To put it simply, an international shipping center not only needs a huge cargo throughput, but also does not need a huge cargo throughput, as long as it can have a large enough impact on the world shipping industry, it is an international shipping center.

Of course, the formation of the world's major international shipping centers, cargo throughput and collection and distribution are the starting point, so Pujiang Port to become an international shipping center, first of all, to expand its own cargo throughput and throughput capacity, only on the basis of huge throughput, Pujiang City is likely to become an international shipping center.

On this basis, Pujiang City will also play an increasingly important role in international shipping, including the volume of international transit flows, the number of international routes, the number of shipping and auxiliary industry enterprises, as well as the influence in related industries, including shipping transactions, shipping financing, shipping insurance, average adjustment, maritime arbitration, ship leasing, cargo transportation, cruise economy, terminal services, ship agency, freight forwarding and other industries.

That is to say, Pujiang City to become an international shipping center, must radiate the influence of the industry to the whole world, although with the strong economic hinterland of the Tianjiang Basin, Pujiang Port is expected to become the world's largest container port in ten years, but only hinterland logistics, is not enough to make Pujiang Port have enough international influence.

Throughout the world's major shipping centers, Xincheng Port is an international transshipment hub port, London used to be the world's logistics center, and now it is the center of high-end services in the shipping industry, Xingang is also an international transshipment hub port, and the high-end shipping service industry of Xingang is also in line with London, leading the world, Rotterdam is the most important transshipment port in southwest Europe, and New York is an international financial center......

In contrast, Pujiang Port has the advantage of developing a fast-growing hinterland, and the demand for cargo throughput will increase rapidly in the foreseeable future, but the international influence of Pujiang City in related industries is still minimal.

In order to build Pujiang City into an international shipping center, with reference to the development of other international shipping centers, it is necessary to gradually gather enterprises and talents in related industries with a huge cargo throughput, form intensive routes and flights, frequent and large number of shipping transactions, shipping financing, drive the development of terminal services, shipping agents, freight forwarders and other related industries, and gradually form an international influence.

However, today is different from the past, when the Port of Rotterdam rose, Europe was the birthplace of the Great Voyage, when the Port of London rose, Britain was the real empire on which the sun never set, when the New York Port rose, the United States was the hegemon of the New World and the world, and the rise of the New City Port was due to the unique geographical location, and the New Port was also because of the good geographical environment and special political environment, making it the only transit port for China at that time......

Nowadays, the international cargo of Xingang is facing competition from mainland ports, and the growth is increasingly weak, and it will be continuously left behind by Xinchenggang in the future. With the dredging of the Tianjiang channel, 10,000-ton and 50,000-ton cargo ships will be able to dock directly at Taicheng Port and Changcheng Port, although the development of China is very fast, the future occupies a large share of international trade logistics, but compared with the international status of London and New York, it is still quite inferior.

In other words, Pujiang Port relies on hinterland logistics to become the world's largest port, but this is not enough to support Pujiang Port to become an international shipping center, and Pujiang Port must also make great efforts to enhance its global influence in the shipping industry.

Bao Feiyang always believes that Pujiang Port and surrounding ports should form a coordinated development system and share the dividends of river-sea intermodal logistics in the entire Tianjiang Economic Belt. On the one hand, this is because Pujiang City's port resources, shoreline resources and even land resources are in short supply, Pujiang City can not eat the huge logistics demand of the entire Tianjiang Basin, nor does it need to eat the entire logistics, Pujiang Port should take over the most suitable part of its own logistics, and then provide corresponding shipping services for the entire surrounding ports, such as shipping transactions, financing, shipping agency and so on.

On the one hand, Pujiang City should vigorously improve its own port capacity and service quality, on the other hand, relying on the huge logistics throughput capacity and demand of Pujiang Port and even surrounding ports, Pujiang City should vigorously develop the shipping service industry, improve the shipping service industry, take Pujiang Port as the center, radiate the surrounding areas, this is what a center looks like.

But only that, Pujiang City is only the Tianjiang River Basin and East China shipping center, not an international shipping center, to become an international shipping center, Pujiang City also has to rely on the huge logistics, so that its own shipping service industry influence radiation neighboring countries and the world, on the one hand, to rely on its own huge logistics and shipping, on the other hand, to continuously improve the level of related services.

If Pujiang Port can develop international transit business, it will also promote the acceleration of this process.

Pujiang Port is adjacent to the main east-west channel of the world, and theoretically speaking, goods from Europe, Africa and South Asia to Northeast Asia through the Strait of Malacca can be transited at Pujiang Port, and cargo ships from Northeast Asia to Southeast Asia and through Malacca can also be loaded at Pujiang Port. Including routes to the Americas, it can also be stowage at Pujiang Port. Pujiang Port can not only use the Tianjiang River basin as the hinterland, but also the northern coastal ports, the ports of Japan and South Korea on the opposite side, and the Russian Far East as the radiation range.

