Chapter 875: Magic City Port

Container ships are transport ships that mainly carry containers. Their cargo capacity is calculated by tonnage or 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. They have high loading and unloading speeds and short port stays, which can greatly improve the efficiency of ports.

It has to be said 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 port stay time has been greatly shortened, and the amount of cargo damage during cargo loading and unloading has been reduced. Since then, container ships have developed rapidly and have matured and finalized in the 1970s.

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

Container ships generally dock at dedicated cargo terminals and use special large cranes on the terminals for loading and unloading. Their efficiency can reach 1,000 to 2,400 tons per hour, which is 30 to 70 times higher than that of ordinary general cargo ships.

Part of the ports invested and built by Panshan Group are container terminals.

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 of the Yangtze River Delta, has a unique geographical advantage.

After all, it is in the middle of the coastline of the Chinese mainland, where the Yangtze River and the East China Sea meet. This geographical location is really excellent.

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

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

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

Now the cargo throughput of Shanghai Port is about 200 million tons, of which containers are about 2 million TEUs, and the development potential is very huge.

Shanghai lacks funds, but Panshan Group does not.

This is a match made in heaven.

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

Liu Tao had dealt with Shanghai more than once, and Panshan Group has many industries in Shanghai.

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

The next morning, a negotiation meeting was held.

The two sides had contacted each other long before, and the general framework had been discussed. This time, Liu Tao led the delegation to reach a cooperation, and the two sides held a signing ceremony.

The entire Shanghai Port seaport waters include the Shanghai section of the Yangtze River, the registered waters of Hangzhou Bay, the Huangpu River waters, 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, Waigaoqiao Port Area, located on the south bank of the Yangtze River south of Wusongkou, will be one of the core port areas for container transportation of Shanghai International Shipping Center according to the plan. It is a large deep-water port area that mainly transports containers and oil products, while taking into account bulk and general cargo transportation.

On July 1, 1991, the first pile foundation was laid in Waigaoqiao Port Area. This is the leading project for the development of Pudong. The planning and design of the new port area has 4 10,000-ton berths and an annual throughput capacity of 2.4 million tons.

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

"The second phase of the Waigaoqiao Port Area will build a new container terminal and three 10,000-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, making the container throughput capacity here reach 6 million TEUs/year! The total investment is 35 billion yuan."

Chen Shangde, deputy general manager of Xiangjiang Port Group, who participated in the early planning, introduced: "Jumping out of the Yangtze River Estuary, building a container hub port on the Big and Small Yangshan Islands, about 30 kilometers away from Luchao Port, 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 2010 The North Port Area will form a deep-water coastline of about 11 kilometers and build more than 30 deep-water berths. The total budget investment is 30 billion yuan. After completion, the annual container throughput capacity will reach 13 million TEUs. The South Port Area coastline is a reserved coastline for planning and development after 2010. From a long-term perspective, there is huge development potential here. The overall plan can form a land area of ​​more than 20 square kilometers, more than 20 kilometers of deep-water coastline, and more than 50 container berths, forming an annual throughput capacity of more than 25 million standard containers. "

The total investment in the planning and design of the entire Magic City Port is expected to reach 250 billion yuan, making it the largest port in the country.

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

Panshan Group invested 200 billion yuan in the construction of the Magic City, and the Magic City invested 50 billion yuan to improve road traffic. With the existing port assets and land as capital, the two parties jointly established the Magic City 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 the Magic City Port.

The two parties have agreed on the general framework, but they have not reached an agreement on the shareholding of both parties.

The Magic City hopes to hold 50% of the shares, and each party will hold half.

However, Panshan Group disagrees, because the road traffic network is originally for the Magic City to invest and build. What the Magic City really has to pay is the existing port and the land of the port terminal, but the land is not valuable now, so it is naturally unwilling to let the Magic City hold 50% of the shares.

Liu Tao came here this time to negotiate 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 sides have reached a consensus on the development and construction of Shanghai Port. Shanghai can only hold 20% of the shares at most. After all, we have to pay 200 billion yuan in real money." Liu Tao said directly, "In fact, our Panshan Group can choose Zhejiang Province and Jiangsu Province to vigorously develop ports. Now the reason why we choose Shanghai Port is because of the large-scale development of Pudong."

When the leaders of Shanghai heard this, their faces turned pale.

They asked for 50% of the shares, but Liu Tao said directly that they could only hold 20% of the shares, which was a direct blow.

Shanghai's fiscal revenue has increased significantly in recent years, but Shanghai also needs to spend a lot of money, such as municipal roads, drinking water, etc., all of which require a lot of capital investment.

So Shanghai has no funds for port construction.

The total investment in the first phase of the Waigaoqiao Port project is 2.3 billion yuan, and Shanghai can only take out 800 million yuan, and the rest has to rely on bank loans.