The river boat headed out to sea for the first time! The inaugural cruise of China's largest inland river container ship in Wuhan
Container ship Hanhai No. 5, the most advanced container ship with the largest cargo capacity in the country, slowly left Wuhan Xingang Yangluo Port Phase II Port Terminal on February 28 to load medical supplies and mechanical equipment from Hubei and Hunan provinces. , Glass curtain wall, fiber optic cable, tea and other products shipped to Shanghai Yangshan Port, and then exported to Southeast Asia, Europe and the United States.
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According to reports, the ship is 139.8 meters long, 26 meters wide, 11.5 meters deep, 6.9 meters draft, and has a maximum dead weight of 16,338 tons and a carrying capacity of 1,124 TEUs. These vessels are cross -border vessels between river vessels and sea vessels, with low energy consumption and low environmental pollution.
According to an official from Huazhong Port and Shipping Group, the Hanhai 5 has doubled its container capacity compared to the current major ship types. The average daily fuel consumption per container is reduced by more than 23% compared to ships on current routes, and container transportation costs have decreased. More than 30%.
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Hanhai No. 5 mainly runs on special shipping routes between Wuhan and Shanghai Yangshan Port. It performs two -week shift operations (one week for exports and one week for imports). Currently his party is responsible for transporting Hubei and Hunan provinces to Wuhan to merge and relocate. Used. Hanhai No. 5 has been in operation, indicating that China Airlines Group owns the third boutique route after the international asphalt transport route and the Only liner route.
During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, to implement the construction pilot of Hubei Province as a strong transportation nation and establish the purpose of developing Wuhan New Port into a hub port in the central province, Huazhong Port and Shipping Group plan to invest another 160 million yuan to build two ships 500 TEU containers and shipped them to Wuhan. It operates routes to Japan, opens a combined water rail transportation channel for container transport from Japan to Europe, and deepens its consolidation into both international and domestic. cycle strategy.
