Bao Feiyang smiled: "Pujiang Port's container throughput entered the top ten in the world for the first time last year, reaching 3.06 million TEUs, which is almost one-fifth of Xincheng Port. Mr. Li thinks how much container throughput can the Pujiang Port be achieved in ten years?"

Li Xianguo's eyes flashed: "Your country's economic reform has achieved obvious results. Although the speed of economic growth has declined in the past two years, as the reform deepens, we are still optimistic about your country's economy maintaining rapid growth. According to your country's economic development goals, the total economic volume will double in about ten years, and the corresponding import and export volume will also double. Considering the convenience of container transportation, the container throughput of Pujiang Port should grow faster in the next ten years, and may have the ability to exceed tens of millions of TEUs in ten years!"

Bao Feiyang glanced at Li Xianguo: "Mr. Li's analysis is a bit one-sided. Linking the port's container throughput with economic growth may be effective in mature economies, but in the mainland, container ocean transportation can only be said to be just starting, and the construction of Pujiang International Shipping Center has just started, so the growth rate of container transportation will only be faster than the economic growth rate."

Bao Feiyang said: "In 1990, the container throughput of Pujiang Port was only 450,000 TEUs, and since then, it has basically maintained an annual growth rate of more than 20%. By 1993, it has doubled, and in 1996, it has reached 1.97 million TEUs, and in 1998, it has reached 3.06 million TEUs. In the first half of this year and 1.91 million TEUs, it should be no problem to reach 4 million TEUs throughout the year, that is, it has doubled in almost four years. If it develops at this rate, by 2009, the container throughput of Pujiang Port will not exceed 10 million TEUs, but should exceed 20 million TEUs..."

Bao Feiyang smiled and said, "I think this estimate may be conservative. If we continue to increase the construction of Pujiang Port and build Pujiang Port into an international shipping center, then the growth rate may be faster and may reach about 25 million TEUs..."

“25 million TEU?”

Li Xianguo couldn't help but be stunned. The 25 million TEU was equivalent to eight times the throughput of Pujiang Port last year, tripled in ten years, and doubled on average every forty months!

Li Xianguo couldn't help but shook his head: "It is said that the district principal understands economy. I think the district principal should know the marginal efficiency in economics. The container transportation of Pujiang Port has developed almost from scratch, and it grows on the basis of hundreds of thousands of TEUs. The growth rate will naturally be very fast. When it reaches millions of TEUs, it can still maintain a growth rate of more than 20% per year. It is also a tutor for the past. When it reaches more than tens of millions of TEUs, it will not be so easy to maintain a growth of two or three million TEUs!"

Bao Feiyang smiled. Compared with Xincheng and Xingang, Pujiang Port is not the same as the same magnitude, only one-fifth of them. Xincheng and Xingang maintain a growth rate of about one million TEU every year. In ten years, Xincheng Port's container throughput can also reach more than 25 million TEUs. That will be the last time Xincheng has the opportunity to win the world's largest port. In the future, Pujiang Port will surpass Xincheng Port, become the world's largest port, and quickly leave Xincheng Port behind.

As for Xingang, they were indeed the most affected by the rise of mainland ports such as Pujiang Port. Their growth rate was even worse than Xincheng Port. Soon, they went from being side by side with Xincheng Port to being abandoned by Xincheng Port, then being surpassed by Pujiang Port, and even being surpassed by Shenzhen Port, and then being surpassed by Ningcheng Zhoushan Port... And among the top ten ports in the world, seven belong to China, which means that not only Pujiang Port is developing rapidly, but ports in China are developing!

By then, the container throughput of Pujiang Port will reach more than 30 million and close to 40 million TEUs, which is completed when the international forwarding ratio is less than 10%. In other words, Shipujiang Port has not made any major breakthroughs in international forwarding since then, and there are many reasons. One of the main reasons is that the construction standards of Yangshan Port are low, especially the cross-sea bridges, which only have highways and no railways, resulting in low transportation efficiency and high cost, which affects the linkage of ports and cities.

Because the construction standards of Yangshan Port are relatively low, Yangshan Port has never become the main port area of ​​Pujiang Port. Gaoqiao and Gaoqiao New Port still bear more than half of the container throughput. Therefore, Bao Feiyang has to admit that the issue raised by Li Xianguo is actually very fatal. If the relationship between the offshore deep-water port and Gaoqiao Port cannot be handled well, it will inevitably affect Yangshan Port's efforts to develop into an international transshipment port.

The reason why Yangshan Port failed to reach its due height is also very complicated. In fact, the expansion of Pujiang Port is imperative and the problem of waterways is imminent. However, there have always been many different plans for the construction of Xingang District. On the one hand, Chunshan and Chundong New District hope to continue dredging the Tianjiang Channel, deepen the channel, and then expand the scale of the Yangtze River Port Area. The advantage of this plan is that the construction cost is controllable and the cost is lower, and the port construction and waterway dredging can be gradually carried out, with little investment at one time.

