.※The famous ports in Kaihai Province are very popular, including Sanfu Port, Hengshan Port, Linshan Port, and dozens of such large and small ports, which have always been high-quality ports for maritime trade. Recently, the government has invested a lot in this regard due to the domestic economic development and the need for ocean trade.

However, the investment in port construction is only a relatively large number. In fact, the total investment invested in the construction of so many ports in Donghai Province is only more than one billion. And after these more than one billion are distributed to many ports, it becomes insignificant, that is, some things to do to repair and repair.

After Boss Zhu called Fan Wubing to communicate with him personally, Fan Wubing was always embarrassed to take care of anything, so he nodded and promised to build another modern large port in Donghai Province, which is no smaller than the current Jiangshan Port.

However, Fan Wubing also expressed his needs and wanted to rent a small island in the East China Sea.

"What are you doing for renting a small island?" Boss Zhu asked in confusion.

"This is for entertaining friends. You know that many friends in the world have private island mansions and other things. I am here to entertain others casually, which makes me feel disrespectful enough, so I also want to follow my example. At the same time, I set up a helicopter take-off and landing platform on the island and build a dock for yachts to dock. It is enough.

Fan Wubing explained.

"Oh, that's it." Boss Zhu said after pondering for a while, "Island rental is actually a local local policy. However, if it is an island with little economic benefits and the local area has the actual needs of ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral ancestral urn.

"Oh, okay, I will set my investment intentions with them in the near future." Fan Wubing also nodded and agreed.

Wu Fukuan was more anxious than Fan Wubing. After hearing Boss Zhu’s statement that Fan Wubing promised to launch another port construction project in Donghai Province, he was anxious to see Fan Wubing and discuss where to build a port and the scale of investment.

Shen Ying and his classmates haven't seen each other for a long time and want to get together. So Fan Wubing and Wu Fukuan got on a helicopter, and then flew over the ports in Donghai Province to conduct on-site inspections in order to select a more suitable port as the goal of construction.

The two of them chose the target, in addition to the on-site inspection of the terrain, there were also the actual parameters of the local port as reference materials, mainly to select a deep-water port with better expansion.

Simply put, ports with a water level below fifteen meters can be called deep-water ports. The sixth-generation container ship and 10,000-box ship can have a draft of at least fourteen meters. If you want to enter the port to moor, of course, it is required that the water depth of the channel and the water depth at the front of the dock are below fifteen meters above sea level.

If container transportation is to be carried out at a port, there must be deep water channels and deep water berths. Especially since it becomes a hub port for container transportation, deep water channels and deep water berths are even more needed. Now, the sixth row or large container ships are cargo ships that can carry 7,000 to 8,000 standard containers, which are being put into operation one after another, so it is very important to build deep water ports.

For example, the Denmark Maqiji Sea Land Shipping Company has 24 container ships with 8,000 TEUs. In the next five years, more than 120 container ships with more than 7,000 TEUs will be built around the world. Among them, there are at least 90 giant ships with 8,000 TEUs, built by Canadian Sespan Company. The container ships with 9,600 TEUs leased by China Shipping Corporation will also appear on the ocean route in a few years.

As we all know, oil tankers, bulk carriers, self-dumping grocery ships, etc. cannot enter the port because of their large tonnage and deep draft. They can unload and transport the containers on the sea outside the port. Large tonnage container ships can only carry out loading and unloading operations after entering the port by relying on the wharf. Therefore, container freighters need a fixed wharf as a yard, and even more need a loading and unloading bridge fixed on the wharf to load and unload containers. It is impossible to load and unload containers on the sea outside the port and are not allowed.

If the container is loaded and unloaded at sea, it is easy to cause the ship to capsize or the container falls into the sea.

Therefore.

The sixth generation container ship and 10,000 boxes of ships. The draft is at least 14 meters. If it wants to enter the flood mooring, of course, it is required that the water depth of the channel and the water depth at the front of the dock are below 15 meters. If a modern large port does not have deep water channels and deep water berths, it cannot accept large container ships. It can only be a branch port and a supply port, and can only provide supporting services for large deep water ports.

At present, there are 19 deep-water ports in the world below 15 meters below sea level, such as Busan Port and Kwangyang Port in South Korea, Kaohsiung Port in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo Port in Japan, Yokohama Port, Kobe Port, Nagoya Port and Battalion Port, etc. There are still six under construction under construction.

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

The transportation industry has a conventional view that the incoming waterway cannot reach the level of 300,000 tons, and no matter how large the port is, it is difficult to dominate the national team.

Although Donghai Province has multiple high-quality seaports, there is currently only one deep-water port under construction, Jiangran and port. Now it finally ushers in another major opportunity for development. Once the cooperation project between Fan Investment Group and Donghai Province is implemented, this means that Donghai Province will have a second deep-water port. The restrictions on shipping and shipping for a long time that have plagued Donghai Province and even the entire southeast coast will no longer exist. With two large modern deep-water ports, Donghai Province will enter the main camp of national shipping and even the entire world shipping port.

Before this, no one had considered building a port in Donghai Province, but the port construction here was relatively lagging behind for a long time. One important reason was that the coastal conditions were relatively complex and had always been regarded as a forbidden area for the construction of deep-water ports. In the past 50 years, it was possible to enter and exit 5,000 tons, and to enter and exit 10,000 tons by tide. It was not until recent years that the construction technology continued to improve, and there were ports for entering and leaving 150,000 tons of cargo ships.

The construction project of Jiangshan Port is a breakthrough in upgrading the waterway from 150,000 tons to 300,000 tons. It is both a technical problem and an understanding problem for the port construction in Donghai Province. For this reason, relevant parties have conducted long-term research. The port sea area survey has been carried out and a large amount of marine data has been accumulated, which has made Donghai Province the first deep-water port with a capacity of 300,000 tons.

