Li Xianguo smiled and nodded: "Actually, in the port area, Tan Ma Xi has more rich investment and operation experience, including the port industry, which is also the focus of our investment in Ma Xi." ”

Li Xianguo said: "We have inspected Chunshan Port, Gaoqiao Port, and Gaoqiao East Port Area before, and we have also inspected Zhoushan Port in Ningcheng, Haizhou Port in Jiangbei, Minzhou Port and Kinmen Port in Fujian Province......

Li Xianguo smiled and said: "Originally, during this time, I was going to visit Mayor Yang to report the results of our inspection of Gaoqiao New Port, and we are willing to cooperate with Gaoqiao Port Company to invest in the construction of Gaoqiao New Port." Not only that, but we also hope to participate in the investment and construction of the Lingang industry in Xingang District, involving many industrial projects such as petrochemical, machinery, electronics, etc., so as to build the Lingang Industrial Park in Xingang into a model of China-Singapore cooperation......"

Li Xianguo said and turned his head to look at Bao Feiyang: "We have just heard about the outlying island deep-water port plan proposed by Huixun District, this plan is very imaginative, and the concept is very grand, but with our experience in port operation, there are many flaws and uncertainties in this plan, and it is very difficult to implement!"

Bao Feiyang smiled, he was not surprised by Li Xianguo's attitude. If Pujiang Port is an international transshipment port, the most damaged is Xingang, followed by Xincheng.

At present, Xingang and Xincheng are the world's first and second largest container ports, respectively. In the past ten years, in terms of container throughput, Xingang has won the first place in seven years, Xincheng has won the first place in three years, and the other party has been second in the corresponding years. The situation of the third and fourth largest ports is similar to the first and second, in 89 and 90 years are the third in the Port of Rotterdam, the fourth in the Port of Kaohsiung, the third in the Port of Kaohsiung in 91 years, the fourth in the Port of Rotterdam, and the Port of Rotterdam in 92 years returned to the third, but since then, the Port of Rotterdam has no chance with the third, from 93 to 98, the Port of Kaohsiung is the third, the Port of Rotterdam is the fourth, but this year the fourth position of Rotterdam is estimated to be snatched away by the Port of Busan.

Last year, Pujiang Port ranked 10th among the top 10 ports, with an annual throughput of only 3.06 million TEUs. The throughput of Xincheng Port, which ranked first, reached 15.09 million TEUs, and the throughput of Xingang Port reached 14.58 million TEUs. Affected by the financial crisis, the throughput of Xingang in '98 increased by 80,000 boxes compared with that in '97, and Xincheng increased by nearly 1 million boxes over the previous year, which surpassed Xingang and won the title of the world's largest port again after many years.

Xingang and Xincheng are famous for their free ports, but the economic hinterland of these two places is limited, and the cargo throughput of Xingang mainly comes from China, that is, it is mainly used for the transshipment of goods in the mainland.

The development of Xingang Port can be said to have developed along with the reform and development of China. With the development of coastal ports in the mainland, the new port is bound to be affected. Although from the current point of view, because Xingang is a free port, the port conditions are also relatively good, except for the impact of the financial crisis last year, it has still maintained rapid growth in recent years. However, with the development of Pujiang Port, Shencheng Port and Yangcheng Port, the impact of Xingang will be greater and greater. At most, five or six years later, Xingang will be surpassed by Xincheng Port, losing the position of the first largest port, and then being surpassed by Pujiang Port and reduced to the third largest port, and the gap between the first two is getting wider and wider.

Xingang and Xincheng are both engaged in international cargo transshipment, Xingang can even be said to be the import and export goods transshipment of China, and most of the goods handled by Xingang Port are related to the mainland. After the return of Xingang, generally speaking, Xingang is classified into the type of hinterland port, because about 70% of the goods in Xingang are related to the mainland, plus Xingang's local goods, the proportion of its international transshipment goods has been less than 30%.

In contrast, Xincheng Port is still the most important international transshipment port in Southeast Asia, and most of the goods of Southeast Asian countries are transshipped in Xincheng Port, because the hinterland of any country in the region is not enough to support a hub port alone like Huaguo.

In addition, cargo ships from East Asia and Northeast Asia to South Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Europe will also stop in Xincheng, and there will inevitably be a large number of transshipment cargoes. For example, some ocean-going freighters to Europe are not always fully loaded, they can carry some Southeast Asian cargo, and after arriving in the new city, the cargo will be unloaded and then filled with cargo to Europe......

In the past, due to the limitation of the water depth of the channel, some large ships could only take advantage of the tide to enter the Tianjiang channel and berth at Chunshan and Gaoqiao ports, and could not enter the port around the clock. Therefore, the international transit cargo volume of Pujiang Port is very small, accounting for no more than 5% of the total throughput, which can be described as very limited.

The construction of the deep-water port on the outlying islands of Pujiang will completely break the limitation of the water depth of the channel, and has the channel conditions comparable to those of the new port and the new city, and can berth the sixth-generation container ships around the clock, and the potential is still great. Basically, as long as the cargo ships of Xingang and Xincheng can berth, the deep-water port on the outlying island also has all-weather berthing conditions.

