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211,000 TEUs Xiamen Port’s domestic trade container business increased by 26.3% year-on-year
2024-03-06
On March 4, three nearly 200-meter-long domestic trade container ships docked at the Xinhaida Terminal of Xiamen Port, efficiently completing the loading and unloading of nearly 6,800 standard containers. In the first two months of this year, the terminal completed domestic trade container throughput of 211,000 TEUs, an increase of 26.3% over the same period last year.
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"This achievement has further boosted the confidence of the shipping market and consolidated Xiamen Port's status as a domestic trade container hub port." The relevant person in charge of Xiamen Port Holding Group said that the domestic trade container business has increased steadily, which reflects the operation of Xiamen Port from the side. The business environment is highly recognized by airline companies.
Xiamen Port currently has 26 domestic trade container liner routes. It is understood that when serving the domestic trade container business, Xiamen Port rationally schedules and scientifically coordinates to improve the ship direct call rate. At the same time, it also greatly improves port loading and unloading services and optimizes port loading and unloading services by optimizing operating techniques and processes, implementing full-process refined management and other measures. It reduces the berthing of domestic trade shipping vessels and shortens the time of ships in port, reflecting "high efficiency and high quality".
Industry insiders said that after more than 10 years of development, the domestic trade container business of Xiamen Port has become an important channel for "North-South Grain Transportation" and "North-South Coal Transportation". It is also an important channel for the province's foreign transportation of building materials, light industrial products, etc. It is of great significance to promote the economic development of Xiamen and surrounding areas and promote the quality and upgrading of manufacturing, commerce, finance and other industries. In the future, Xiamen Port Holding Group will actively work with shipping companies to continuously enrich the domestic trade route layout, encourage trunk line and branch line shipping companies to continue to build a domestic trade container transportation service network centered on Xiamen Port, attract more cargo sources to Xiamen Port, and further Consolidate and enhance the status of Xiamen Port as the southeast international shipping center.