Sea Trade Marytime News
June 05, 2020
June 05, 2020
During the last ten days period of May, the cargo throughput of major Chinese ports kept increasing and posted an increase of 0.9% year-on-year.
Ningbo-Zhoushan port is bringing a new 70,000 tonne-class container berth into operation in July.
ABB reports that it has added Sovcomflot’s Azipod-equipped icebreaking LNG carrier Christophe de Margerie - which last month completed a landmark early-season transit of the Northern Sea Route - to the list of vessels using its ABB Ability remote diagnostics services.
The overall container throughput and international container cargo volume of eight major Chinese ports increased 20% and 18% respectively comparing to middle May, resuming to around 98% and 96% of the volume in the same period of last year.
The crude oil shipments at major coastal ports increased 15.43% year-on-year. The iron ore shipments at major ports increased 6% compared year-on-year, among which the growth rate of Ningbo-Zhoushan port and Qingdao port exceeded 10%.
The port business along Yangtze river continued recovering in late May. The cargo throughput of three major ports, Nanjing, Wuhan and Chongqing, has reached the same level of last year’s while the container volume resumed to 98%.
The berth, located at Chuanshan port area of Ningbo-Zhoushan port, with a water frontage of 330 meters, has a designed annual handling capacity of 620,000 teu.
Chuanshan port area mainly services for container and large size bulk cargos, as well as LNG and oil products, which is a key port area of Ningbo-Zhoushan port. It launched the operation of rail terminal at Chuanshan port this year, which could further improve the overall sea-rail combined cargo transportation capacity of Ningbo-Zhoushan port.
With the operation of the new berth, Chuanshan port area will have eleven container berths.
Last year, Chuanshan port area recorded 10.35m teu in container throughput.
Available 24/7 through the company’s global network of eight Collaborative Operations Centres, the remote services utilise advanced data analytics to enhance operational safety and ensure optimal performance, says the company, while helping to promptly detect and correct faults on board.
“This latest development in our long cooperation with Sovcomflot is another major step forward in our ‘Electric. Digital. Connected.’ strategy,” commented ABB Marine & Ports md Juha Koskela, “real-time support for a sophisticated vessel such as Christophe de Margerie demonstrating that our connected expertise can be delivered in full, no matter how remote the location.”
Like her sister ships servicing Yamal LNG, the 172,600 cu m Sovcomflot vessel is equipped with three of the largest Azipod propulsion units ever produced by ABB, enabling the vessel to navigate safely through ice up to 2.1 m thick.
The ARC7 ice-class tanker made history in 2017 as the first merchant vessel to cross the full length of the Northern Sea Route without icebreaker assistance, and last month completed a transit of the same route carrying Yamal LNG cargo bound for China two months earlier in the summer season than usual.
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