Port, Zhuhai's most advantageous core resources, since the establishment of the date of the Special Economic Zone, will begin to stage a scene like a sea of change: 30 years, the port of Zhuhai has been from a small-scale river ferries and fishing ports, and jumped into the west bank of the Pearl River Delta and even the entire Xijiang River Basin ports group, "the leader".
Today in Gaolan Port, 100,000 tons, 150,000 tons of deep-water berths are under construction, new international routes are constantly opening up, up the West River river river port alliance has been set up around the port of the formation of the industrial chain is gradually gathering.
Gao Lan Port, is moving towards a new generation of regional hub port with a throughput of more than 100 million tons, a container throughput of 3 million to 5 million TEUs, and a collection of deep-water, integrated, efficient and environmentally friendly.
SAR 30 years: port throughput increased by 278 times
Zhuhai in 1978 was still a frontier town with only 13 motorized transport ships and 8 barges. Although the liberated port of Xiangzhou was already a major port in Guangdong Province, the ports within Zhuhai at that time were still dominated by small-scale fishing ports and ferries. For many years the port throughput of the entire Zhuhai County hovered around 180,000 tons.
In 1980, the establishment of the Zhuhai Special Economic Zone, Zhuhai has become China's window to the outside world, the "port to develop the city" development strategy has also begun to sprout quietly from this time. From 1979 to 1985, the city of Zhuhai invested more than 130 million yuan in the field of port construction, focusing on the construction and development of the port of Jiuzhou and Qianshan Port. 5 years, the city's port throughput increased by 9 times, reaching 1.92 million tons.
In 2010, the Zhuhai Special Economic Zone entered its "founding year". From Gaolan Port, international container routes can go straight to South America, and Xijiang River barges can go straight to Wuzhou, Guangxi. This year, the annual throughput of Zhuhai Port, led by Gaolan Port, is expected to reach 50 million tons, an increase of 278 times compared to 30 years ago.
In the Zhuhai Municipal Party Committee and the municipal government launched the "ten key projects" in the Gaolan Harbor Economic Zone in the next three to five years, the hub project construction and industrial investment will total more than 130 billion yuan. Gaolan Port, the only deep-water terminal on the west bank of the Pearl River, is becoming a regional hub port that radiates around and drives industrial development.
Jiuzhou Harbor: open to Hong Kong "water golden channel"
1980, Jiuzhou Harbor passenger terminal and small cargo terminal construction. 1982 September, Zhuhai's first open to the outside world port Jiuzhou Harbor was completed, and immediately opened up the Hong Kong, Shenzhen Shekou two routes. The transportation time from Zhuhai to Shenzhen and Hong Kong was historically shortened to more than one hour. The door of Zhuhai to Hong Kong, the world trade center, was opened.
Built in 1982, the Jiuzhou Port Passenger Terminal has five berths for five wing ship or catamaran jet boat berthing at the same time, can also be used for 800 seats of the large passenger ships berthing; small cargo terminal has three berths, berthing of 1500-ton cargo ships and container ships, with 800,000 tons of cargo throughput capacity per year. Such a scale of the Jiuzhou Port at that time, not only is the only deep-water port on the west bank of the Pearl River Delta, but also Zhuhai's largest comprehensive passenger and cargo terminals.
More than 20 years ago, some Hong Kong investors who saw the potential of the development of the Special Economic Zone came to Zhuhai through this major water transportation channel and began to set up factories and businesses. This investment boom later created a number of Tianwei Pegasus based in Zhuhai dozens of years of outstanding Hong Kong-funded enterprises.
Till today, the port of Jiuzhou is still Zhuhai waterway docking Shenzhen, Hong Kong, an important window, Jiuzhou Port Container Terminal is still a lot of enterprises in Zhuhai, an important link in the logistics chain. Jiuzhou Port to Hong Kong's high-speed passenger ships, 28 years has become a real "water golden channel", is Zhuhai and Hong Kong more extensive and close cooperation with the necessary transportation infrastructure.
Gao Lan Port: practicing Zhuhai "port city" responsibility
Prior to the 90s of the last century, Xiangzhou Port, Jiuzhou Port, Jingan Port, Qianshan Port and other ports to serve Zhuhai's own urban construction and trade with Hong Kong, for the time of the socio-economic development of the city has made a great contribution. However, as the West River at the mouth of the "gateway city", Zhuhai is still no 10,000 tons of deep-water port, no international container routes, which means that the port of this door to the world is not really open.
In 1992, from Zhuhai City through the town of Nanshui Zhuhai Avenue, Gaolan Harbor two 20,000-ton multi-functional wharf, connecting the town of Nanshui and the island of Gaolan Island, the island embankment has been completed and put into use. From then on, Gaolan Harbor with port development to drive the prosperity of the city's good intentions, roaring onto the historical stage of social and economic development in Zhuhai.
In 2008, the new municipal party committee and municipal government clearly put forward the development strategy of "establishing the city by harbor". With 68.5 kilometers of shoreline, planning to build more than 100 docks of more than 10,000 tons, and has the conditions to build more than 300,000 tons of petrochemical terminals, the annual design throughput of up to 150 million tons of more than the Port of Gaolan, really become an important strategic resource for the development of the port of Zhuhai and the core competitiveness.
July 2008, the port development and construction management system reform curtain opened, the city port authority, Zhuhai Port Holdings Group and Gaolan Port Economic Zone Management Committee was successfully formed, the formation of the port administration, port operations and development, port construction and management of both a clear division of labor and a linkage of the new system. Over the past two years, despite the impact of the international financial crisis, Zhuhai Port still maintains a steady rise in the momentum of good development, and then proposed to "move towards a billion tons of port"!
However, in the Pearl River Delta region, the port of GaoLan port toward the hundred million tons of large ports of footsteps is not easy. The face of container throughput has been a considerable scale of Yantian Port, Nansha Port, Zhuhai Port must take the road of differentiated development. 2009, Zhuhai Port coal, oil, gas and other throughput 24.9 million tons, accounting for 23% of the energy throughput in Guangdong Province, of which refined oil accounted for the proportion of Guangdong Province, 15.86%, liquefied petroleum gas accounted for 20.58%, are ranked second in Guangdong Province. The implementation of the differentiation strategy has enabled Zhuhai Port to avoid homogeneous competition with neighboring ports and narrow the gap with advanced ports.
To this end, while vigorously building container terminals, Gaolan Harbor has also focused on promoting the construction of coal terminals, ore terminals and petrochemical terminals. At present, 80,000-ton oil terminal, 50,000-ton container terminal have been completed, 100,000-ton coal terminal, 150,000-ton ore terminal is under construction.
With the development of the port, the advantages of the interaction between port production and port-related industries gradually emerge. The development of Gaolan Port has not only driven the development of Zhuhai's large-scale electric power, petrochemicals, shipping, aviation, equipment manufacturing and other advantageous industries with international competitiveness, successfully attracted Shell Oil, BP Chemicals and other Fortune 500 companies as well as China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), China Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC), etc., to invest in Zhuhai, but also driven the formation of Zhuhai's regional logistics center, which greatly enhances Zhuhai's regional competitiveness and influence, and has become the key to building a core city on the West Coast core city of the key.