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CHINA: PORT DEVELOPMENT
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Guangzhou, Ningbo join top 10 club
Top 10 Chinese container ports 2008
Port 2008 traffic Increase
(M TEU) vs 2007
Shanghai 27.89 7.0
Shenzhen 21.40 1.5
China’s Guangzhou and Ningbo Shenzhen port operators are now tar- work in the Pearl River Delta, helping because they are counted when we calcu-
geting domestic boxes that are mainly shippers to transport boxes from second late throughput figures,” said a manager at
Guangzhou 11.22 19.04
ports edged into the world’s top 10
Ningbo 11.00 18.8
handled at neighbouring Nansha, which and third tier ports at very low costs. Qingdao Port Group. “We started thecontainer port rankings in terms of
Qingdao 10.32 9.06
throughput last year. is under the jurisdiction of Guangzhou Domestic box traffic made up 70% of empty box special offer in November and
Tianjin 8.50 19.7
Guangzhou handled 11.22M TEU in port. Yantian International Container Ter- Guangzhou’s volumes last year, said Zheng our depot is almost full now,” he said.
Xiamen 5.03 10.26
2008, up 19.04% on the 2007 figure and minals (YICT) in eastern Shenzhen, Lingtang, a manager at Guangzhou Port An executive at Shanghai Interna- Dalian 4.50 18.08
rising from 12
th
to 6
th
spot in the global which accounted for 45% of the city’s Group, but the port has started to feel the tional Port Group (SIPG) said discounts Lianyungang 3.00 48.22
rankings, while Ningbo climbed from throughput last year, has started feeder chill as China’s economy is slowing down. would be offered to clients according to
Yingkou 2.03 7.48
11
th
to 7
th
with a throughput of 11M services, in association with Sinotrans Operators in northern and eastern their monthly container volumes. The
TEU, up 18.8%. Guangdong, to and from smaller ports in China have also come up with their own general rule is that free storage will only storage or handling fees for the empty
The ports of Shanghai, Hong Kong, the Pearl River Delta where manufactur- plans to maintain volumes. Shanghai and be offered to those with more than boxes are available.
Shenzhen and Qingdao are also in the ers are based. YICT is trying to emulate Qingdao have set their eyes on empty 30,000 TEU of imported empty boxes The scheme seems to be working well
top10 list. Singapore continues to lead the the successful strategy of Guangzhou, boxes, offering free storage and special dis- per month. For companies that have so far and has been well received by ship-
rankings, with Busan, Rotterdam and which has in recent years developed a counts on handling empties. smaller or less stable monthly volumes, ping lines, according to the two port ex-
Kaohsiung also making the top 10. comprehensive shuttle barge service net- “The empty box strategy has helped other special offers such as a discount on ecutives. a74
But the latest figures signal the begin-
ning of the end of China’s double-digit
throughput growth, as three of the top five
ports saw single-digit increases last year.
Shanghai saw throughput rise 7% to
28M TEU, missing its target of 28.5M TEU,
which had been lowered from 30M TEU
in October. In December, China’s largest
port saw volumes drop to 2.2M TEU, down
: % , 0 ) L E W M X G S Z I V I H
5% over the December 2007 figure.
Shenzhen, which recorded the lowest
percentage increase of 1.5% last year, han-
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dled 21.4M TEU after recording a 15.7%
year-on-year drop in volumes in Decem-
ber to 1.66M TEU.
Hong Kong
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faces glut
G E F P I G E V V M I V W
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of empties
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Government officials are looking for
a site to store the hundreds of thou-
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sands of empty containers that are Y T X S Q Q M R
expected to flood Hong Kong in the
next few months as the global finan-
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cial crisis slows China’s exports.
The former airport site at Kai Tak
is one option, the Transport and Hous-
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ing Bureau told shipowners and op-
erators of container depots. But a De-
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velopment Bureau spokesman said it
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had reservations about that and would
seek other sites.
Throughput at Hong Kong’s Kwai T S V X X I G L R S P
X V I R G L
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Chung containerport fell 23% year on
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year in December to 1.03M TEU and
the number of empties handled rose � 9 T X S O :
12.8%. China’s January imports fell 43%
and exports 17.5%, by value, while
Hong Kong’s exports fell 11.4% year
on year. Guangdong Province, China’s
industrial powerhouse in the south,
expects zero export growth this year.
Hong Kong’s 17 big container de- ' E F P I ' E V V M I V W
pots are already full to their 160,000
TEU capacity. “There is no time to
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lose,” said Mark Chan, chairman of the
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Hong Kong Container Depot and
Repair Association. “We thought Kai
Q Q M R
Tak would be our quick solution, be- � 1 S X S V H V M Z I R J I W X S S R
cause we cannot hold up much longer.
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There are thousands of empty boxes
coming in every day.”
Chan said the number of empties
his members are storing has risen 10-
fold since September. “Truck drivers
have already seen a drop in business
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amid the downturn in sea trade. If the
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empty containers go elsewhere, the
drivers will have nothing to deliver
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and they will lose their jobs,” he said.
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A senior shipping industry source
said major shipowners had asked the
government for more space to store
empties. Legislator Miriam Lau of the
Liberal Party, who is helping the
1 S X S V H V M Z I R
groups liaise with the government, said
the matter needed urgent attention.
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A source familiar with the situa-
tion said although land at Kai Tak is
� 0 S [ Q E M R X I R E R G I
; I P G S Q I X S 8 3 ' % W M E M R 7 L I R ^ L I R
available on short-term lease, storing
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J V S Q 1 E V G L
containers on such a valuable harbour
G E V I J Y P G E F P I L E R H P M R K 1 I I X Y W E X F S S X L &
front site would be inappropriate. It
would increase heavy-vehicle traffic in
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an area close to homes, he said.
Y T X S Q Q M R
Even if a suitable site is found, it
could take months before it can be used
as the operators would have to go
through a bidding process and govern-
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[ [ [ Z E L P I H I � M R J S $ Z E L P I H I
ment would need to seek the opinion
of the district council concerned. a74
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