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The 32km world longest sea bridge-Donghai Bridge links the port to land
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@GEN. HUO

HOLY SHIT!!!!

Thank you so much for these beautiful pictures!! I hope you have more in the future. Please keep us informed about the awesome developments in Shanghai.

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Shanghai to become world's busiest cargo port this year: report

SHANGHAI, Nov 8 (AFP) - China's Shanghai could surpasss Singapore this year as the world's top cargo port in terms of throughput, state media reported Tuesday.

Turnover is expected to hit more than 440 million tonnes in Shanghai by year-end compared to 379 million tonnes in 2004 when it was second to Singapore, Xinhua news agency said.

The report, citing Shanghai Port Administration statistics, predicted that such a growth rate would be enough to pip Singapore for the top port honours. Shanghai's throughput in the past 10 months hit 363 million tonnes.

By comparison Singapore will handle 420 million tonnes by year-end after handling 211 million tonnes in the first six months to June, the report said.

In terms of TEUs or Twenty-Feet Equivalent Units, Shanghai saw container turnover of 14.89 million TEUs in the first 10 months, exceeding the 14.55 million TEUs for last year.

Although Shanghai surpassed Rotterdam in TEUs last year, its expected handling of 18 million TEUs in 2005 will not be enough to surpass leaders Hong Kong and Singapore.

Won't the port be losing a lot of efficiency by being 32KM at sea?

^ Yes and no. It's quite risky if the bridge is the only way to get to the port. On the other hand, the water may not be deep enough for container ships if the port is too close to shore. Navigation routes around Shanghai are quite busy, so having the port too close to the city isn't a good thing either.

The way I see the plan phases for the Yangshan port, although it would handle the greatest tonnage and 3rd largest container traffic, it still wont be as ambitiously impressive as the 5 phase Pelepas Container Harbor in Malaysia in terms of massive infrastructure. Don't you think?

I have a question, what will be the direction of the old container port put in use after Yangshan start to use?

How on earth can all those container trucks easily ply that 32 km. bridge when it only has six lanes? I hope they expand it to ten lanes (5 per direction plus service lanes) for a grand total of 12 lanes. I propose this because if yangshan Port with all the gantry Cranes definitely handles thousands of TEUs a day. Obviously, all or most of those containers should have to be carried by a truck to Shanghai or to other parts of China. But with only a six lane bridge that connects the port to the mainland then it will be overburdened. :)

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Players talk pluses and minuses of Yangshan port
18 November 2005
Tradewinds

Liner companies are complaining that shippers will have to pay $60 to $80 more per container to ship goods in or out of the soon-to-be-opened Yangshan Deepwater Port off Shanghai.

One reason for the higher cost is the longer distance to the new facility, which is around 100 kilometers away from Pudong. Shipping executives blame the higher cost to shuttle barge charges between existing port facilities at Waigaoqiao and Yangshan.

The additional expense is significant given that it costs between $2,000 and $2,800 per container to ship cargo from Shanghai to the US West Coast.

On the plus side, lines stand to save on bunker costs because large boxships will be able to moor easily at Yangshan. Shipping companies can save on bunker costs each time they call at Yangshan, depending on the size of the boxship, say industry executives.

At present, fourth-generation containerships have to wait for high tide before they can dock at Waigaoqiao.

The water depth in the Yangtze estuary where Waigaoqiao Port is located is seven metres, whereas the water at Yangshan is at least 15 metres deep. The new deepwater facilities are said to be able to handle boxships with a capacity of 10,000 teu.

A Shanghai-based executive with an Asian liner company said: "We'll be able to save six to seven hours of steerage because we can dock directly at Yangshan instead of waiting for the tide at Waigaoqiao."

Other executives say that the time saved could amount to more than 10 hours per call.

However, all this may not necessarily translate into significant time savings in actual operations when a boxship stops at Yangshan, says the China representative of a liner company.

He said: "At Waigaoqiao, sometimes as many as seven cranes are used in loading and unloading containers so that the ship can leave as quickly as possible.''

The first phase of the port, with five berths, is scheduled to open later this month. Shipping lines are preparing to move their Shanghai-Europe services to Yangshan in this initial stage.

One boxship company official said: "No one wants to be the first to shift to Yangshan. So, it is fair that they are making all the companies move at the same time.''

It is reported that some liner companies are asking for subsidies from the government for their Yangshan operations.

So far, no subsidies have been declared. Instead, the port authorities are raising handling charges at Waigaoqiao to prod shipping lines to shift to Yangshan.

Although some shipping executives say that to reduce cost, liner companies may opt to pass Shanghai to call at other container terminals in the area, such as Ningbo, which has natural deep-water advantages. Others say that they have little choice because of the huge volume of cargo emanating from the Yangtze river basin.

Shanghai sits right at the mouth of the Yangtze and Ningbo is located further south.

One shipping-operations executive said: "To cut cost, the trick is to minimise the cost of handling empty containers.'' He adds that ships carry a significant number of empty containers on their voyages back to China. "Discharging the empty boxes at Yangshan leads to extra costs,'' he said.

