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A GROUNDBREAKING ceremony has been held by Hong Kong's Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH) and Huizhou Port Affairs Group Company Limited to mark the start of construction of two 50,000-tonne container berths for the new Huizhou Quanwan International Container Terminals (HQCT).
Scheduled to open in 2010, the new terminal is on the eastern side of China's Pearl River Delta in the Quanwan Port Zone of the Daya Bay Economic and Technological Development Zone in Guangdong province.
With an area of 60 square hectares, the design of HQCT calls for the facility to have a total berth length of 800 metres and a depth alongside of 15.2 metres.
Upon completion, HQCT will help transform Huizhou Port from a container feeder port and a terminal handling bulk cargo and non-containerised goods into one of south China's leading container ports, a statement from HPH said.
An expressway network and two major railway arteries, namely the Beijing-Kowloon and Guangzhou-Meizhou-Shantou lines, will connect HQCT to the Pearl River Delta and the manufacturing hinterlands along the railways. This road and rail network is intended to facilitate the transportation of cargo to HQCT for shipment overseas via feeder and long-haul services.
James Tsien, managing director of Hutchison Ports China, said at the groundbreaking ceremony attended by 400 guests from the municipal government, local enterprises, port and shipping industries: HQCT will be the first dedicated container terminal in Huizhou Port and is one of the largest investment projects for HPH since we began participating in the development of Huizhou Port in 2005.
Huizhou Port possesses excellent natural deep-water conditions and is located within close proximity to the well-developed manufacturing hinterland of eastern Guangdong. With our global experience in port development, operations and management, and terminal management systems, we are committed to developing Huizhou Port into a major international port in eastern Guangdong.
Source: Schednet
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