By 2023, China's international shipping volume will account for nearly one third of the global shipping volume. The passage volume of ship locks such as the Three Gorges Hub on the Yangtze River, the Changzhou Hub on the Xijiang River and the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal will reach a new high, and the ability and level of international container transport services for key materials will be further improved.
This is the reporter learned from the main forum of 2024 China Navigation Day and the launch ceremony of the National Navigation Day activity week on the 11th. Today marks the 20th China Maritime Day, with the theme of "Smart Sailing for the Future".
The Forum also released the China Shipping Development Report 2023. The report shows that in 2023, China's water transport construction investment completed 201.57 billion yuan, an increase of 20.1%, a number of major projects accelerated, Xiaoyangshan North operation area container terminal project water and land in full swing, Pinglu canal project construction began; The combined volume of container hot metal in ports across the country completed 10.18 million TEU, an increase of 15.9%. A number of domestic high-quality tourist passenger routes have shown numerous highlights, and international cruise transport has fully resumed. The size of China's maritime fleet remains among the largest in the world, and major breakthroughs have been made in the design and construction of domestic LNG carriers and cruise ships. The country has built electronic waterway maps covering more than 5,700 kilometers of waterway mileage, and the Yangtze River trunk line electronic waterway map has achieved full coverage.
The automation degree of our port has also reached a high level. At present, the scale of automated container terminals built or under construction in China is in the forefront of the world, and it has mastered the key core technologies of the whole chain of design and construction, equipment manufacturing, system integration and operation management, and the overall application scale and technical level are in the forefront of the world.
