Zhou Kunlin added: "The construction cost of the deep-water port on the outlying islands is high, and the zoning problem is difficult to coordinate, so the city still tends to solve the problem by dredging the waterway, artificial islands or land reclamation......

Zhou Kunlin said: "The port group proposed to focus on the dredging of the waterway and the construction of Gaoqiao New Port in the near future to solve the current needs, and in the medium and long term, the Hengsha artificial island or the Tianjiangkou reclamation plan is the goal, and the preliminary work can be carried out, and once the conditions are ripe, the construction can be started." ”

Bao Feiyang couldn't help frowning: "The port group intends to promote the Hengsha plan?"

Although Zhou Kunlin also mentioned the Tianjiangzui plan, but Tianjiangzui is located in Huixun District, if the port group is really interested in this plan, it must communicate with Huixun District, Bao Feiyang, as the head of Huixun District, did not get this news, it can be seen that the port group has not started the relevant work, what they really want should be the Hengsha artificial island plan.

Compared with the big and small Yangshan Island plan, the advantage of the Hengsha artificial island plan is that Hengsha Island belongs to Pujiang City, and the construction in Hengsha will not be interfered by different administrative divisions, and there is no trouble in follow-up management. Another advantage of Hengsha Island is that Hengsha Island has a larger land area and a longer usable coastline.

According to the plan, the length of the coastline of the Xiaoyangshan port area is about 13 kilometers, and the land area of the port area is 10 square kilometers, compared with the Hengsha scheme, which can provide 60 kilometers of deep-water coastline and hundreds of square kilometers of land area, which has obvious advantages.

In addition, Hengsha Island is at the mouth of the Tianjiang River, across the river from the Gaoqiao Port Area, compared with Yangshan Port, the cargo ships on the Tianjiang River should save nearly 100 kilometers of voyage and corresponding time, the cost is lower, and it is more time-saving.

There is a more important point, Hengsha Island is at the mouth of the Tianjiang River, and the river ships can directly reach the port of Hengsha Island, in contrast, the river ships cannot go directly to the Yangshan deep-water port on the sea, and some river ships also need to transit.

From the perspective of the port, if the Hengsha artificial island scheme can be built, it will have more advantages than Yangshan Port. But this plan also has two very fatal shortcomings, one is that the construction cost is too high, the cycle is too long, the core of the artificial island plan is land reclamation, even if there are many shoals around Hengsha Island, but to build land, islands, long cycle, high cost, this is unavoidable. Second, after the completion of the Hengsha artificial island, it will greatly change the hydrological environment of the Tianjiang Estuary and affect the ecology, and the specific impact needs to be more fully assessed. In other words, the Hengsha plan has certain advantages over the Yangshan plan, but it is impossible to start it in the short term.

"This plan...... Did the port group bring it up?" asked Bao Feiyang.

In fact, in addition to the dredging of the channel, Pujiang City has been studying the Tianjiangkou plan and the outlying island plan, and has communicated with Jiangbei Province many times, hoping to obtain several desert islands that originally belonged to Jiangbei Province.

However, Jiangbei Province's response is not positive, Jiangbei Province hopes that Pujiang City can stand in the perspective of the integration of the Tianjiang Delta, and build a port in Tongcheng with more favorable conditions, and if the desert island is handed over to Pujiang City to build a deep-water port, not only the Tongcheng deep-water port will become a bubble, but the water depth advantage of Tongcheng Port compared with Pujiang Port will also disappear, and it will directly divide a lot of logistics of Tongcheng Port, so whether it is from the perspective of interests or from the aspect of land ownership, Jiangbei Province is unwilling to hand over the desert island to Pujiang City.

But even so, considering the urgent needs of Pujiang Port for the deep-water port area, as well as the comprehensive conditions of all aspects, the outlying island deep-water port plan is still more feasible than the Hengsha artificial island plan, and there are more supporters.

Zhou Kunlin nodded and said: "It was proposed by the port group, and they hope to start the research and demonstration of the Hengsha artificial island plan at the same time as the dredging of the waterway and the construction of the new port area of Gaoqiao, and start the plan to build an island by sand as soon as possible, after all, the biggest problem of this plan is that the cycle of island building will be relatively long." ”

At that time, China could quietly build a large number of artificial islands in the South China Sea, but at present, while the country is in financial difficulties, it does not have the capacity to build so many islands, and large dredgers cannot build their own dredgers, so the stock is even smaller.

Bao Feiyang couldn't help but smile self-deprecatingly: "So Pugang Group gave up the outlying island deep-water port project that cost more than 10 billion yuan and chose the Hengsha artificial island plan that cost hundreds of billions?"

Zhou Kunlin shook his head: "This is not comparable, the more than 10 billion yuan of Yangshan deep-water port is only the cost of the first phase of the project, and it is only the construction of the port and the cross-sea bridge, and the Hengsha artificial island costs 100 billion yuan, including the sand reclamation project, but after the reclamation project is over, hundreds of square kilometers of land will be added, and the value of the land is also very large!"

