Taicang Port

Taicang Port

Taicang port is located at the intersection of the Yangtze River and the open coastal areas. With 38.8 km of the Yangtze River coastline and - 12.5 m deep-water channel, it is the only natural harbor in Jiangsu, rare in China and rare in the world. Since the reform and opening up, especially since the beginning of the new century, in order to ensure the development of the Yangtze River Delta and Jiangsu open economy, the state and Jiangsu Province attach great importance to Taicang port. The state has positioned Taicang port as an important part of Shanghai international shipping center, a container trunk port, and a river sea transport transit hub port. The Jiangsu provincial Party committee and government require Taicang port to be built into a container transport hub along the Yangtze River in Jiangsu Province It is also known as "the first foreign trade port in Jiangsu".

According to the latest statistics, the cargo throughput of Taicang port in 2016 reached 232 million tons, up 13.76% year on year. In the whole year, there were 6127 international ships in and out of Taicang port, up 20.44% compared with 2015, and the throughput of foreign trade goods was 74.7245 million tons, up 12.71% compared with 2015.

In terms of cargo types, the throughput of coal and products was 65.026 million tons, with a year-on-year increase of 49.09%; the throughput of metal ores was 86.546 million tons, with a year-on-year increase of 15.32%; the throughput of containers was 4.0814 million TEUs, with a year-on-year increase of 10.13%. In terms of cargo types, coal, iron ore and containers accounted for 92.12% of the throughput.

Historical evolution

Taicang port, known as Liujiagang in ancient times, originated in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. In the Yuan Dynasty, the government carried out the transportation of grain to the north, built large berths along the Liujiagang line, and established maritime storage and maritime institutions. Since then, merchant ships from the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, coastal areas such as Wentai, Zhejiang, Japan, Ryukyu, Korea, Annan and other countries have gathered in Liujiagang. Liujiagang has become "the wharf of six countries" and "the first Wharf in the world". In Ming Dynasty, Liujiagang, as the anchor of Zheng He's seven voyages to the west, reached its peak and became an important hub port in the world at that time. After the Ming Dynasty, due to various reasons, the port gradually became silent.

Since the reform and opening up, the rapid development of Southern Jiangsu economy, especially the export-oriented economy, has put forward urgent requirements for the development and construction of the port, and also provides a favorable source of goods for the port development and construction.

At the beginning of 1992, the Party committee and government of Taicang county decided to set up a port development zone along the Yangtze River, making full use of the resources of the Yangtze River coastline to develop and construct the port, so as to promote the export-oriented economic development of Southern Jiangsu, echo the development and opening up of Shanghai Pudong, and drive the local economic development of Taicang. In the same year, Jiangsu provincial Party committee and government decided to list Taicang port as a key port in Jiangsu Province in accordance with the spirit of the conference on development and opening up along the Yangtze River held by the State Council. In November 1993, the Jiangsu provincial government approved the establishment of Taicang Port Development Zone, which is also a provincial Development Zone. In the Ninth Five Year Plan for national economic and social development of Jiangsu Province and the outline of long-term goals for 2010 formulated by Jiangsu provincial government, it is clearly proposed to "focus on the development and construction of Taicang port and make it a major commercial port with container hub port as the main body in the Yangtze River Estuary as soon as possible", and a "leading group for planning and construction of Taicang port in Jiangsu Province" has been specially established to strengthen the supervision of Taicang port The leader of port planning and construction. In November 1996, Taicang port was approved as a national first-class port and officially opened to foreign ships. In September 1999, the General Administration of Customs approved Taicang port as a container transit port. In 2001, the Ministry of communications and the State Development Planning Commission positioned Taicang port as the trunk port of container transportation in Shanghai international shipping center. In November 2005, Jiangsu provincial Party committee and government decided to set up Jiangsu Taicang port working committee and Jiangsu Taicang Port Management Committee, which are established at the deputy department level, to fully undertake the management functions of Taicang port construction and development. In September 2006, the Ministry of transport issued the national coastal port layout plan, which listed Suzhou Port (Taicang port, Changshu port and Zhangjiagang port) as one of the nine major container trunk ports in China. In May 2010, the State Council approved the regional planning for the Yangtze River Delta region, and Taicang port was positioned as a key container trunk port and a river sea intermodal transit hub port. In December 2012, the Ministry of finance, the national development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of transport jointly approved that Taicang port will be managed as a coastal port from January 1, 2013, and implement the policy of administrative charges for the port. In September 2013, the Ministry of transport issued a notice to cancel the compulsory pilotage of five-star flag seagoing ships in and out of Taicang port and below the Yangtze River from November 1, 2013. Since then, Taicang port has been a harbor in an all-round way. In October 2013, the Ministry of transport and the people's Government of Jiangsu Province jointly approved the master plan of Suzhou Port (2013-2030), which made it clear that Suzhou port is an important hub of China's major coastal ports and comprehensive transportation system, an important part of Shanghai international shipping center, an important support for the economic and social development of Jiangsu Province and Suzhou City and the promotion of the modernization of Southern Jiangsu Province The Taicang port area of Suzhou Port mainly serves Jiangsu Province, Suzhou City and the areas along the Yangtze River, with Container Trunk transportation, iron ore and coal transshipment as the main transportation, and correspondingly carries out the transshipment storage and transportation of petrochemical products, taking into account the port industrial development of Taicang City.

