Hebei’s Huanghua port reports increasing cargo volumes
January 31, 2013 Category Logistics, Ports & sea transport
Huanghua port in Hebei province has reported steady annual increases in cargo and container volumes. According to the latest data from the port, it handled a total of 130 million metric tons of cargo in 2012, an increase of 12.4% on 2011. Coal throughput jumped by 5% from a year earlier to 105 million tons, accounting for 81% of its total cargo flow. The figures represent a sound performance compared with the industry’s national average growth, analysts said. During the first 11 months of 2012, Chinese ports handled cargo volume totaling 8.9 billion tons, up 6.9% compared with the same period last year, according to the Ministry of Transport, but 7 percentage points lower than the year before. Huanghua port saw two 400,000-container capacity terminals start operating at the beginning of 2012. They handled a total of 102,000 containers for the whole year – a record for new terminals in China. By contrast, container throughput processed by all Chinese ports in 2012 jumped 8% from a year earlier to 146 million containers, a growth rate about 4 percentage points lower than 2011. Officials at Huanghua attributed the solid performance to its key geological location, which can substantially reduce logistics costs for energy companies, steel makers and coal exporters based in China’s coal-rich central provinces. The port has also implemented favorable policies, including subsidies for shipping companies that chose to ship their cargo through the port. Since October 1, 2012, it has also exempted trucks carrying containers to and from the port from paying expressway tolls in the province. The port is currently building a CNY3.76 billion, 58.8-km-long, 200,000-tonnage deep-water channel, which should be in use by the end of this year. Cangzhou Mayor Jiao Yanlong said the local government wants to build Huanghua into a key national port by 2020, the China Daily reports.
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