Pearl tributary Xijiang capacity can't cope with growth

THE development plan for the Xijiang River, the major waterway connecting southwestern China to the Pearl River Delta, involves adding 77 million tonnes to the cargo handling capacity of these river ports by 2012, bringing their total capacity to 100,000 tonnes.

The increase in capacity is expected to relieve the heavy traffic on the river in recent years, especially the congestion on the Wuzhou section in Guangxi where there's a multi-purpose hydraulic engineering project, Xinhua reported.

The Wuzhou Changzhou multi-purpose hydraulic engineering project has a throughput capacity of 40.12 million tonnes. But as China is putting more effort into the development of its western region, regional economic cooperation ties have become closer, and cargo volume has outgrown capacity, causing serious congestion, and becoming a bottleneck of an increasingly important waterway.
(Source:www.schednet.com)