"With the sustained and rapid growth of China's economy, a labor force of 1.2 billion people and consumer market, China will inevitably become an important distribution center for the world's trade in goods, through the Pujiang Port throughput of goods, accounting for 20% of China's annual international trade ocean transport goods, if according to this trend of development, Pujiang Port future throughput of more than 20 million TEU, 30 million TEU is conceivable, and the time will not be too long......"

Bao Feiyang said, "The dredging of the Tianjiang channel has reached a water depth of 125 meters, the construction of Gaoqiao New Port and the transformation and expansion of other port areas, under the extreme circumstances, Pujiang Port can probably impact the annual throughput capacity of 20 million TEU, but it will be very difficult to continue to break through, after all, the demand for bulk cargo throughput of Pujiang Port is also very large, so what will Pujiang Port do at that time?

"There is another problem, according to the Tianjiang channel dredging plan, five years later, the water depth of the Tianjiang Estuary channel can reach 125 water depth, and there is no problem with the all-weather entry of the fourth-generation container ship, but the fifth-generation container ship has been put into use, and its cost advantage in ocean transportation determines that the fifth-generation container ship will inevitably become the mainstream in the future, and the channel with a water depth of 125 meters will not be able to guarantee the all-weather entry of the fifth-generation container ship, which ...... How is Pujiang Port planned?"

This time, the specifications of the forum are still relatively high, but Bao Feiyang, as the head of Huixun District, is still more eye-catching, even Qian Zaixiang will not ignore his existence, so when he saw Bao Feiyang raise his hand, he still asked him to ask questions.

Bao Feiyang was not polite, and directly threw out two key questions, in fact, a professor from Ocean University had already raised a question just now.

Pujiang City wants to build an international shipping center, the problem of deep-water port has always existed, for the construction plan of Pujiang Port, there has been a debate, one of them believes that the Tianjiang River channel should be dredged, so that the Tianjiang Estuary channel can reach a water depth of more than 10 meters, so that the current Chunshan port area, Gaoqiao port area and so on can become a deep-water port.

In the past, this plan was the mainstream or even the only option, so the dredging plan for the Tianjiang waterway was finalized a few years ago and officially began to be implemented. However, at that time, the cargo throughput of Pujiang Port was only tens of millions of tons, and the container was only hundreds of thousands of TEUs per year.

However, in general, the Tianjiang waterway dredging program has received more support, from Pujiang City, Chundong New District, Chunshan District and other districts and counties along the Tianjiang and Chunjiang rivers hope to dredge the Tianjiang waterway, so that the original port located in the Chunjiang and Tianjiang rivers become deep-water ports, this plan can not only make the existing port area of Pujiang Port continue to maintain competitiveness, but also continue the industrial development and economic pattern of the relevant districts and counties, not only the counties and districts hope this, the city also hopes that the jurisdiction to maintain the vitality of development.

In addition, the provinces along the Tianjiang River, especially Jiangnan and Jiangbei provinces in the lower reaches of the Tianjiang River, also support this plan, because the dredging of the Tianjiang waterway will also benefit the ports of cities along the river in these provinces, and this will naturally affect the country's decision-making.

Of course, there is also some support for the deep-water port on the outlying islands, because the limitation of dredging the Tianjiang channel is obvious, that is, after dredging, the channel needs to be maintained every year, otherwise the channel will still be deepened due to sediment deposits. In fact, according to Bao Feiyang's understanding, due to the problem of sediment accumulation, it was difficult for the dredging of the Tianjiang channel to achieve the expected goals, and it was not until the soil and water conservation projects in the middle and upper reaches of the Tianjiang River achieved certain results that the dredging of the waterway was carried out smoothly.

The advantage of the deep-water port on the outlying island is that after the completion of the port, the port will have a deep-water channel with a water depth of more than 15 meters, whether it is the fourth generation, or the fifth generation, or even the sixth generation of container ships can enter the port around the clock, without the need to carry out channel dredging, do not need to take advantage of the tide to enter the port, the channel advantage is very obvious.

However, the disadvantages of the outlying deep-water port are also obvious, one is that the construction cost is higher, although the amount of dredging of the channel is huge, but compared with the construction of the deep-water port and the cross-sea bridge on the outlying island, the construction cost of the latter is still much higher.

The second is that there are many restrictions on the port area of the deep-water port on the outlying islands, and the port area and storage yard area are limited, not to mention the land for the development of port industries. In this way, the port industry can only be arranged on the mainland, and the deep-water port is connected by a cross-sea bridge, and the cost of transportation will also increase.

Both options have their own advantages and disadvantages, which is also due to the natural limitations of Pujiang City's geographical conditions, the lack of natural deep-water port and shoreline resources, and the only way to do this is by dredging the waterway or building a deep-water port on the outlying islands. Although the neighboring Ningcheng has good port resources, some people believe that a deep-water port should be built in Ningcheng, but the economic strength of Ningcheng is quite different from Pujiang City, and the construction of a port in Ningcheng, even in terms of transportation efficiency, is not much worse than the deep-water port plan, but to build a shipping center can only be Pujiang, not Ningcheng.

