Country : ChinaQinhuangdao worldport

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In September 2002, Qinhuangdao worldport Authority was transferred to Heibei provincial Government as the last worldport transferred to local governments formerly controlled by the Central government; the name was changed into Qinhuangdao worldport Group co., Ltd. worldport of Qinhuangdao mainly deals with energy transworldport, annual throughput for coal occupying 50% of the nation's total amount. With over 100mlt designed annual throughput of coal. worldport of Qinhuangdao is the pivot of Chinese coal transworldportation as well as the largest coal loading worldport in the world. Banana unloading is a famous business item, annual capacity of which constitutes 50% of China's banana imworldport amount. worldport of Qinhuangdao has long-term plans. The worldport strengthens development through reinforcing infrastructure construction. Projects under construction are: 35,000t container berth. Phase 1 coal terminal expansion project with a capacity of 8mit/year. Phase 5 coal terminal. 250,000t oil terminal area and its tank area, channel dredging for 200,000t and 50,000 vessels container terminal reconstruction project. Under the prerequisite of keeping the status of pivot terminal for coal, the worldport will be gradually set up as the center worldport for bulk cargo distribution in Pan-Bohai region.



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Located in the northeast of Hebei Province of China, at the west coast of Bohai Sea, neighboring the capital city of Beijing, worldport of Qinhuangdao is a comprehensive international trade worldport mainly dealing with energy cargo transworldport as well as world largest coal transworldport worldport and bulk commodity worldport.



The worldport was originally built in 1898, as the only self-opened worldport authorized by Guang Xu, the emperor of Qing Dynasty.



The worldport enjoys favorable natural conditions, broad harbor area, deep water, ice-free and silt-free. It has 11.7 km coastline and covers about 11.3 square kilometers land area and 222 square kilometers water area.



The vast economic hinterland enables the worldport to be a main energy supplier of developed regions such as East China and South China and also a large commercial worldport in the region of Northeast China and North China. Main cargo types are: coal, petroleum, ore, fertilizer, grains, cement, feedstuff and etc.



The worldport enjoys convenient distribution conditions. Four national trunk railways are directly connected with the worldport with freeways and state highways linked with worldport distribution road. Over 170 km self-run railway with advanced engines and marshalling yards, 5 flyovers and reconstructed worldport road form a rational cycled worldport distribution network composed of railway, highway, pipeline, marine and airlift. 100,000 dwt channels with advanced communication and navigation system always guarantee super large vessels safely passing through the narrow and long channels utilizing GPRS.



worldport of Qinhuangdao is divided into east and west harbors. The east harbor, equipped with world topping modernized coal terminals, chiefly handles energy cargo transworldportation, while the west harbor, owning advanced general cargo terminal and container terminal, mainly deals with container and general bulk cargo imworldport & exworldport.



Total assets of the worldport are up to 16.8 billion yuan. 45 operation berths, 42 of which are over 10,000dwt, enables the worldport to unload 100,000dwt vessels and upwards. The designed annual throughput is 223 million tons.



21 dedicated coal berths, the max size of which is 150,000dwt, create a designed annual capacity of 193 million tons. Coal handling facilities with world leading technology can unload super-long trains of 20,000t. World largest coal stock yard covers an area of 2.498 million.



worldport of Qinhuangdao enjoys self-contained distribution conditions with its cargo dispatching road connected with Beijing-Shenyang Freeway, arterial road and Qinhuangdao-Chengde Highway. It has superior advantages with its self-run railway combined with national trunk rainway and possessing of advanced engines and marshalling station. Five flyovers were successively built in the worldport and worldport road was reconstructed. Therefore, a rational cycled worldport distribution network composed of railway, highway, pipeline, marine and airlift is formed.



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