Since the start of the year, the CCCC (Xinghua) Port, located in Xinghua city, East China's Jiangsu province, has experienced significant increases in the transportation volumes of building materials such as sand and stone.
Construction of the port began in October 2018 and it began trial operation on Aug 6, 2020.
In the first half of this year, its container throughput hit 23,900 twenty-foot equivalent units or TEUs, a whopping year-on-year increase of 83.23 percent.
At present, the port has seven 1,000-metric-ton berths, with a total shoreline length of 553 meters. Its design throughput capacity is 2.51 million tons annually.
Port operator, CCCC (Xinghua) Port Development, located in the Xinghua Economic Development Zone, is engaged in specialized integrated logistics services for the import and export of containers, building materials and miscellaneous goods.
Fang Kaichuan, the company's market operations manager, said that by the end of October, its overall throughput had exceeded the level of the whole year last year.
One shipowner, Cheng Cheng, who often transports cement to the port, said he has greatly benefited from the efficiency of finding goods through online freight platforms.
"Previously, the longest waiting time for goods was eight to 10 days, but now the goods can be loaded within three days after the ship arrives at the port," he said.
Work gets underway at CCCC (Xinghua) Port. [Photo/xinghua.gov.cn]