The port City of Nanjing
is situated on the lower reaches of the Yangtze River
and is accessible to vessels up to 35,000 dwt all year round. It is the
largest inland port on the Yangtze with nine port facilities handling all types
of cargo including; containers, petrochemical, coal, automobiles, break bulk
and dry bulk materials.
As a multifunctional port it handles much of the
Yangtze’s sea/river and water/land transhipments and comprises three 25,000 dwt
berths (Longtan), approximately twenty 10,000 dwt berths, over fifty 1,000 dwt
berths, and a number of single point or multi point moorings. The port
boasts 59,338 sq metres of warehousing, 477,878 sq metres of storage yards and
an 18km port railway.
Throughput for
2004 exceeded 100 Million tons broken down as follows :
- 55% oil
- 10% coal
- 10% ore
- 2% grain
- 5% containers
- 5% petrochemical
- 3/4% steel
- 9/10% breakbulk/general (including 860,000 TEUs)
Nanjing
is the furthest point up the Yangtze that can accommodate vessels over 10,000
dwt, due to the air draft limitations imposed by the 1st Nanjing Bridge. Presently
the maximum draft of vessels traveling to Nanjing
is 10 metres. With this limitation, vessels over 40,000 dwt must be
lighter before calling. The Ministry of Communications is looking into
dredging to 15 meters, which will allow Panamax size vessels to reach the
port. Containers are handled at the Xinshengwei and Longtan ports.
The container terminal at Xinshengwei achieved a throughput of 360,000 TEUs in
2004, exceeding the design capacity of 250,000 TEUs. It is expected that
traffic will be diverted to the new terminal at Longtan. The new container
terminal at Longtan has a design capacity of 520,000 TEUs and achieved a
throughout of 500,000 TEUs in 2004. Longtan expects to see a throughput of
660,000 TEUs in 2005.
Source: UK
TRADE & INVESTMENT SCOPING REPORT ON CHINA:
THE YANGTZE RIVER PORTS OF CHANGZHOU, NANJING, WUHAN and CHONGQING |
