※The famous prison of the port in Kaihai Province is very good, and the road line is to ask for it, Sanfu Port, Hengshan Port, Linshan Port, and so on, there are dozens of large and small ports, and it has always been a high-quality port for maritime trade. Recently, because of the development of the domestic economy and the needs of ocean trade, the government has been investing a lot in this area.

However, the amount of investment in port construction is only a relative figure, and in fact, the total amount invested in the construction of so many ports in Donghai Province is only a billion yuan. And after these billions are apportioned to many ports, it seems insignificant, that is, to do some sewing and mending.

After Boss Zhu personally called and communicated with Fan Wuxi, Fan Wuxian always didn't care about anything, so he nodded and promised to build another modern large-scale port in Donghai Province, which is no smaller than the current Jiangshan Port.

However, Fan Wuxian also expressed his need to rent a small island in the East China Sea.

"What are you renting an island for?" Boss Zhu asked a little puzzled.

"This is for entertaining friends, you know that many friends in the world have private island mansions or something, I am very casual here, it will not be respectful, so I also want to follow suit, and at the same time get a helicopter landing platform or something on the island, and build a dock for yachts, it is enough.

Fan Wuxian explained.

"Oh, that's the case," Boss Zhu said after a deep sigh, "The lease of the island is actually a local land policy, but if it is an island with little economic interest, and the local people have the actual needs of the ancestors, it is also okay." Specifically, if you talk to Wu Fukuan, just say I'll nod

"Oh, well, I'll give them an investment intention in the near future." Fan Wuxian also nodded in agreement.

Wu Fukuan was more anxious than Fan Wuxi. After hearing that Boss Zhu said that Fan Wuxian promised to land another port construction project in Donghai Province, he was anxious to see Fan Wuxian and discuss where to build a port and the scale of investment.

Shen Ying and her classmates hadn't seen each other for a long time, and they wanted to get together for a get-together, so Fan Wuxian got on a helicopter with Wu Fukuan, and then flew all the way over those ports in Donghai Province to conduct on-the-spot inspections, so as to choose a more suitable port as the target of construction.

The two of them chose the target, in addition to the on-the-spot inspection of the terrain, and the actual parameters of the local port as a reference, mainly to select a deep-water port with better malleability.

To put it simply, the water level in the sea level below 15 meters of the port can be called a deep-water port, the sixth generation of container ships and 10,000 container ships, its draft can reach at least 14 meters, if you want to enter the port for mooring, of course, the water depth of the channel and the front of the wharf water depth are required to be below the sea level of 15 meters.

If you want to exhibit container transportation in one port, you must have deep-water channels and deep-water berths. Now, the sixth line or large container ship is a cargo ship that can carry 7,000 to 8,000 TEUs is in operation for 6 consecutive years, so the construction of a deep-water port is very important.

For example, at present, Denmark's Maqijihai 6 shipping company alone has 24 container ships with 8,000 TEUs, and in the next five years, more than 120 container ships with more than 7,000 TEUs will be built in the world. Among them, there are at least 90 giant ships with 8,000 TEUs, and 9,600 TEU container ships built by Canada's Sezipan Company and chartered by China's Shipping Jiju Company will also appear on ocean routes in a few years.

As we all know, oil tankers, bulk carriers, dump general cargo ships, etc. are large because of their tonnage. The draft is deep, and you can't enter the port. It can unload the barge at sea outside the port, and the large-tonnage container ship can only be loaded and unloaded after entering the port and docking at the wharf, so the container ship needs a fixed wharf as a yard, and it needs to be fixed on the loading and unloading bridge on the wharf to load and unload containers, and it is impossible and not allowed to load and unload barge containers at sea outside the port.

If you load or unload containers at sea, it is easy to cause the ship to capsize and sink, or the container to fall into the sea

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Sixth-generation container ships and 10,000 container ships. Its draft is at least 14 meters, and if it is to enter the flood mooring. Of course, the water depth of the channel and the water depth of the pier front are required to be below 15 meters above sea level. A modern large-scale port, if there is no deep-water channel and deep-water berth, can not accept large container ships, can only be a feeder port, a supply port, can only provide supporting services for large deep-water ports.