The development of international transit business, on the one hand, can improve the logistics throughput of Pujiang Port, on the other hand, it is also to force Pujiang Port and Pujiang City to improve the relevant service level, and the development of international transit business can also directly enhance the status and influence of Pujiang Port in international shipping, and directly promote the construction of Pujiang International Shipping Center.

In this era, a port that relies solely on domestic logistics needs has no way to become an international shipping center, and the only way to enhance the international competitiveness of Pujiang Port is to develop international transit business.

Pujiang Port wants to develop international transit business, and there are many competitors, including Xingang, Kaohsiung, Busan, Jincheng, Nagasaki, etc., all of which will be affected, but the biggest competitor is Xinchenggang.

Xincheng Port is the world's largest international transit port, and about 90% of its logistics are international transit logistics, due to the special geographical location, Xincheng Port has incomparable advantages, Pujiang Port can not replace the unique geographical advantages of Xincheng Port, but once Pujiang Port develops international transit business, it will inevitably pose a huge threat to Xincheng Port.

In the cargo throughput of Xincheng Port, nearly 90% are transit business, in these transit business, part of the transit business in Southeast Asia, this part of the business belongs to the distribution of transshipment business, that is, the ports of many countries in Southeast Asia as a feeding port, the goods will be sent to Xincheng Port, and then loaded on ocean freighters after concentration, because Xincheng Port is the intersection of international trunk routes, but also the transshipment center of Southeast Asia. Pujiang Port has no way to participate in this part of the business, and it does not need to participate.

However, there is also a part of the transshipment business of Xincheng Port belongs to the interchange of routes, Xincheng Port is the intersection of many routes, such as Japan to Europe, Busan to Europe, Pujiang to Europe routes will meet in Xincheng Port, ocean freighter flights can not guarantee the full load of goods that finally arrive at the port every time, through the trunk interchange port for transshipment, can improve the efficiency of cargo ship full load and transshipment, so Asia-Europe flights have more berthing and transshipment in Xincheng Port.

In addition, Xincheng Port is also the terminus of many Eurasian routes and US-Asia routes, which will also bring a large amount of transshipment business.

Pujiang Port relies on the Matthew effect formed by a large amount of cargo throughput, which can attract more and more cargo ships to berth in Pujiang, if Pujiang has enough cargo to let ocean freighters fully loaded with goods that finally arrive at the port, they do not need to berth and transship in Xingang and Xincheng Port. If the cargo ships on the Europe-Northeast Asia route can be fully loaded, they do not need to berth at Xincheng Port for transshipment, and once Pujiang Port develops international transit business, Xincheng Port will inevitably be affected.

In addition, some flights from the Americas to Asia and Europe to Asia may also be adjusted, and the final arrival and departure ports will be Pujiang, which will also affect Xincheng Port.

In another time and space, even after the completion of the Yangshan deep-water port, Pujiang Port has not become an international transshipment port, and the international transshipment business accounts for no more than 10% of its total business volume, which is not large, and does not play a pivotal role in the international transshipment system, and does not threaten the status of the transshipment center of Xincheng Port.

In Bao Feiyang's view, Pujiang Port is not without the potential to develop international transshipment business, to develop international transshipment business, first of all, there must be a deep-water port, secondly, the port should be close to international routes, and then the port should have a large number of goods, as well as the port's loading and unloading costs are low, customs clearance speed is fast, and can provide a variety of high-quality services......

Yangshan Port is an excellent deep-water port, and close to international routes, cargo throughput is also very large, compared with the surrounding transshipment port Busan, Kaohsiung, Xingang and even Xincheng Port, the cost of loading and unloading is relatively low, after the construction of Pujiang Free Trade Zone, the service level and customs clearance speed has also improved very much, the only problem is that the construction progress of Yangshan deep-water port is too slow, did not meet expectations.

After Pujiang Port entered the stage of rapid development, a problem that has been plaguing Pujiang Port is that the port is too busy, Pujiang Port is not only the world's largest container port, but also the busiest port in the world, and even there has been a "port congestion", that is, the port berths are not enough, and the arriving cargo ships cannot enter the port, and they have to wait in line for docking and loading and unloading, resulting in many flight delays.

Although it is said that the port blockage and port congestion are emergencies, it is enough to show the busyness of Pujiang Port, and in the case of not much transit business, Pujiang Port is already busy to overload, of course, there is no room for the development of transit business.