"So...... Mayor Zhou, are you also very optimistic about the Hengsha artificial island plan?" Bao Feiyang glanced up at Zhou Kunlin.

Zhou Kunlin said: "From the port itself, the Hengsha artificial island scheme has some incomparable advantages of the outlying island deep-water port scheme, that is, river-sea intermodal transport, river ships can directly enter the port, and sea vessels can also enter the port directly, while Yangshan deep-water port needs to be transshipped once, and the distance is farther, which brings higher costs......

"As for the cost of reclamation and island reclamation, Pugang Group proposed that it could be combined with the waterway dredging project to use the dredged sediment to reclaim the island......

Zhou Kunlin paused for a moment and continued: "Of course, even so, the cost is still very high, and the cycle will still be very long, in terms of cost, Pugang Group proposed that through international financing, talk about Ma Xi, Xincheng Port is also willing to invest in the construction of deep-water ports......

Bao Feiyang smiled unexpectedly: "Are they willing to invest in the reclamation project or the construction of the dock berth?"

Zhou Kunlin shook his head: "Of course, it is the construction of the wharf, but they are willing to provide an international syndicated loan to the island-building project." ”

Bao Feiyang was silent for a moment before he spoke: "Mayor Zhou, the Hengsha artificial island plan, in terms of ports, does have certain advantages over Yangshan deep-water port, and its advantages are mainly reflected in the land area, river-sea combined transportation, etc., but the problem of Hengsha artificial island lies in the ecological impact and the ...... construction cycle."

Bao Feiyang did not mention the issue of cost, in his opinion, even if the overall cost of the Hengsha artificial island plan is higher, as long as it is valuable, then it can be implemented. A very important reason why Bao Feiyang prefers the outlying deep-water port scheme is that the construction period is closer to the international route with Yangshan Port, which will be more beneficial to Pujiang Port to compete for international transshipment business, and environmental issues also make him quite suspicious.

Bao Feiyang said: "Pujiang City to build an international shipping center, deep-water port is indispensable, and it is also imminent, it is recommended that the city set up a special working group, invite experts in related fields, Hengsha artificial island plan and deep-water port plan as soon as possible to investigate and demonstrate, focusing on the impact of the artificial island plan on the hydrological ecological environment of the Tianjiang Estuary, as well as the impact on the ecology of the river basin, as soon as possible to draw scientific conclusions, for the Pujiang deep-water port construction decision-making reference......

Speaking of this, Bao Feiyang paused for a moment and continued: " If the experts believe that the artificial island plan will not have an extremely adverse impact on the hydrological ecology of the river basin and the Tianjiang estuary, then we can speed up the process of promoting the siltation of the transverse sand and start the construction of a deep-water port as soon as possible, if it may cause devastating ecological disasters and environmental impacts, or if it is impossible to draw a conclusion in a short time, then I suggest that the city start the plan of the deep-water port of the outlying islands as soon as possible, after all, the situation waits for no one, there is no deep-water port in Pujiang for a day, and the construction of an international shipping center is empty talk……”

A real international shipping center is not only based on the cargo throughput of the port, even if the cargo throughput of Pujiang Port reaches the world's first, it can only be called the world's largest port, but it may not be able to become an international shipping center.

An international shipping center should be the main hub in the global cargo and passenger flow network, with developed international routes covering the world, the corresponding service network and the logistics system of water, land and air collection and distribution system, the core of which is a deep-water port.

As an international shipping center, it is not only a gathering place for ships and containers, but also a center for the allocation of international shipping resources, including shipping value-added services, entrepot trade services and logistics services to form an international transit industry chain and achieve orderly and efficient allocation of shipping resources.

Therefore, an international shipping center should have dense shipping routes, excellent deep-water waterways, and an efficient collection and distribution network, as well as developed financial, trade, information and other functions for the shipping industry. It is a seaport city based on advanced port facilities, relying on the economic, trade and financial center that radiates the world, with a high concentration of relevant shipping elements and high international influence.

That is to say, a shipping center should not only have a large amount of cargo throughput, but also have enough influence in routes, collection and distribution logistics, trade, finance, etc., and play a pivotal role in the international shipping system.

For example, as an international shipping center city of London, the port cargo throughput has been very limited, but London is still the world's shipping center, because London occupies a pivotal position in the shipping-related high-end service industry, more than 1,000 high-end shipping service agencies registered and operated in London, including marine insurance institutions, shipping agencies and shipping associations, consulting and investigation agencies, ship leasing companies, shipping information and communication technology services, classification societies, media publishing, international organizations, etc., in the shipping economy, Shipping freight service indices and derivatives, shipping financial services, marine insurance and loss adjustment services, as well as legal and arbitration services all have a huge impact.