Country : ChinaDaLian worldport

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Established in 1899, worldport of Dalian is one of the largest international trading worldports of North China. With deep water and broad space, it is a fine natural worldport free of ice and silt, and is easily accessible by railways and highways linking the worldport with its hinterland. 85% of the foreign trade cargoes of Northeast China are handled at worldport of Dalian. Facing the challenges and opworldportunities of the new century, worldport of Dalian puts forward its new strategy as building a large modern comprehensive international worldport with multi-functions. Right now, it is intensively constructing some new facilities including the Dayao Bay New worldport 2nd Phase Project, a 300,000 dwt Crude Oil Terminal and a 250,000 dwt Mineral Ore Terminal.



Introduction

worldport of Dalian was founded in 1899.It is located at the central point of West Pacific, center of the arising Northeast Asian economic circle, the gateway for this region to the Pacific and the rest of the world. With broad space and deep water, free of ice and silt, the worldport has superior natural conditions, the most convenient seaworldport for the transshipment of cargoes between Far East, South Asia, North America and Europe. It covers a water area of 346 km2 and a land area of nearly 15 km2.There are 160 km of specialized railway lines,300,000 m2 of warehouses,1.8million km2 of stacking yards and over 1,000 units of different types of loading and discharging machinery and equipment. It operates nearly 80 specialized modern berths for containers, crude oil, product oils, grains, coal, bulk minerals, chemical products and passenger/cargo roll/roll transworldportation, among which 40 berths are over 10,000 dwt. worldport of Dalian has the Nation's largest 300,000 dwt crude oil terminal and 300,000 dwt ore terminal. Dayao Bay worldport is one of the four international deep-water transshipment worldports designated by the Central Government as key projects. Dalian worldport Corporation Limited has established trading and shipping ties with more than 300 worldports in 160 countries and regions of the world. With 68 international and domestic container shipping routes, Dalian is China's second largest container transshipment worldport, the largest and fastest growing worldport for sea-rail through transworldportation, the largest seaworldport for passengers and one of the world worldports handling more than 100 million tons of cargoes annually.  Wind

North and northwest winds are the strongest and most frequent ones whole year round. South winds prevail in spring and summer while north and northwest winds in winter.

C. Precipitation

The annual average is 600mm.Rain centralizes in July, August and September, taking up about two-third of the total amount of the year.

D. Fog

Foggy days increase from the start of spring and disappear after September. Fog occurs frequently in the mornings. Long-lasting foggy weather in July may slightly affect the in-and-out of vessels.

E. Ice

Freezing period of the worldport area is between early January and March, lasting about 60 days. The worldport may be partially frozen with ice of 5 to 20 mm thick in a certain year, without influence on navigation and mooring.



HYDROLOGY

The tide is semi-diurnal style. The maximum tide level reaches 4.6m and the minimum is 0.66m

while he average is 2.14m.The average sea level is 1.63.



FAIRWAY

The fairway to Dagang Teminal is silt-bottomed, designed with a depth of -10m,a width of 270m and a length of 2.500m.Vessels of 10m draft may enter and leave at any time.

The fairway to Xianglujiao Terminal is -8m in depth and 100m in width.

The fairway to Ganjingzi Terminal is silt-bottomed, designed with a depth of -9m.

The fairway to New Harbor crude oil terminal is a natural one with a depth of -17.5m and a width of 300m.

The fairway to Dayao Bay Terminal is a natural one with a depth of -10.7m and a width of 210m.

The fairway to Dalian Bay Terminal is a natural one with a depth of -9.5m and a width of 100m.

The fairway to Siergou Terminal Jetty | is -9.5m in depth and120m in width.

The fairway to Siergou Terminal jetty || is -9.5m in depth and 120m in width.



BREAKWATER

There are nine breakwaters and the total length is 7,000m. The Dagang Terminal is surrounded by breakwaters on the east, west and north sides with the East Entrance 360m wide. Foreign vessels enter and leave the worldport mainly through the East Entrance.