Ministry of Transport: The overall scale of my country's water transport infrastructure remains first in the world

Cover news reporter Su Yu

On August 25, the Ministry of Transport held a regular press conference to introduce the construction of water transportation planning. Su Jie, deputy director of the Comprehensive Planning Department of the Ministry of Transport, said at the meeting that the overall scale of my country's water transport infrastructure remained first in the world. By the end of 2021, there were 20,867 berths in the nationwide port, 2,659 berths of 10,000 tons and above, and a mileage of 128,000 kilometers in the inland channel, of which more than 16,000 kilometers of high -level channels.

Press conference site of the Ministry of Transportation

Su Jie introduced that the current water transport planning system is continuously improved, and the research on the national port and channel layout plan is actively carried out, and the top -level design of the development of water transportation facilities in the country is planned. Implement the strategic requirements of major national regional regional regional regional regions, and compile special planning such as the planning and implementation of coastal cruise port layout planning and the planning planning planning planning planning of the Qiongzhou Strait Passenger Transport Port. Implement the national five -year planning and comprehensive transportation five -year planning relevant requirements, print the implementation of the "13th Five -Year Plan" and "Fourteenth Five -Year Plan" development plan and supporting documents, and establish a "5 -year planning library, 3 -year scroll library, 1 year plan library library "Major project library rolling implementation mechanism.

"Among the top 10 ports of cargo throughput and container throughput, my country occupies 8 and 7 seats, respectively. It is said that the cargo volume of the Yangtze River trunk line exceeds 3 billion tons, ranking first in the world's inland shipping. Water transportation has undertaken a large number of cross -regional cargo transportation and about 95%of foreign trade materials transportation. Especially since the epidemic occurs, the waterway transportation channel has always remained unobstructed and transported smoothly and orderly. The increase of 6.8%, ensuring that "exported goods are available, imported goods get in."

He revealed that water transport has promoted the optimization of my country's coastal industry layout along the coast, driving the industrial transfer to the central and western regions, and played an important supporting role in the implementation of the Beijing -Tianjin -Hebei coordinated development, the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, and the construction of the Guangdong -Hong Kong -Macao Greater Bay Area. Essence my country is the country with the highest degree of connectivity in the world, and its hub status in the global shipping and logistics system has been continuously improved. The large -scale and uninterrupted water transport system has effectively guaranteed my country to become the world's second largest economy and the world's largest cargo trading country.

In addition, after years of construction and development, my country's coastal professional terminal loading and unloading efficiency, and the completion of the container throughput of the 100 -meter shoreline is at the world's leading level. The Xiamen Yuanhai, Qingdao Qianwan fully automated container terminal, as well as the largest global Shanghai Yangshan Phase IV fully automated container pier with the largest world, the most advanced equipment, and independent intellectual property rights. Smart port technology represented by the "Production Management System (TOS System)" and "Equipment Control System (ECS System)" has been accelerated and applied to the intelligent development of global ports.

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