port in China
Port in People ‘s Republic of China
Yangshan Deepwater Port under construction The Port of Shanghai ( chinese : 上海港 ; pinyin : Shànghǎi Gǎng ; Wu; Zånhae Kån ), located in the vicinity of Shanghai, comprises a deep-sea port and a river port.

The main port enterprise in Shanghai, the Shanghai International Port Group ( SIPG ), was established during the reconstitution of the Shanghai Port Authority. Companies such as the Shanghai Port Container Co. and Waigaoqiao Bonded Zone Port Co. were involved in port of Shanghai. [ 1 ] In 2010, Shanghai port overtook the Port of Singapore to become the world ‘s busiest container port. Shanghai ‘s port handled 29.05 million TEU, whereas Singapore ‘s was a half million TEU behind. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Shanghai handled 43.3 million TEU in 2019. [ 4 ] Shanghai is one of lone 4 port-cities in the world to be categorised as a large-port Megacity, due to its senior high school volumes of port traffic and large urban population. [ 5 ]

geography [edit ]

The Port of Shanghai faces the East China Sea to the east and Hangzhou Bay to the south. It includes the confluences of the Yangtze River, Huangpu River ( which enters the Yangtze River ) and Qiantang River .

administration [edit ]

The Port of Shanghai is managed by Shanghai International Port, which superseded the Shanghai Port Authority in 2003. [ 6 ] Shanghai International Port Company Limited is a public listed company, of which the Shanghai Municipal Government owns 44 % of the outstanding shares. [ 6 ]

history [edit ]

In 1842, Shanghai became a treaty port, therefore developing into an external commercial city. By the early on twentieth century, it was the largest city and the largest port in East Asia. In 1949, with the Communist coup d’etat in Shanghai, oversea trade was cut dramatically. The economic policy of the People ‘s Republic had a cripple effect on Shanghai ‘s infrastructure and capital development .
In 1991, the central government allowed Shanghai to initiate economic reform. Since then, the port has developed at a rapid pace. By 2005, the Yangshan deep-water port had been built on the Yangshan islands, a group of islands in Hangzhou Bay linked to Shanghai by the Donghai Bridge. This development allowed the port to overcome shallow water conditions in its current placement and to rival another deep-water port, the nearby Ningbo – Zhoushan port. The port is part of the twenty-first Century Maritime Silk Road that runs from the chinese seashore to Singapore, towards the southerly tip of India to Mombasa, from there through the Red Sea via the Suez Canal to the Mediterranean, there to the Upper Adriatic area to the northern italian hub of Trieste with its connections to Central Europe and the North Sea. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ]

Harbour zones [edit ]

The port of Shanghai includes three major working zones :

economy [edit ]

The Port of Shanghai is a critically crucial transportation hub for the Yangtze River region and the most important gateway for foreign trade. It serves the Yangtze economically developed backwoods of Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Henan provinces with its dense population, firm industrial base and develop agricultural sector. [ 11 ]

Data [edit ]

Million tonnes moved
year
1984 100
1999 186
2005 443
2006 537
2007 561
2008 582
2009 590
2010 650
2011 728
2012 736
2013 776
2014 755
Sources: ShipTechnology.com,[12] GeoHive[13]

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