At present, there are 19 deep-water ports below 15 meters below sea level in the world, such as the ports of Busan and Gwangyang in South Korea, the ports of Kaohsiung in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore, and the ports of Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe, Nagoya, and Brigade in Japan, and six more are under construction

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All in all, there are indeed not many ports that can provide such services, and this advantageous position ensures that the port's dominant position and stable income in international shipping will not be affected.

There is a conventional view in the transportation industry that the entry channel cannot reach 300,000 tons, and it is difficult for the port to dominate the national team no matter how big the port is.

Although Donghai Province has a number of high-quality seaports, the deep-water port is currently only under construction in Jiangrang, and now it is finally ushering in another major opportunity. Once the cooperation project between Fan's Investment Group and Donghai Province is implemented, it means that Donghai Province will have a second deep-water port, and the long-term problems of Donghai Province and even the entire southeast coastal shipping exhibition will no longer exist, with two large-scale modern deep-water ports, Donghai Province will enter the main camp of national shipping and even the whole world shipping port.

It is not uncommon for anyone to consider the construction of a port in Donghai Province before this, but the construction of the port here has lagged behind for a long time, and one important reason is that the coastal conditions are relatively complex, and it has always been regarded as a forbidden area for the construction of deep-water ports. In the past 50 years, only 5,000-ton ships could enter and exit, and the most 10,000-ton ships could enter and exit by tide, but it was not until recent years, after the continuous improvement of construction technology, that there was a port for 150,000-ton cargo ships.

And the construction project of Jiangshan Port. It is a breakthrough in upgrading the waterway from 150,000 tons to 300,000 tons, which is not only a technical problem but also an understanding problem for the port construction of Donghai Province. For this reason, the relevant parties have conducted a long period of research. Carried out port sea area survey and accumulated a large amount of marine data, which can be regarded as the first 300,000-ton deep-water port in Donghai Province.

"If we have a second deep-water port terminal, then the economy of the entire Donghai Province will benefit from this, and it will increase by at least ten percentage points on the existing basis." Wu Fukuan said to Fan Wuxian.

Fan Wuxi looked down from the porthole. At this time, it was hovering over the port of Hengshan, and from the air, the port of Hengshan was finally built into a deep-water port, and there was an in-depth report on the TV news.

He vaguely remembers that this is also a rare deep-water port on the southeast coast, and in order to determine this project, the project team did a lot of work, and invited marine experts and port engineering experts from all over the country to consult on the construction conditions of Hengshan Port. Finally, it was determined that the seabed of Hengshan Port was mainly silt, and after full demonstration, the conclusion that a 300,000-ton waterway could be built was given.

But at this time, Wu Fukuan said that the deep-water port wharf did not dare to use his brains on the 300,000-ton channel, he thought that with the current information, it would be good to be able to build a 150,000-ton wharf, at least to share the shipping pressure of Jiangshan Port, but he did not expect that Fan Wuxi had already begun to prepare to make a concession. The port has become a major port larger than Jiangshan Port.

Therefore, when Fan Wuxian indifferently said that a waterway of more than 300,000 tons would be built here, Wu Fukuan and the port engineering experts who came with him randomly were a little dumbfounded.

"Mr. Fan" An expert felt the need to remind Fan Wuzhi to save him from not figuring out the situation, "Although Hengshan Port is also a high-quality seaport, the water level cannot meet the requirements of a 300,000-ton deep-water port. After all, due to the limitations of natural conditions, it is difficult for us to make a difference. ”

Everyone present basically agreed in this way, and even Wu Fukuan said, "Of course, it is good to see a deep-water port with a larger regulation; I also hope that the more investment Mr. Fan makes, the better, but we also have to pay attention to practical results and fully respect the opinions of experts. ”

Fan Wuxian naturally has a different view on this, "natural conditions are of course very important, but if we only want to rely on natural conditions, many things can't be done, although the water level here in Hengshan Port is lacking, it can be transformed, and the investment will not be very large, so what I mean is to open according to the scale of more than 300,000 tons, deepen and widen the seabed, and artificially create a high-quality modern deep-water port." ”

Everyone was dumbfounded, Mr. Fan of the heart is really open-mouthed, do you really think that underwater operations are such a simple thing? That's working at a depth of more than ten meters! It's not about digging a few in your yard. It's that simple!

