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Latest developments in freight market:2021-11-23


Xiamen Port welcomes "Silk Road shipping" again


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On the 3rd, Xiamen Port welcomed another "Silk Road shipping" giant ship: "Mediterranean Ambra". Drawings provided by Fujian Silk Road shipping operation company

Beijing, Xiamen, October 3 (Yang Fushan, Bai Wenbin) on the 3rd, Xiamen, as a strategic fulcrum city in the core area of the "Silk Road", welcomed another "Silk Road shipping" giant ship "Mediterranean Ambra" (English ship name: MSc Ambra), which is one of the world's largest container ships.

The "Mediterranean Ambra" carries out the Asia Mediterranean route and is attached to global ports such as Busan, South Korea, Shanghai and Xiamen, Singapore, gioiatoro, Italy and Barcelona, Spain.

During the ship's berthing at Xiamen port, Xiamen Songyu container terminal opened the full speed operation mode of "Silk Road shipping" for it.

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Xiamen Songyu container terminal opened the full speed operation mode of "Silk Road shipping" for the berthing "Silk Road shipping" giant ship. Drawings provided by Fujian Silk Road shipping operation company

Since the outbreak of novel coronavirus pneumonia, the global supply chain and industrial chain are facing great challenges. Chinese ports are no exception, with great epidemic prevention pressure, but production operations have not stopped.

Benefiting from the measures of "Silk Road shipping" port service standards, transit service standards and service supporting of express routes, the production data of "Silk Road shipping" are red every month, and the supply chain system is fully guaranteed. Statistics show that in the first three quarters of this year, a total of 2094 voyages were carried out on 72 "Silk Road shipping" named routes in China, with a container throughput of 2.5178 million TEUs. Among them, 66 "Silk Road shipping" named routes in Fujian Province opened 1918 voyages, and the container throughput was 2.0779 million TEUs, a year-on-year increase of 16.21%.

Li Nan, deputy general manager of Fujian Silk Road Shipping Operation Co., Ltd., said that Xiamen port, the 14th largest container throughput in the world, has 55 "Silk Road shipping" named routes, 1645 voyages, and completed a container throughput of 1890900 TEUs, a year-on-year increase of 17.0%.

With the development of one belt, one road, the first silk road transport in Xiamen in 2018, and accelerated outward expansion. Up to now, Tianjin, Shandong and other Chinese ports have successively joined and released 12 named "Silk Road shipping" routes with higher service standards. Gdansk port of Poland and PSA international port group of Singapore have also joined the "Silk Road shipping" alliance. Shipping, logistics, manufacturing, trade, finance, science and technology and other enterprises and institutions around the world have joined the "Silk Road shipping" Circle of friends, gradually discuss port and shipping cooperation, jointly build the silk road channel and share economic and trade prosperity.

Mateusz dawidowski, chief representative of Gdansk port representative office in Shanghai, Poland, said that since joining the "Silk Road shipping" Alliance for more than a year, he has deeply realized the guiding role of "Silk Road shipping" in promoting in-depth exchanges and cooperation in the international port shipping logistics industry, and hopes to take this opportunity to seek cooperation opportunities in port investment and operation and the linkage of upstream and downstream enterprises of port and shipping, Achieve win-win results. (end)


Source: China News Network时间:2021-10-08


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