On the other hand, the neighboring Ningcheng has better waterways and port conditions. They have been trying to put Pujiang Port in the transfer business at Ningcheng Zhoushan Port, but Pujiang City obviously cannot accept it. Ningcheng cannot replace Pujiang's position in international and domestic shipping.

In addition to Ningcheng Zhoushan Port, Xingang does not want Pujiang Port to completely replace its role. Xincheng Port is also unwilling to see Pujiang Port develop international transshipment business.

Not only that, the main source of Pujiang transfer containers, the inland port along the Tianjiang coast, also hopes to join forces with Pujiang Port to dredge the Tianjiang waterway. In this way, their cargo will be delivered to Chunshan and Gaoqiao Port Area closer, and the river port along the coast can also berth larger freighters.

The trade-offs and game between all parties, coupled with the huge investment in the construction of offshore deep-water ports, has caused the plan to expand Pujiang Port to be delayed. After the final decision was made to build Yangshan Port, the dominant position of Yangshan Port was not established. Inadequate investment in Yangshan Port could not completely replace Gaoqiao Port, which caused the two major container transshipment ports to be too far apart and caused a lot of trouble. The construction of Yangshan Port was not strong enough and could not keep up with the rapidly growing demand for container transportation. In the end, it was still constantly building Gaoqiao New Port and dredging Tianjiang Waterway, which was equivalent to taking two roads at the same time. Although this practice was stable, it also made Yangshan Port not play its due role, otherwise the development trend of Pujiang Port would be better.

"It seems that the District Mayor Bao is very optimistic about the development of Pujiang Port..."

Li Xianguo smiled, obviously not wanting to continue arguing with Bao Feiyang on this issue, especially in front of Yang Chenglin.

"The prospects for Pujiang Port are indeed very good, and Pujiang Port really needs to expand the port area and improve the throughput capacity of goods."

"However, the offshore deep water port seems to solve the problem of water depth in the waterway and can give Pujiang Port a natural waterway of 20 meters deep, but the offshore island itself also limits the space for port development."

Li Xianguo said: "Let's not talk about the difficulty of offshore port projects and their impact on the hydrological environment. Offshore islands must be connected to land through cross-sea bridges. We do not discuss the difficulty of cross-sea bridge projects, their impact on the geological environment, their impact on Tianjiang ecology, and their impact on the weather. Just the traffic costs and efficiency will greatly increase the transportation cost of cargoes that go out of the offshore port!"

"In addition, the offshore deep-water ports restrict the development of port industry. After all, the offshore islands are limited, and it is relatively tight just as a yard. There is no room for developing port industry..."

Li Xianguo said: "So we are more optimistic about the plan of Gaoqiao New Port. Gaoqiao New Port is connected to Gaoqiao Port, which can easily dispatch goods and also facilitate the transportation of goods from Jianggang along the Tianjiang River. A large number of hinterlands can also provide the development of port-side industries and give full play to the driving role of ports in the economy."

Lee Hsien Guodao: "Mayor Yang, we talk about Maxi's great optimism about the development of Pujiang Port and are willing to invest in the construction of Gaoqiao New Port. We have good cooperation in shipping giants such as Maersk and Dafei Shipping, which can convince them to participate in the construction of Gaoqiao New Port, build Gaoqiao New Port into a container port with world-class advanced level, and develop it into a world-class container hub port..."

Yang Chenglin couldn't help but look slightly. The shipping giants participated in port construction, which had a huge impact on the development of the port. After all, these shipping giants have a large number of ocean-going cargo ships and flights, and have the ability to formulate flights and routes. For Pujiang Port, if shipping giants open more flights, it will not only increase the throughput of the cargo, but also attract more branch lines. The main line flights berth at Pujiang Port, helping Pujiang Port become a hub port.

Bao Feiyang smiled: "Mr. Li seems to be very concerned about the construction of Pujiang Port? To a certain extent, Pujiang Port and Xincheng Port are in a competitive relationship..."

Li Xianguo shook his head: "I am really concerned about the construction of Pujiang Port. The District Mayor of Bao should know that Maxi has always been interested in the investment in ports. The rapid development and huge potential of Pujiang Port have attracted us a long time ago. We have also determined our plan to invest in Gaoqiao New Port..."

Li Xianguo smiled and said, "Compared with the offshore deep water port plan, we are more optimistic about Gaoqiao New Port. In order for our investment plan to not fail, we certainly hope that Pujiang City can continue to promote the construction of Gaoqiao New Port!"
Chapter completed!