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

Fan Wubing looked down from the porthole. At this time, he was hovering over Hengshan Port. From the air, Hengshan Port finally built a deep-water port, and there was also a special report on the TV news.

He vaguely remembered that this was also one of the few deep-water ports in the southeast coast. At that time, 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 the construction conditions of Hengshan Port. Finally, it was determined that the seabed of Hengshan Port was mainly silted. After sufficient demonstration, it was concluded that the 300,000-ton waterway could be built.

However, at this time, the deep-water port terminal that Wu Fukuan mentioned did not dare to think about it on the 300,000-ton channel. He thought that based on the current information, it would be good to build a 150,000-ton terminal, at least it could share the shipping pressure of Jiangshan Port. However, he did not expect that Fan Wubing had already begun to prepare to build the port into a major port larger than Jiangshan Port.

Therefore, when Fan Wubing calmly said that the waterway above 300,000 tons would be built here, Wu Fukuan and the port engineering experts who came randomly were a little stunned.

"Mr. Fan" An expert felt it was necessary to remind Fan Wubing for a while, so that he would not understand the situation. "Although Hengshan Port is also a high-quality seaport, the water level cannot meet the requirements of a deep-water port of 300,000 tons. Due to geographical conditions, if you want to build a waterway of 300,000 tons or above, you may not be able to do anything. After all, due to the limitations of natural conditions, it is difficult for us to do something."

Everyone present basically had this view. Even Wu Fukuan said, "It is of course good to see a larger-scale deep-water port; I also hope that Mr. Fan's investment will be better, but we must also pay attention to effectiveness and fully respect the opinions of experts. It seems that it is not enough to build a waterway of more than 300,000 tons in this place."

Fan Wubing naturally has different views on this. "Natural conditions are of course very important, but if we only think about relying on natural conditions, many things will not be done. Although the water level here in Hengshan Port is lacking, it can be transformed and the investment will not be large. So what I mean is to open it at a scale of more than 300,000 tons, expand the seabed, and artificially create a high-quality modern deep-water port."

Everyone was silent, thinking to myself, Mr. Fan, you are really talking nonsense. You really think that underwater operation is so simple? That is the work under the sea more than ten meters deep! It’s not as simple as digging a few vegetable cellars in your yard!

In fact, everyone still understands Fan Wubing’s idea of ​​building a large deep-water port.

Take Shanghai Port as an example. Since the late 19th century, Shanghai has relied on the convenience of connecting the Huangpu River and connecting the rivers to the sea, and its routes radiated to the Yangtze River, the sea and even Southeast Asia. By the 1930s, the annual freight volume of Shanghai Port had reached 14 million tons. This number was ranked seventh in the world at that time and was the leader in Asia and Zhejiang. The city of Shanghai became a very famous economic, trade and financial center in the Far East at that time with its shipping.

The biggest feature of Shanghai is that it is located in the north and south of China. The convergence of rivers and seas, and the convergence of rivers and seas is on China's coastline. Shanghai can basically echo from the middle to the north and south. Its transportation is also the most convenient. There is also the convergence of rivers and seas, which is the Yangtze River, which is the longest river in China and the most convergence of rivers and seas. This river meets the sea in Wuhongkou, Shanghai, so Shanghai is in such a favorable position.

After the reform and opening up, the articles in the Huangpu River made Shanghai's exhibitions dazzling. After decades of exhibitions, Huanghai Port has become the largest port in China and one of the world's famous ports.

However, it is easy to make a living in the estuary, and the limit is also within the estuary. The depth of the Huangpu River is about seven meters deep, 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 coastline of the Huangpu River. When the tonnage of the ship is large, problems will arise. It cannot enter the Huangpu River at a low tide level, and the water depth is not enough.

Since the 1990s, container transportation has become the mainstream of the international maritime industry exhibition, and ocean-going transport ships have become increasingly large. The mainstream models are large container ships with drafts ranging from 13 to 15 meters.

In order to adapt to this change, Shanghai Port has also accelerated the construction of container-specific wharfs, but the newly built Waigaoqiao wharf still restricted the port's development due to the limitations of the water depth of the Yangtze River waterway.

Because it only has a draft of ten meters, but the largest ship needs at least a depth of thirteen to fourteen meters, so it must wait for the tide to enter, and the tide comes every eight hours. When the tide rises, all the ships squeeze in. They are waiting for loading and unloading and then going out.

At the same time, some large ports in Northeast Asia have invested huge sums of money to build container port deep-water berths, Busan, South Korea proposed to build a 21st century Pacific Rim Central Port, and Kobe, Japan proposed to build an Asian home port. Although the terms are different, the focus is on competing for the only international container hub port in Northeast Asia. This puts huge pressure on Shanghai Port.

Whether Koreans or Japanese, they all hope that Shanghai Port will become their branch. Koreans even regard Busan and Guangyang Port as the center of world shipping, and use China's Shanghai Port and Qingdao Port as their feed port or branch port.

Some large shipping companies mainly dock at hub ports. Whoever has the status of hub ports will occupy the commanding heights of the shipping center. More than 85% 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 whether it can take the initiative in international competition.

Although Shanghai Port's throughput is about to become the world's number of berths, due to the limitations of hardware conditions such as the number of docks and water depth, the gap between Shanghai Port and the two major ports of Hong Kong and Singapore has not significantly narrowed. All docks in Shanghai are load-operated, with no increments or capacity at all, so it is impossible to grow again. This has a great impact on the entire Yangtze River Delta and the country's entire economic development, as well as international competitiveness. If the market is lost during the competition process, and the market share is to be regained, that is, it is very difficult.
Chapter completed!