In addition, the deep-water port of the outlying islands is also closer to the main international shipping lane.

In this way, many large ships can directly berth at Pujiang Port, and then depart from Pujiang Port after being fully loaded, without needing to go to Xingang and Xincheng Port to replenish goods. When more regional flights and trunk flights dock at Pujiang Port, large ships will have a greater chance to fill the cargo of the destination port in Pujiang Port, and there is no need to unload and replenish the cargo at Xingang and Xincheng Port. In extreme cases, Pujiang Port relies on hinterland resources to eat up all the international transshipment business in Northeast Asia, and also eats up the demand for transshipment of flights through Pujiang Port to Xingang and Xincheng, so that they will only simply berth at Xincheng Port.

Losing this part of the business will be a very big blow to Xincheng Port, you must know that the cargo throughput of Northeast Asian ports accounts for more than one-third of the total port throughput in the world. If it is said that the loss of this part of the transshipment business itself is already an unbearable burden for Xincheng, then because of the loss of this part of the business, the cargo throughput of Xincheng Port has declined, and it is impossible to ensure that the transit cargo ship can be fully loaded, which is the fundamental blow to Xincheng Port as an international transshipment port, and it is the bottom of the kettle.

Therefore, Xincheng must not want to see Pujiang Port develop international transit business. In the past, the construction of Yangshan Port was actually disturbed by a lot of external interference, including resistance from the new city.

Zhao Genzheng also warned Bao Feiyang that the construction of the deep-water port on the outlying islands will not only affect the changes in the domestic pattern, but also affect the impact of international relations. However, he was still a little surprised, he didn't expect this effect to come out so quickly.

Without waiting for Bao Feiyang to speak, Li Xianguo had already opened his mouth and continued: "District Chief Bao, I don't know much about the specific details of your plan, but I have a question I would like to ask, that is, after the completion of the deep-water port on the outlying islands, what will happen to the current Gaoqiao port area and Chunshan port area? Are you going to put all the ocean-going flights in the deep-water port of the outlying islands, and there will only be short-sea routes in the Gaoqiao and Chunshan port areas, or will you continue to keep some of the ocean-going flights? From Gaoqiao Port to the sea off Tianjiangkou, the average cargo ship has to sail for five to six hours, and the transshipment between ports is not convenient!"

Bao Feiyang glanced at Li Xianguo, after the completion of the deep-water port on the outlying islands, the relationship with the existing port area is indeed quite sensitive. Although it is said that the deep-water port of the outlying island is definitely developing ocean transportation, the goods transported by ocean are transported by freighters of regional flights and sent to the hub port for centralization.

Like passenger ships, freighters also have sailing, which are scheduled departures. It is impossible to say that you will wait until it is full to go, whether it is a mainline or a regional flight, there are departures.

If it is said that ocean-going flights all dock at the deep-water ports of the outlying islands and are loaded and unloaded on the outlying islands, then will a large number of regional flights also go to the outlying islands to unload their cargo and then directly load them onto the freighters of the mainline flights? Theoretically, this is also possible, but for the Chunshan Port and Gaoqiao Port Area, they will lose a lot of ocean-going business.

In addition, there is another problem, the offshore and near-sea business are placed in different port areas, which is a common practice in many ports. However, the distance between the port areas of these ports is usually not very far, as in the case of the Chunshan Port and Takahashi Port areas in the past. Regional flights usually choose to dock directly at a certain port area, unload all the goods on board, and then fill the return cargo, so that the berthing time will be shorter, both in terms of efficiency and cost, will be more cost-effective.

As for whether the goods sent by these regional flights are transferred by land transportation or sent to other freighters, they will be transferred through the port. The port will concentrate the goods sent from different places and different regional flights, and then send them to different freighters, or send them to freight trains and trucks to transport them.

In the past, it was more convenient to transfer between Chunshan Port and Gaoqiao Port through the "shuttle bus" on the water, after all, the two port areas were relatively close to each other, and the freighters docked were also different. Gaoqiao Port mainly berths container ships, oil tankers, and ro-ro freighters, and Chunshan Port mainly berths bulk carriers.

However, the deep-water port on the outlying islands is different, and the deep-water port on the outlying islands must be mainly berthing for container ships, and there is direct competition with the Gaoqiao port area. If the ocean-going cargo ships dock separately, they will not be able to form a joint force, and if they pass through the transshipment between port areas, the voyage of five or six hours, plus the waiting time for unloading, loading and berthing in the middle, is very uneconomical in terms of cost and efficiency.

If all containers and ocean-going vessels are concentrated in the deep-water port on the outlying islands, this is undoubtedly the most efficient and the most capable solution for the role of the deep-water port, but in this way, it will inevitably greatly weaken the business of Gaoqiao Port. In contrast, the Chunshan port area is relatively small because it is dominated by bulk cargo.