Hou Ronghua smiled and said, " The logistics growth prospects of Pujiang Port, our port group has also made a prediction, and established a model, Pujiang Port's container throughput exceeded 20 million TEU, or even 30 million TEU, it is possible, Pujiang Port is now 4 million TEU throughput, ten years quadruple, to 16 million TEU, and even impact 20 million TEU is possible, and according to our planning, after the Tianjiang channel has been dredged and deepened, the expansion of the original port area and the construction of the new port area can reach the throughput capacity of 20 million TEU……”

Hou Ronghua said, "Of course, if Pujiang Port continues to maintain a rapid growth trend, with a container throughput of more than 20 million TEU and an impact of 30 million TEU, then in five or six years, we can also start the construction plan of the new port area, such as the construction plan of Tianjiangzui Port in Huixun District, or the transformation of the bulk cargo terminal, and disperse part of the bulk cargo throughput to the ports of Ningcheng and Tongcheng, of course, if necessary, we can also continue to study the construction plan of the deep-water port on the outlying islands......"

The dispute over the Pujiang port construction plan has been a long time, Hou Ronghua is naturally prepared for this, he smiled and said, "As for the problem of the fifth and sixth generations of container ships, for the time being, ocean container transportation is still dominated by fourth-generation container ships, and the cost of fifth-generation and sixth-generation ships is very high, and it cannot completely replace the third- and fourth-generation container ocean-going ships in a short period of time." After the dredging of the Tianjiang channel, it is possible to allow the fourth-generation container ships to enter the port around the clock, as well as the fifth-generation and sixth-generation container ships to enter the port while the tide is in place. Huayuan Group and other shipping giants have communicated, they will cooperate with the construction progress of Pujiang Port, arrange the corresponding container ship flights, and in the tide into the port, Pujiang Port is experienced, after all, the channel conditions of Pujiang Port has not been very ideal, now the fourth generation of container ships need to take advantage of the tide to enter the port, and under our organization and management, the efficiency of operation is still considerable, in the future we are also confident to solve the problem of five generations and six generations of container ships taking advantage of the tide to enter the port......"

"Of course, we will continue to study the possibility of dredging and deepening the Tianjiang channel, and strive to make the Tianjiang channel reach a water depth of 15 meters or even larger, and realize the all-weather entry and exit ...... of fifth- and sixth-generation container ships as soon as possible."

It should be said that Hou Ronghua's explanation is very in place, reasonable, and all aspects have been taken into account, and the feasibility of the plan is very high and convincing.

However, before Bao Feiyang raised his objection, a professor from Pujiang Ocean University raised his hand and said, "As we all know, the sediment content of Tianjiang River water is relatively large, and there is a trend of increasing year by year, and the dredging project of Tianjiangkou channel is not only dredging this section of the channel from Chunshan to the open sea, maybe from the current 7 meters deep to 8 meters is nothing, but to 9 meters, When 10 meters or even deeper, we must consider dredging upstream and both sides, otherwise the siltation of the channel will be very fast, that is to say, if the water depth of the Tianjiang Estuary channel is to reach 135 meters of water depth, then the length of the channel may reach more than three times, the width of more than five times, although in the short term, the depth of the dredging is invested year by year, the financial pressure is relatively small, but in the long run, the depth of the dredging must be invested every year, and the investment is likely to increase year by year, even after the completion of the depth of 135 meters of water, to maintain the channel, annual dredging maintenance is also essential, time-consuming, labor, money, ......"

The professor is obviously not optimistic about the plan to dredge the Tianjiang waterway, and he continued: "Large ocean-going freighters have obvious advantages in ocean-going transportation, and they have more advantages in terms of cost, management, labor, and even safety and timeliness. Therefore, the fifth-generation ships and sixth-generation ships will soon become the main force in ocean transportation, not to mention the trouble of entering the port while the tide is not to mention, it will also delay the time for cargo ships to enter the port, and time is the benefit, which is the cost, which will virtually weaken the competitiveness of Pujiang Port. ”

The professor continued, "The conditions of Pujiang Port are indeed unique, with a very strong hinterland, but we should not forget that the port conditions of Qindao Port in the north of Pujiang Port and Ningcheng Port in the south are better than those of Pujiang Port, even if they do not affect the status of Pujiang Port hub port, but the advantage of direct berthing is enough for some fifth-generation ships to choose Qindao and Ningcheng for berthing and distribution, so as to give up berthing in Pujiang." Some fifth- and sixth-generation ships may even choose to transship in major transshipment ports such as Xingang, Kaohsiung, and Busan, so as to avoid delays in Pujiang Port......"

"Of course, Pujiang Port relies on the mainland, especially the fast-growing Tianjiang Economic Belt, with sufficient cargo throughput demand, as long as there is such demand, there will be no shortage of cargo flights, but if it is limited by port conditions, affecting the berthing of fifth-generation ships and sixth-generation ships, it will undoubtedly affect the system of the entire Pujiang Port transportation system, reduce the opportunity for Pujiang Port to become the first port, the first port of call, and the final port, so that the quality of Pujiang Port as a shipping center will be weakened......"

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