From the Shandong port of Qingdao Port Qianwan port area of the departure of the Duffy Loire ship, carrying nearly 3,000 containers of plates, textiles, glass products, tires, machinery and equipment and other goods, a week or so, these 'Made in China' will be through the port of Qingdao this year's newly opened Central and South American routes, landing in Mexico, Colombia, Peru and other markets. Markets.
In the busy port, can strongly feel the strong pulse of the macro-economy. Recently, at the berth of Qianwan Port, we can see the Duffy Loire from time to time, such a behemoth, connecting China and the world between one in and one out.
In the face of weak global economic growth, foreign trade and steady growth under pressure, speed up the construction of Northeast Asia international shipping hub center of Qingdao Port delivered a surprise 'half a year answer sheet'. The latest data from the Ministry of Transportation and Communications shows that in the first half of the year, Qingdao Port completed a cargo throughput of 345 million tons, an increase of 5.3% year-on-year, ranking fourth in the country; completed a container throughput of 13.94 million TEUs, an increase of 11.7% year-on-year, ranking third in the country.
Taking advantage of the 'Belt and Road' to weave a dense network of routes
More and more Duffy Loire cargo ships, reflecting the changes in the layout of the port routes, and at a deeper level is the diversification of the trade pattern.
Under the background of the overall contraction of foreign demand, emerging markets have become a growth point to stimulate foreign trade. According to Qingdao Customs statistics, in the first half of ASEAN is Qingdao's largest trade market, Qingdao's imports and exports to ASEAN grew by 29.3%, imports and exports to other RCEP member countries grew by 8.5%, and imports and exports to countries along the 'Belt and Road' grew by 28.2%.
In the first half of the year, Qingdao Port continued to open routes, expanding capacity, increasing capacity, adding ASEAN, India and Pakistan, Africa, South America and other 15 foreign trade routes, the number and density of routes ranked first among the ports in northern China. Among them, there are 9 routes of 'Belt and Road' and RCEP, promoting the export of heavy containers in ASEAN direction by more than 5% year-on-year, and the export of containers in emerging South America, Middle East, India and Pakistan direction by more than 20%. Only in April and June, Qingdao Port has twice focused on opening the 'Belt and Road' and RCEP routes to further smooth the trade channel with the 'Belt and Road' and RCEP countries and regions.
'Shipping companies layout routes, first consider the changing trend of the trade market. With the deepening of the 'Belt and Road' initiative, China and ASEAN, the Middle East and other regions of the more frequent trade exchanges for the development of the port has brought great benefits.' Shandong Port Qingdao Port Container Development Company foreign trade business department project leader Xu Teng introduction.
Relying on the 'Belt and Road' land and sea crossroads advantages, and constantly extend the inland port, expanding the port hinterland, Qingdao Port is also inland along the Yellow River Basin region to provide more convenient access to the sea. In the first half of the year, the Port of Qingdao opened two sea-railway intermodal trains, sea-railway intermodal lines reached 72, Henan, Shaanxi, more than half of the export goods from Qingdao to the sea, the Yellow River Basin open gateway function is further highlighted.
The person in charge of a shipping agency company told the reporter that there were few routes to Central and South America before, and there could only be one ship in three weeks or one month. In order to ensure the timely shipment of goods, enterprises have to go to the southern port to find a ship. This year, Qingdao Port in North America route opened, the ship schedule increased to one a week, and now foreign trade enterprises along the Yellow River Basin to South America are willing to ship goods from Qingdao Port.
Demand for bulk raw materials to pull the increase in imports
The port is to observe the economic pulse of the 'barometer', whether it is the diversity of goods or the scale of the volume of goods, are projected on the macroeconomic situation and future trends.
Crude oil, iron ore, coal, grain, rubber, etc. are the main advantageous cargoes of Qingdao Port, and the throughput ranks the forefront of domestic ports. Every 6 tons of crude oil imported into the country, there is 1 ton in Qingdao Port, every 9 tons of iron ore imported from Qingdao Port, there is 1 ton, which stems from the hinterland of petrochemicals, metallurgy, rubber and other industries as a backing.
In the first half of the year, Qingdao Port completed 250 million tons of foreign trade cargo throughput, up 4% year-on-year. From the point of view of imported goods, foreign trade imports of crude oil increased by 13.5% year-on-year, foreign trade imports of grain increased by 12.5% year-on-year, pulp, rubber imports increased by 30% year-on-year. This shows from the side, the commodity market demand continues to recover, the enterprise's procurement, production and other business activities are becoming more active.
'From the advantageous types of goods can be seen from the growth of domestic demand for port development support, Shandong Province is a large manufacturing province and chemical province, is the main demand market for mechanical and electrical, rubber, pulp, metal products and other goods, which is also an important factor to support the development of the port, bulk imports of raw materials in the port of the box growth in the proportion of about 41%. With favorable policies and changes in domestic and international market conditions, rubber, pulp and other growing demand, pulling the port import increment.' Xu Teng said.
From the point of view of export goods, compared with traditional goods such as clothing, furniture, agricultural products, high-quality, high-tech, high-value-added products export growth is strong. In the first half of the year, Qingdao Port automobile exports doubled, becoming a vivid depiction of foreign trade to accelerate the quality and upgrading.
As early as the beginning of this year, BYD automobile complete sets of loose parts arrived at Qingdao Port through the sea-railway mode of transportation, by Evergreen Marine Transportation to Egypt. May 30, Qingdao Port Commodity Vehicle Terminal was inaugurated, by virtue of the special berths and yards of the hardware advantages for the automobile exports to open up a greener, more efficient, more cost-effective 'land and sea' new channel. Since July, Qingdao Port has speeded up the opening of two new energy automobile sea-railway intermodal trains, sending new energy automobiles produced by BYD Group Xi'an factory and SAIC Group Zhengzhou base to overseas.
Sea-rail intermodal transportation can realize the source of the vehicle factory into the box, to do door-to-door sealed box management, to avoid the traditional flatbed truck transportation due to the bare and caused by the damage to the car body, while also taking into account the advantages of low cost of railroad transportation, strong time, not affected by the weather. Taking the sea-rail intermodal transportation channel as a link, Qingdao Port continues to improve the whole logistics service system, enhance the specialized operation ability, and help the development of new energy industry in inland provinces such as Shaanxi and Henan.
Sea-rail intermodal transportation is only one of the manifestations of Qingdao Port to enhance its service level and service efficiency.
Strengthening the synergy between terminals, using information technology to open the 'data chimney', the innovative launch of the virtual container operation department, participation in a series of visits to the port of Shandong to promote activities, and strengthen synergies with sister ports, plate companies to achieve more efficient resource integration ...... These proactive measures are the 'code' that enables Qingdao Port to realize steady growth in throughput through the shipping industry cycle.