In fact, Fan Wuxi's idea of wanting to build a large-scale deep-water port is still understandable.

Taking the port of Shanghai as an example, since the late 19th century, Shanghai has relied on the Huangpu River and the convenience of connecting the river to the sea, and the shipping routes have radiated to the Yangtze River, the Sea and even Southeast Asia. By the thirties of the twentieth century, the annual cargo volume of Shanghai Port had reached 14 million tons, which was the seventh largest in the world at that time, and the largest in Asia and Zhejiang. It became a very well-known economic, trade and financial center of the Far East at that time.

The biggest feature of Shanghai is that it is located in the middle of China's north and south, the confluence of rivers and seas, and the north and south are the coastline of China. Shanghai basically has a middle school in the middle, and it can echo from north to south. Externally, it is also the most convenient transportation. There is also the confluence of the river and the sea, that is, the Yangtze River, which is the longest river in China and the most accessible area in the basin, this river and the sea meet in Wuhongkou, Shanghai, so Shanghai is in such a favorable position.

After the reform and opening up, the articles in the Huangpu River made the exhibition in Shanghai dizzying, and after decades of exhibition, the Yellow Sea Port became the largest port in China and one of the world's famous ports.

However, the estuary is easy to make a fuss, and the limit is also in the estuary, and the water depth of the Huangpu River is about seven meters, which is an insurmountable hurdle.

The water depth of the Huangpu River is always limited, so when there are few ships and the tonnage of the ship is relatively small, there is no problem with the shoreline of the Huangpu River, and when the tonnage of the ship is large, there will be problems, and it cannot enter the Huangpu River at low tide, and the water depth is not enough.

Since the nineties, container shipping has become the mainstream of the international maritime industry exhibition, and ocean shipping ships are becoming larger and larger. The mainstream models are already large container ships with a draft of 13 to 15 meters.

In order to adapt to this change. The Port of Shanghai has also accelerated the construction of a dedicated container terminal, but the newly built Waigaoqiao Terminal still restricts the development of the port due to the limitation of the water depth of the Yangtze River channel.

Because it only has a draft of ten meters, but the largest ships need at least thirteen to fourteen meters of water, they have to wait for the tide to enter, and the tide comes every eight hours, and when the tide rises, all the boats crowd in, and they are all here waiting to be loaded and unloaded before going out.

At the same time, some large ports in Northeast Asia have invested heavily in the construction of deep-water berths for container ports, Busan in South Korea has proposed to build a central port around the Pacific in the 21 st century, and Kobe in Japan has proposed to build a home port in Asia. This has put tremendous pressure on the port of Shanghai.

Both Koreans and Japanese want the port of Shanghai to become their feeder, and the Koreans regard Busan and Gwangyang ports as the center of world shipping, and the ports of Shanghai and Qingdao in China as their feeding ports or feeder ports.

Some large shipping companies mainly call at hub ports, and whoever has the status of a hub port occupies the commanding heights of the shipping center. More than 85 percent of the weight of goods in the middle of international trade is transported by sea, so if a shipping center dominated by sea cannot become a hub port, it means that it can not take the initiative in international competition.

Although the throughput of Shanghai Port is about to become the world's first, it is limited by hardware conditions such as the number of berths and water depth. The gap between Shanghai Port and Hong Kong and Singapore has not shrunk significantly, all the terminals in Shanghai are loaded, the increment is not at all, and the capacity is gone, so it is impossible to grow, which has a great impact on the entire Yangtze River Delta and the country's entire economic exhibition, as well as international competitiveness. The difficulties are great.

Therefore, everyone can understand Fan Wuji's mood very well, but Hengshan Port wants to become a large-scale deep-water port, especially the scale of building a waterway of more than 300,000 tons, which is congenitally insufficient!