The container throughput of Zhejiang Ports and Shipping is growing rapidly, and the safety and efficiency of ship navigation will be greatly improved.

Zhejiang attaches great importance to the development of the ship transportation industry in major coastal port areas and surrounding waters, increases policy support for containers, and orderly promotes the "consolidation to distribution" in inland river areas. The container throughput of inland rivers has achieved rapid growth. , the container throughput of various cities in the province has increased to varying degrees.

It was learned from the Zhejiang Provincial Port and Shipping Management Center that in the first half of 2023, the development momentum of inland container transportation in Zhejiang Province was steady, the scale of transport capacity was steadily expanding, and the route network was expanded and optimized. The throughput in the first half of the year reached 83.5 10,000 TEUs, a year-on-year increase of 24.2%.

As of the end of June this year, there were a total of 417 container ships and multi-purpose ships in Zhejiang Province. The ship types were mainly 36 TEU, 64 TEU and 48 TEU, accounting for 51.1% respectively. , 20.6% and 11.8%, the ships are distributed in Hangzhou, Jiaxing, Huzhou, Shaoxing, Ningbo and Quzhou.

With the rapid development of Zhejiang’s coastal ports and the proposal of the Ministry of Maritime Safety Administration’s all-factor water “big traffic management” construction goal, the need to coordinate and implement the integration of Zhejiang’s coastal transportation organizations is becoming increasingly urgent. In order to further improve the efficiency of ship traffic in Zhejiang's major coastal ports and surrounding waters, ensure the safety of ship navigation in the waters, standardize navigation order, and improve ship traffic efficiency, the Zhejiang Maritime Safety Administration has formulated the "Implementation Measures for the Organization of Ship Traffic in Zhejiang's Main Coastal Ports and Surrounding Waters" (referred to as the "Measures") are hereby announced and will come into effect on October 8, 2023.

This marks the full implementation of the integration of Zhejiang coastal ship traffic organization.

The "Measures" have a total of four chapters and 29 articles, including four chapters: general principles, general provisions, special provisions on the transportation organization of each port area and supplementary provisions, which clarifies the implementation of the water area (port area and surrounding waters refer to the core port area of ​​Ningbo Zhoushan Port and the waters of Xiangshan Port, the waters of central and northern Zhoushan, the waters of Yueqing Bay, the waters of Jiaxing Port, etc.), as well as applicable requirements for ships, traffic organization principles, reporting procedures, integrity management, etc. In particular, the special regulations on water transportation organization in each port area describe the principles of important regional transportation organizations such as the core port area of ​​Ningbo Zhoushan Port and Xiangshan Port in sections.

Among them, in the core port area of ​​Ningbo Zhoushan Port and the waters of Xiangshan Port, the "OfficeThe Law clearly requires the traffic organization of ships entering the port. For example, ships sailing along the public waterways along the Zhejiang coast and entering the VTS No. 1 management area should adjust their course in the waters between 29° 37′N and 29° 43′N; for ships leaving the port, The requirements of the traffic organization are that outgoing ships anchoring from anchorages should not interfere with ships sailing in the routed waters, and outgoing ships under the 18th Traffic Separation Scheme should not interfere with outgoing ships under the 2nd Traffic Separation Scheme.

At present, Ningbo Zhoushan Port is not only an important coastal port in Zhejiang, but also the second largest port in China in terms of sea-rail combined transport business. It is an important hub connecting the "Silk Road Economic Belt". In 2022, Ningbo Zhoushan Port's cargo throughput will reach 1.261 billion tons, ranking first in the world for 14 consecutive years. More than 300 container routes connect more than 600 ports in more than 200 countries and regions. Ningbo Zhoushan Port outlines a shipping and trade network that connects the world.

In the context of the development of the digital economy, Ningbo Zhoushan Port has built a "fully automated container terminal" smart port model project to achieve differentiated breakthroughs in smart terminal construction and help build a world-class port.

Today, digital intelligence empowerment is injecting strong momentum into the construction of Ningbo Zhoushan Port into a world-class port. The smart port construction solution created by the port is Zhejiang-recognizable. The new infrastructure of the modern port is a concentrated expression of soft power and provides a copyable and referenceable Ningbo-Zhoushan Port model for the transformation and upgrading of traditional terminals around the world.

The release of the "Measures" means the comprehensive implementation of the integration of Zhejiang's coastal ship traffic organization, and a new pattern of Zhejiang's coastal transportation organization covering northern Zhejiang, central Zhejiang and southern Zhejiang will be formally formed. As a new transportation organization mechanism "original in Zhejiang and the first in the country", Zhejiang's coastal transportation organization integration has covered 97% of the foreign trade cargo throughput and 95% of the container throughput of the provincial ocean ports, effectively promoting the high level of port water transportation. Horizontal safety and high-quality development.