[photopress:yangshandeepwaterport.jpg,full,alignright]In Shanghai the second phase of Yangshan Deep-Water Port, the country’s biggest port, has opened which is all part of the progress of Shanghai to becoming an international shipping centre.
Shanghai Mayor Han Zheng said at the opening ceremony that the throughput capacity of Shanghai Port was 20 million TEUs (20-foot equivalent units or one normal size container) this year, which is a record for Shanghai. Last year the port’s throughput was about 18.1 million TEUs.
Shanghai Port is the third largest container port in the world. Fist comes Singapore and then Hong Kong SAR and then Shanghai.
Yangshan port is on the East China Sea and is linked to the mainland by a 32.5-kilometre long bridge. It has a depth of 16 metres, double that of the city’s old ports. It needs that depth to be able to take the world’s largest container ships.
The second phase of Yangshan includes four berths on a 1.4 kilometre waterfront. Located to the west of the five-berth phase-I, it extends the port’s current waterfront to about 3 kilometres and has a designed handling capacity of 2.1 million TEUs annually.
Source: China Daily
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