Source: Taiwan Straits Network
November 6 (Taiwan Straits Herald reporter Zeng Yushan Cui Xiaoxu / Wen Shenwei correspondent Bai Wenbin) Yesterday morning, with the smooth docking of the Hong Kong container ship "Haifeng Licheng" at haitian wharf, Xiamen Port ushered in the 15th new international liner route this year. The route operates between Northeast Asia and China-Southeast Asia, berthing at ports in RCEP countries such as Busan in South Korea, Xiamen in China, Singapore, Klang in Malaysia, and Laem Chabang in Thailand, and shipping companies from SITC International, Korea Shipping, Yangming Shipping, and Ocean Netlink have invested a total of 4 ships to operate the route.
In recent years, Xiamen Port has taken many measures at the same time, and customs, maritime, border inspection and relevant units have improved the port business environment from the soft and hard levels, attracted the concentration of ships and cargo, and the route network has been continuously encrypted. Up to now, Xiamen Port has reached 107 international routes, reaching 142 ports in 50 countries around the world, the strategic fulcrum status of the core area of the "Hai Silk Road" has been continuously consolidated, and the construction results of the "Silk Road Shipping" have been continuously highlighted.
This time, the first ship of the new route, "Haifeng Licheng", is expected to dock in Xiamen for more than 10 hours, and high-quality goods made in China will be transported to countries and regions along the "Belt and Road" through the ship.
The Herald reporter saw at the operation site of the Haitian wharf that trailers and cranes were running rapidly, containers were intensively circulating between ships and yards, and all links of the wharf were "full of firepower" and striving to sprint to this year's production targets. In order to ensure that the ship runs more efficiently and the goods reach the hands of customers more quickly, the "SITC Licheng" also adopts the "Silk Road Shipping" meteorological navigation service for the first time, which means that the "SITC Licheng" has brighter "eyes" on the vast ocean, and the "perception" of meteorological and marine changes will be more acute. After leaving the port of Xiamen, the freighter will sail to Singapore, 1500 nautical miles away, and the ocean-going meteorological navigation team composed of experts in the field of meteorology and navigation will jointly make decisions to choose a fast, efficient and safe path for the ship.
According to reports, the "Silk Road Shipping" meteorological navigation related technology is jointly developed by the relevant national meteorological departments, transportation departments, professional universities, members of the "Silk Road Shipping" Alliance, etc., with independent intellectual property rights, breaking the technology monopoly of Japan and the United States in the field of long-distance flight meteorological navigation for decades. Up to now, five ships of the "Belt and Road" routes originating from Shanghai Port, Ningbo Port, Xiamen Port, Dalian Port, Busan Port and other five domestic and foreign ports are participating in the "Silk Road Shipping" meteorological navigation test. In xiamen port, the core area of the "Sea Silk Road", the meteorological navigation of "Silk Road Shipping" will form a full-chain all-weather meteorological support for oceans, seaports and hinterlands with the "Silk Road Shipping" automatic meteorological observation station and related inland observation points at the mouth of the sea.
According to statistics, as of October 31 this year, there are 80 named routes of "Silk Road Shipping" in the six ports of the country, with a total of 2331 voyages and a container throughput of 2.8095 million TEUs. In the next step, "Silk Road Shipping" will continue to give full play to the advantages of mechanism innovation and alliance cross-border, take the 80 "Silk Road Shipping" named routes as the starting point, and work with meteorological departments and alliance members to jointly carry out domestic meteorological navigation core technology and market promotion, so as to play a greater role in smoothing the "Belt and Road" maritime trade channel and building a maritime power.