Auto & Transportation

Water transportation is an important part of the comprehensive transportation system, and it is an important support for serving the internal and external circulation of the economy and promoting the stability of the industrial chain and supply chain. The Ministry of Transport resolutely implements the clear requirements of the CPC Central Committee on "preventing the epidemic, stabilizing the economy, and developing safely", and gives full play to the role of the working mechanism for ensuring smooth flow of logistics. As the focus, strengthen regional linkage and scheduling coordination, and efficiently coordinate the prevention and control of waterborne epidemics, ensuring smooth flow and safe production.

Ensure the efficient operation of the port and demonstrate the hard core strength of the port

Enrich the front-line operators of the port, strengthen the closed management of personnel in high-risk positions, ensure the all-weather operation of key ports, and make every effort to promote the full production of Shanghai Port. Timely coordinate and solve the problems of poor road collection and distribution in Shanghai Port in the early stage, give full play to the advantages of water-water transfer and rail-water combined transport, and vigorously promote the "public to water" and "public to railway". From January to April 2022, the national port container rail-water combined transport volume Completed 2.789 million TEUs, an increase of 18.1% year-on-year, and comprehensively improved the port's collection and distribution capacity.

Keep the channel unblocked, and the main channel and key nodes operate in an orderly manner

A notice was issued to further strengthen the epidemic prevention and control of waterway navigable buildings and to ensure smooth flow and safe production, instructing all localities to effectively do a good job in epidemic prevention and control, flood control and typhoon prevention, inspection and maintenance in waterways, navigable buildings and water service areas. Dynamically track the channel conditions, and coordinate and solve the problem of poor operation of individual ship locks in a timely manner. Guide some ship locks to ensure the navigation during the construction period, and improve the navigation efficiency by adopting measures such as optimized scheduling and in-depth exploration of potential.

Guarantee the release of shipping capacity, and the overall decline in ocean freight rates

Guide international liner companies to ensure the investment in flights and space for export routes such as Shanghai Port, and increase the amount of online booking in the spot market. The capacity and space guarantee have been improved, and the overall freight rate has continued to decline.

Strengthen the linkage between upstream and downstream, and make every effort to ensure the stability of the industrial chain and supply chain

Implement policies and measures such as targeted reduction of pilotage fees for coastal ports, guide port enterprises such as Shanghai Port Group to adopt preferential measures for the use of heavy container warehouses, and international liner companies such as COSCO SHIPPING Group and Maersk to reduce or exempt demurrage fees and other fees, and work together with upstream and downstream enterprises. Times are tough. From April to May 2022, SIPG has reduced or exempted nearly 200 million yuan of heavy container warehouse usage fees for customers. Port and shipping enterprises, key production enterprises and import and export enterprises should strengthen the connection between supply and demand, speed up the pickup and departure of goods, give priority to ensuring the transportation needs of key materials, and promote the coordinated resumption of work and production in the industrial chain and supply chain.

Strengthen technological empowerment and focus on improving the efficiency of logistics services

Actively responding to the epidemic and vigorously promoting non-contact and paperless operations, SIPG's electronic epidemic prevention passes have been mutually recognized and operated well across the country. So far, more than 1.53 million copies have been issued. Promote the electronic circulation of port and shipping documents, deploy and apply blockchain-based container cargo port and shipping electronic cargo release, and continuously improve the online handling rate of port and shipping business. The Beijing-Hangzhou Canal Ship Lock vigorously promotes the online declaration, "water ETC" and other lock-crossing modes, and the electronic channel map of the Yangtze River Trunk Line has been completed and used, which has effectively improved the traffic efficiency.

Since May, the country's ports and waterways have been smooth and efficient, with strong capacity guarantees, and water transportation production has been stable and improving. In May, the national key monitoring ports completed a cargo throughput of 1.03 billion tons, a year-on-year decrease of 0.7%, a daily average month-on-month increase of 3.2%; the completed container throughput of 23.08 million TEUs, a year-on-year increase of 4.2%, a daily average month-on-month increase of 4.4%; 11 The international hub seaport completed a container throughput of 17.76 million TEU, a year-on-year increase of 5.2%, and an average daily increase of 3.9%. Shanghai Port completed a container throughput of 3.4096 million TEUs, a year-on-year decrease of 10%, an average daily increase of 7% month-on-month, and an accelerated recovery growth trend. A total of 31.308 million tons of cargo passed through the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River and the Changzhou Ship Lock of the Xijiang River, an increase of 1.2% year-on-year and an average daily increase of 8.3% month-on-month.

The average time in port and berthing time of ships in my country's container ports were 1.98 days and 1.04 days, respectively, up 9.2% and 3% month-on-month, significantly better than the average of 3.3 days and 2.4 days in major foreign container ports. 13 major international liner companies including COSCO SHIPPING, Maersk and other 13 major international liner companies have placed a total of 1.92 million TEUs in my country's major export ocean routes, which is basically the same as the previous month; the completed container volume is 1.84 million TEUs, an increase of 1.9% from the previous month; the average value of Shanghai's export container freight index 4126 points, down 1.9% from the previous month.