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SZ terminal scores higher
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(Huang Naili, Zhang Zhiyong)
SHENZHEN Port handled a total of 3.993 million TEUs (twenty-feet equivalent unit) of containers for the year 2000, ranking the second in China's inland coastal ports after Shanghai whose throughput for last year is expected to exceed five million TEUs. SZ port's growth rate is over 33.8 per cent.
Officials from the Shenzhen Municipal Administration for Port Affairs said with this new record under its belt, Shenzhen may well edge itself into the list of the world's top 10 container ports for the year 2000. “Shenzhen became the world's 11th largest port for container handling at the end of 1999. Statistics for the performance of other world top ports last year are expected to be available in the first quarter of 2001. With Shenzhen Port's rapid growth in mind, we would like to predict that Shenzhen may have become one of the world's top 10 for 2000."
The same source also said that the Yantian International Container Terminals (YICT) contributed 2.146 million TEUs of the total while Shekou and Kaifeng, the other two major container terminals in the city, handled 727,000 and 450,000 TEUs respectively.
Fifteen internationl shipping liners for scheduled voyages were opened last year. So far 29 shipping companies are running 53 container liners through Shenzhen Port. Every month 227 international voyages park in Shenzhen Port.
The growth in throughput was attributed to the booming economy in the Pearl River Delta and the increasing foreign investment which all generate huge freight demand.
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