The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 875: Magic City Port

A container ship is a transport ship that mainly carries containers. Its cargo capacity is calculated in tonnage or expressed in the number of 20-foot equivalent units (TEU) or 40-foot equivalent units (FEU) loaded.

Container ships can be divided into full container ships and semi-container ships. The advantages of container ships are obvious, with high loading and unloading speeds and short port stay time, which can greatly improve the efficiency of ports.

I have to say that the person who invented the container is indeed a genius.

Since the birth of the first container ship in 1957, its loading and unloading efficiency has been 10 times greater than that of conventional general cargo ships, the time spent in port has been greatly shortened, and the amount of cargo damage during transportation and loading and unloading has been reduced. Since then, container ships have developed rapidly and had matured by the 70s.

Over the years, container ships have developed to the fifth generation.

Container ships usually dock at dedicated cargo terminals and use specialized large cranes at the terminals for loading and unloading. Their efficiency can reach 1000 to 2400 tons per hour, which is 30 to 70 times higher than that of ordinary general cargo ships.

Part of the port invested and built by Panshan Group is a container terminal.

The container loading and unloading machinery produced by Panshan Group has reached the international advanced level and is widely used in major ports around the world.

In June, Liu Tao took his team to Shanghai.

Shanghai, the core area of ​​the Yangtze River Delta, has unique geographical advantages.

After all, this is located in the middle of the Chinese mainland's coastline, where the Yangtze River meets the East China Sea. The geographical location is truly excellent.

After the reform and opening up, the development of Modu Port entered the fast lane.

However, Shanghai currently lacks funds, and its port development is far inferior to that of Yangcheng Port.

After so many years of development, Yangcheng Port has become the largest port in the mainland.

As for the largest port in China, it is the Port of Hong Kong.

This time, he brought China Ports Group Corporation and Xiangjiang Ports Group to Shanghai to invest in Shanghai Port.

Currently, the cargo throughput of Shanghai Port is about 2 million tons, of which containers account for about 200 million TEUs, and the potential for development is enormous.

Shanghai lacks funds, but Panshan Group does not.

It was a match made in heaven.

Liu Tao and his party arrived in Shanghai and were warmly welcomed by the Shanghai people.

This is not the first time that Liu Tao has dealt with the Magic City. Panshan Group has many industries in the Magic City.

That evening, Shanghai held a welcome banquet to welcome Liu Tao and his party to Shanghai and to entertain them.

The next morning, a negotiation meeting between the two sides was held.

The two sides had already made contact before, and the general framework had been discussed. Liu Tao led the delegation to come here to reach a cooperation, and the two sides held a signing ceremony. The entire Modu Port seaport waters include the Modu section of the Yangtze River, the registered waters of Hangzhou Bay, the Huangpu River, and the Yangtze River estuary anchorage waters and the Lvhuashan anchorage waters outside the Yangtze River estuary.

According to the handover between Panshan Group and Shanghai in the past two years, the planning of Shanghai Port has been readjusted. According to the latest overall plan of Shanghai Port, Shanghai Port is mainly divided into: Waigaoqiao Port Area, Baoshan Port Area, Huangpu River Upstream and Downstream Port Area, Huangpu River Middle Reaches Port Area, Huangpu River Upstream Port Area, Jinshan and Jiujing Chemical Port Area (Hangzhou Bay Port Area), Yangshan Port Area, Chongming Three Birds Port Area and Lingang New City Port Area.

Each port area has its own positioning.

For example, the Waigaoqiao Port Area, located on the south bank of the Yangtze River south of the Wusongkou Port, will serve as one of the core port areas for container transportation in the Shanghai International Shipping Center according to the plan. It is a large deep-water port area that mainly transports containers and oil products, while also taking into account the transportation of bulk and general cargo.

On July 1991, 7, the first pile foundation was laid in the Waigaoqiao Port Area, which was a flagship project for the development of Pudong. The new port area was planned and designed to have four 1-ton berths and an annual throughput capacity of 4 million tons.

The project uses a shoreline length of 990 meters, a pier length of 900 meters, and a front water depth of 12 meters.

"The second phase of the Waigaoqiao Port Area will build a new container terminal with three 3-ton berths, which can accommodate two third- and fourth-generation container ships and one second-generation container at the same time. The third, fourth, and fifth phases will be built at the same time, bringing the container throughput capacity here to 600 million TEUs per year! The total investment is 350 billion RMB."

Chen Shangde, deputy general manager of Heung Kong Port Group, who participated in the early planning, said: "We will build a container hub port outside the Yangtze River estuary on the Big and Small Yangshan Islands, about 30 kilometers away from Luchao Port. This is a deep-water port with a water depth of 16 meters and a large area of ​​virgin land for the construction of professional container berths. The recent plan is to form a deep-water coastline of about 2010 kilometers in the North Port area by 11, build more than 30 deep-water berths, and the total investment budget is 300 billion yuan. After completion, the annual container throughput capacity will reach 1300 million TEUs; the South Port area coastline is a reserved coastline for planning and development after 2010. From a long-term perspective, this place has great development potential. The overall plan can form a land area of ​​more than 20 square kilometers, a deep-water coastline of more than 20 kilometers, and arrange more than 50 container berths, forming an annual throughput capacity of more than 2500 million standard containers."

The total investment in the planning and design of the Shanghai Port is expected to reach RMB 2500 billion, making it the largest port in the country.

This includes a modern, comprehensive, three-dimensional, developed transportation network that combines sea, land and air with ports as the center, involving roads, railways and waterways.

Panshan Group invested 2000 billion yuan in the engineering construction of Modu, and Modu invested 500 billion yuan to improve road traffic. The two parties used existing port assets and land as capital to jointly establish Modu International Port Group Co., Ltd., forming a port service industry chain including terminal logistics, shipping, land transportation, pilotage, towing, and agency, and undertook the loading and unloading tasks of the public terminal of Modu Port.

The two parties have agreed on the general framework, but have not reached an agreement on each other's shareholding.

Modou hopes to hold 50% of the shares, with each party holding half.

However, Panshan Group disagreed because the road traffic network was originally to be invested and constructed by Modu. What Modu really had to pay was the land of the existing port and port terminal. But the land was not valuable now, so Panshan Group was naturally unwilling to let Modu hold a 50% stake.

Liu Tao came here this time to negotiate this matter with the Magic City.

The two parties are brothers, but brothers still have to settle accounts clearly.

"Leader, we have done a lot of work in the past few years. Both parties have reached a consensus on the development and construction of Shanghai Port. Shanghai Port will only hold 20% of the shares at most. After all, we are going to spend 2000 billion yuan in real money." Liu Tao said directly, "Panshan Group can actually choose Zhejiang Province and Jiangsu Province to vigorously develop ports. Now we choose Shanghai Port because of the large-scale development of Pudong."

When the leader of the Magic City heard this, his face turned pale.

They asked for 50% of the shares, but Liu Tao directly said that they could only have 20% of the shares, which was a huge concession.

The fiscal revenue of Shanghai has increased significantly in recent years, but Shanghai also has a lot of money to spend. Municipal roads, drinking water, etc. all require a large amount of capital investment.

Therefore, Shanghai does not have much funds for port construction.

The total investment for the first phase of the Waigaoqiao Port Area project is 23 billion yuan, but Shanghai can only come up with 8 million yuan, and the rest has to rely on bank loans.

(End of this chapter)