It is estimated that by 2012, when Yangshan is fully completed, the port will handle 17 million teu per year, or half of the throughput expected in the Shanghai region.

Existing ports in the Yangtze delta, such as Waigaoqiao, will handle around 18 million teu.

why is there no rail link?

Anyway, I've a question, with the proposal there are two versions. One is that there is this really long chunk of reclaimed polders that extend to the sea while there's another wherein it aldo had these polders but has even reclaimed the center part where ships should pass. What do you think is the real proposal. Just curious. :)

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Wow, that looks crazy. It so far out in the sea. It's very risky having it so far out especially with only one link to the main land. If that bridge is closed down, it will shut down the port.

why didn't they build a rail link, sea port to the mainland? i think i'll be more efficient to have one complementing the road bridge.

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South China Morning Post Ltd. Dec 6, 2005

Shanghai's mega-port project officially opens on Saturday and a potential shareholder believes lower land and port charges could offset its extra road transport costs.

Cosco Pacific, one of the potential shareholders of Yanshan Port phase II, said Shanghai Port International would apply to raise charges at the downtown Waigaoqiao complex, without saying how much. But Yanshan's port charges would not change, said Cosco Pacific vice-chairman Sun Jiakang.

The US$12 billion deepwater Yanshan Port is located on reclaimed land on an outlying island connected by 70 km of highways and a bridge, but offers more land supply and hence lower rents than Waigaoqiao.

"Lower land cost and the government's concession policy will help to offset the higher trucking cost," Mr Sun said.

Shipping lines have been told to route all Asia-Europe trade through Yanshan and Shanghai Port International's move to raise charges at Waigaoqiao is seen as a concession to ease their discontent.

Yanshan Port began a trial run last month and there will be no grand opening, according to an industry source. "The Shanghai government wants to make it a low-profile beginning," the source said.

The shareholder structure of phase II is yet to be announced but Hutchison Port, Maersk Sealand, Cosco Pacific and China Shipping are believed to be included.

Shanghai handled 14.6 million teu (20-foot equivalent unit) containers last year and aims to surpass Hong Kong and Singapore as the world's biggest container handler by 2020.

seriously:

if china is building sth. like this today, what will they build in 2010 or 2020?

a city for 100 million people in the middle of the pacific ocean?
a independence day like flying saucer....

I am a litlle bit scared

Wow, that looks crazy. It so far out in the sea. It's very risky having it so far out especially with only one link to the main land. If that bridge is closed down, it will shut down the port.

Ship from Yangshan to Shanghai is another way.

Wow, this is a cool port.

Here's an article on it in the NY Times:

NY Times
December 12, 2005
A New Port in Shanghai, 20 Miles Out to Sea
By DAVID BARBOZA

SHANGHAI, Dec. 11 - China has opened the first phase of what could eventually become the world's largest container shipping port, a deepwater facility on an island about 20 miles out to sea.

The Yangshan Deep Water port is this city's effort to keep up with the explosive growth of exports in the Yangtze River Delta region, which has grown into a strong rival to China's long-dominant Pearl River Delta area.

Some experts say the new port could eventually help Shanghai overtake Hong Kong as the world's biggest container shipping port, while also posing new challenges to Singapore and Busan, South Korea, two of Asia's leading trans-shipment hubs.

"This is a major development," said Wu Wenhua, a researcher at the Institute of Comprehensive Transportation in Beijing. "This port will help make Shanghai a major shipping and financial center. They didn't have a deepwater port, so this was a major breakthrough for them."

Other experts say the city of Shanghai might have to spend up to $18 billion over the next 15 years to complete the construction of this complex port, which will be able to accommodate much bigger cargo ships and by 2020 could handle alone as many as 20 million 20-foot-equivalent containers.

The Yangshan Deep Water port is another one of China's large infrastructure projects, which are meant to ensure that the country's soaring economic growth does not stall because of energy shortages, transportation bottlenecks or land and labor restrictions.

And few cities in China are as ambitious as Shanghai, which is building skyscrapers, superhighways and bullet trains, as well as leveling entire districts and relocating tens of thousands of people to prepare itself for the 2010 World Expo.

Shanghai now operates the world's third-busiest container shipping port behind Hong Kong and Singapore, which each handled just over 20 million 20-foot-equivalent unit containers last year.

Shanghai's ports handled nearly 15 million of the containers last year, up from about 6 million in 2001, even though this city lacked a deepwater port that would have allowed bigger ships to dock.

Its existing ports along the Yangtze and Huangpu Rivers are about 23 feet deep. And they are prone to silting and other problems that have helped create transportation and export bottlenecks.

But on Saturday, Shanghai opened the first five berths of the Yangshan Deep Water port, which can handle as many as three million 20-foot containers.

The port, which sits amid a cluster of islands far out in the East China Sea, is 49 feet deep.

