ship.

In this way, there are more opportunities for cargo ships departing from the Port of Hamburg to be fully loaded with cargo bound for Southeast Asia and East Asia. Then after arriving at the new port, they can transfer the goods on board to different countries, and this cargo ship from the port of Hamburg can gather the goods to a certain country in Asia, or they can gather the goods to Europe to return, if they go to the Asian port, after they unload, they can load the goods through the Strait of Malacca, to Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and then continue to transship in Malacca

This transshipment method can make full use of the capacity of the giant freighter, so that it will not be empty, waste capacity, and do not need to run away.

With its unique geographical location and unique Strait of Malacca, Metro Port has developed into a world-class shipping center and the world's largest transshipment port.

Compared with Xinchenggang, Pujiang City does not have such a geographical advantage, and now most of the cargo ships from Europe, Africa and the Middle East to East Asia are transshipped at Xincheng Port, and there are very few freighters transshipment to other countries in Pujiang.

Bao Feiyang smiled and said: "Secretary-General, can I also understand it this way, to a certain extent, the hinterland port is actually a kind of transshipment port, but the destination of transshipment is the hinterland area, and the transshipment port can also be regarded as a hinterland port, but the hinterland covers a relatively large area."

"If the hinterland of Pujiang Port is China, then the hinterland of Xincheng Port is Southeast Asia and East Asia"

Guo Liguo nodded: "You can also understand it this way, the reason why Xincheng Port can use East Asian and Southeast Asian countries as the hinterland is because they have the geographical advantage of the Strait of Malacca, and for Pujiang Port, it is also because it is located at the mouth of the Tianjiang River and in the middle of the north and south of China, so it can make China a hinterland."

Bao Feiyang said: "To put it bluntly, Xincheng Port can become an international transshipment port because they have a large enough hinterland, and the most important point is that there are enough cargoes and enough cargo ships in Xincheng Port. ”

"Compared with Xincheng Port, Pujiang Port also has an advantage, that is, the hinterland economy is strong, and Pujiang is close to the route from Southeast Asia to Northeast Asia, which makes Pujiang Port also have the possibility of becoming an international transshipment port. ”

"If China's economy can be as strong as that of the United States, and there are enough goods entering and leaving Pujiang Port, then ocean-going freighters do not need to transit at Xincheng Port, and the cost of transshipment directly to Pujiang Port will definitely be lower. ”

Bao Feiyang said: "After all, there is also a cost for goods to be transshipped in Xincheng Port. And after these goods arrive at Pujiang Port, they will have to be transferred to the hinterland again, which is of course cheaper to directly arrive at Pujiang Port!"

"In addition, the freighter is transferred in Xincheng Port, it is not economical to use a small boat, and it is necessary to transship again if a large ship is used, and if it is transferred in Pujiang Port, the large ship can be transported directly to Pujiang Port, and then directly transferred by a small boat, which is much more economical."

Guo Liguo looked at Bao Feiyang, and suddenly smiled: "District Chief Bao, they all say that you are very bold and have a very high vision, and I have finally seen it now!"