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The harbour container ocean main lines of Ningbo tops 50
Date:2006-06-06   Hit:1987
 
Next only to Shanghai Harbor and Shenzhen Harbor in the mainland China, Ningbo port occupy the third place. All the container liner companies that ranks the top 20 in the world beach in the harbour of Ningbo at present. The reporter learnt from Ningbo Harbour Corporation (Group) Ltd., yesterday, by July 31, the harbour container ocean main lines of Ningbo have already topped 50, second only to the harbour of Shanghai Harbor and Shenzhen at the ports of mainland China, Ningbo port occupies the third place.
The past 5 years, foreign trade total import and export value of our province increase 21% year on average, and Ningbo city foreign trade keep lasting momentum of growth too in recent years. Ningbo’ hinterland where economy is developed have offered the rich foundation of source of goods for harbour containerized transport.  Since 1999, the increasing rate of harbour containerized transport in Ningbo has occupied in succession the first in main container ports of mainland of our country for 6 years. The containerized transport of Ningbo Port continues keeping the high-speed growth this year, the throughput estimates that can exceed 36,000,000 standard containers in the whole year.
While devoting more efforts to taking on the goods, the Ningbo Port develops the container lines in a more cost-effective manner. Since the beginning of this year, they have continued insisting on regarding developing the ocean main lines as the focal point, form benign cycle on " main line promote branch line, the branch line urges the main line ". Especially since entering July, Mitsui merchant ship , Janpan mail ship, Chuanqi steamer and Zhongyuan 5 world-famous ship Company of transporting etc. jointly open up the course of Australia, the shippings of Ma ShiJi and the Mediterranean have opened the European course and American course of west coast separately, make the transportation of  Ningbo Port in the three main trade zones of the world enhance further.
The opening up constantly of ocean main line makes the course structure of Ningbo Port optimize further. There are 110 courses of container altogether in Ningbo Port at present, 50 main lines of ocean among them, arterial proportion up to 46%, its monthly flight at the same time exceed 480 class, form a transporting network covering the whole world.
At present, there are 7 container berths that has already come into operation in the Ningbo Port, the total length of the berth is 2138 meters, front water depth of quay 13.5 to 15 meter, allocate 22 domestic advanced full-length container load and unload the bridge crane, can unload the sixth generation of the above advanced container ship in the world at present. Good port resources have attracted the Chinese and foreign ship companies. The container liner companies that ranked the top 20 the whole world has already all beached in Ningbo Port at present.