Geographical advantages

Taicang port is located at the "t" junction of the Yangtze River economic belt and coastal economic belt. It has the location advantage of connecting the Yangtze River and the sea. The port is 68 nautical miles away from the pilot anchorage of the Yangtze River Estuary. It has 38.8 kilometers of the Yangtze River coastline, including 25.7 kilometers of excellent deep-water coastline with 10000 ton berths. The coastline is straight, the beach is stable, and deep-water nearshore. It has all kinds of conditions for building a container hub port . At present, the navigable water depth is up to - 12.5 meters, which can meet the requirements of all-weather entry and exit of 50000 DWT bulk carriers and the fourth generation container ships, and the entry and exit of 100000 or 200000 DWT bulk carriers and the fifth and sixth generation container ships by tide or load shedding.

Taicang port is located in the core of the Yangtze River Delta, one of the most developed regions in China. Relying on the rapid economic development of Southern Jiangsu such as Suzhou, Wuxi and Changzhou and central Jiangsu such as Nantong, Taizhou and Yangzhou, especially the export-oriented economic development of national development zones such as Suzhou Industrial Park, Suzhou high tech Zone, Kunshan Development Zone and Taicang Port Development Zone and many provincial development zones, a large number of local container sources have been accumulated for port development. Relying on the golden waterway of the Yangtze River and the rapid economic development of large and medium-sized cities in the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River, the port has provided sufficient river sea transshipment sources.

Taicang port is close to the hinterland. By land, it is only about 60 km to Shanghai, 80 km to Suzhou, 60 km to Suzhou Industrial Park, 90 km to Wuxi, 100 km to Nantong, 250 km to Nanjing, 60 km to Shanghai Hongqiao Airport, 96 km to Shanghai Pudong Airport and 86 km to Sunan Shuofang airport. The port is similar to the above cities All of them are connected to the airport by expressways. The waterway is connected with more than 20 ports along the Yangtze River.

Port status

Since its opening in the 1990s, Taicang port has achieved sound and rapid development with the strong support of relevant ministries and commissions, Jiangsu provincial Party committee and government, Suzhou municipal Party committee and government, as well as relevant departments at all levels.

By the end of 2013, the total number of berths in Hong Kong had reached 72, including 34 berths above 10000 tons and 10 container berths, with a total designed throughput capacity of 125 million tons and 4.35 million TEUs. It has Taicang Port comprehensive protection area, information center, port centralized inspection center, Yangtze River Delta's only national level imported timber quarantine and disinfestation treatment area, public dangerous goods box operation area, anchorage, comprehensive supervision and rescue base, truck parking lot and other functional carriers.

The collection and distribution system has formed a perfect collection and distribution network system. Relying on Su Kun Tai expressway, Taicang Port Shugang expressway, Xi Tai first-class highway, 338 provincial highway, 339 provincial highway and Xingang highway, which are directly connected to the wharf, they are connected with Yanjiang expressway, Huning Expressway, Su Jia hang expressway, Coastal Expressway, 204 National Highway and 312 national highway, forming a dense high-grade highway network radiating the Yangtze River Delta. The Taicang branch line of the Shanghai to Shanghai railway, which will be built soon, will go directly to the container port area. Through yanglintang, the channel for dredging the port, it is connected with the inland river network in southern Jiangsu; relying on the Yangtze River, it can reach all ports in the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River through water diversion.

By the end of 2013, the total number of routes in Hong Kong had reached 114, Among them, there are 13 foreign trade routes, which are linked to 13 ports in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, and the Japanese routes are daily; there are 36 domestic trade trunk lines, whose operation network covers China's major coastal ports; there are 19 Yangshan Waigaoqiao foreign trade branch lines, which seamlessly connect with more than 20 parent shipping companies in Shanghai; there are 46 Yangtze River (canal) branch lines, which are linked to 18 major ports along the river There are four ports, i.e. port and canal. In 2013, a total of 2533 import and export enterprises from 25 provinces (cities and districts) delivered goods from Taicang port, an increase of 2 provinces (cities and districts) and nearly 300 import and export enterprises over the same period of last year.

Port production in 2013, the port completed container throughput of 3.267 million TEUs and cargo throughput of 130 million tons, an increase of the same caliber

Chinese PinYin : Tai Cang Gang