To get cargo to and from the Yangshan Deep Water port, the government built a six-lane bridge 20 miles long - one of the world's longest bridges - to connect the coastal region of Shanghai to a pair of islands that belong to nearby Zhejiang Province.

The bridge took two and half years to build with 6,000 full-time workers. It will soon be tested by armies of cargo truck drivers who may sometimes have to navigate fog and high winds to reach the Yangshan Islands to unload.

The coastal city of Ningbo, also near the new Yangshan port, has also been growing fast. And officials in Ningbo, a city in Zhejiang Province, pushed to make their city the site of the biggest port in the Yangtze River Delta region.

But Shanghai officials were able to persuade Zhejiang officials to allow them to virtually annex a cluster of islands and stretch a bridge from Shanghai into their territory, helping Shanghai retain its regional dominance.

At a news conference here Saturday, Shanghai officials said the city government financed the project, but now some of the world's biggest cargo port operators are negotiating with Shanghai officials for a role.

By 2020, if necessary, the islands could have as many as 50 berths.

But some experts here say that building the Yangshan port is as much about prestige as money.

Shanghai seems determined to be a financial and trading capital. And without a new deepwater port, it could have faced losing out to rival ports in the nearby coastal city of Ningbo or other areas of China and Asia.

"This speeds up the process of positioning Shanghai as an international shipping center in northeast Asia," said Yang Xiong, deputy mayor of Shanghai.

Could someone show more what the other port facilities look like, and where in Shanghai they are located?

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Good job! General Huo

When is the whole Yangshan port planned to be completed? Looking at the renderings, it seems only a certain part is finished. Also, what does this mean for Shanghai's existing container ports? BTW, where are the existing container ports anyways?

South China Morning Post Ltd. Dec 20, 2005
Hutchison Port Holdings and APM Terminals have signed an agreement to take a 32 per cent stake each in the second phase of the US$12 billion Yangshan deepwater port project in Shanghai.

The deal comes after months of simmering discontent among mainland members of the consortium that will run the container port which were dissatisfied with their allocation in the shareholding structure.

China Shipping Group and Cosco Pacific, which had expressed concern that the foreign players were being given the most, have settled for 10 per cent each, indicating that their attempts to get more of the project had failed.

The fifth member of the consortium, Shanghai International Port Group, which is 30 per cent owned by China Merchant Holdings (International), will take the remaining 16 per cent of Yangshan, due to be ready by the end of next year.

It is expected that when the four berths of Phase II are completed, they will help Shanghai edge out Hong Kong and Singapore as the world's largest container ports.

Phase II is expected to cost up to US$870 million. Yangshan is among the most expensive port developments on record, with building costs of each berth at about US$205 million, almost triple the equivalent costs for comparable ports.

Backed by China's strong exports in recent years, container terminals in Shanghai handled 14.89 million 20-foot equivalent units (teu) of goods in the first 10 months, up 25 per cent year on year. Throughput growth has surpassed Shenzhen, which recorded a rise of about 19.6 per cent in volume to 13.38 million teu in the same 10-month period.

Shanghai had lacked a deepwater port before Yangshan was built from islands in the mouth of Hangzhou Bay. Silt at the mouth of the Yangtze had previously limited the size of ships that could call at Shanghai.

Modern Terminals, controlled by conglomerate Wharf (Holdings), failed to get involved with the project but hopes to participate in the third phase.

Meanwhile, Hutchison yesterday also announced the official opening of Shanghai Mingdong Container Terminals at Waigaoqiao Phase V in Shanghai. Shanghai Mingdong is a 50-50 joint venture between Shanghai International and Hutchison Ports Waigaoqiao, a subsidiary of Hutchison Port Holdings.

Port In Talks To Set Up China's 1st LME Warehouse -Report
22 December 2005

SHANGHAI (Dow Jones)--The new Yangshan Port in Shanghai has kicked off talks with the London Metal Exchange to set up China's first LME warehouse, state media reported Thursday.

Citing a source at the port, China Business News said the outcome of the negotiations will be known in three to six months.

Local industry officials and analysts said LME will sooner or later set up warehouses in China, as the country is the world's largest consumer of copper. Such a warehouse may help expedite copper delivery for contracts made on LME.

In Asia, LME has warehouses in Singapore and South Korea. More than 400 warehouses around the world are certified to stockpile and help complete the delivery of LME base metals contracts.

Construction of Yangshan Port is scheduled to be completed in 2020. The port, expected to serve the Yangtze delta region, is designed to have an annual handling capacity of 25 million twenty-foot-equivalent-units containers.

The first phase of the port, operated by Shanghai International Port (Group) Co., turned operational early this month. AP Moeller-Maersk A/S, Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. (0013.HK) and three other companies will jointly develop and operate the second phase.

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WOW! :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

I've read about the Yangshan project, i wanetd to start a thread about it too but couldnt find any information.

wow

China builds everything HUGE

looks great

Whats the reason for building this port so far out?

read the articles you lazy bastard, it says it needed deeper water for the bigger ships.