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Organization of the logistic chain in the Chinese international trade
Shanghai International Container Terminals
Container Terminals
No. of
Berths
Source: Shanghai Port Authority. Throughput capacity is still a data to confirm with port Authorities.
Shanghai Container Terminals (SCT), located along the Huangpu River were the first operating in
Shanghai. With the vessels size increasing, and the growing traffic demand, the dimensions of the river
progressively became a bottleneck. So an expansion to other locations turned out to be necessary and
resulted in the Waigaoqiao Terminals by 1995. However they quickly operated at full capacity. The
fast development of the Yangtze River Delta has made very difficult to keep infrastructure development
at the pace of the growth in cargo volume. Besides port facilities weren’t internationally competitive as they
couldn’t handle Mega Vessels. The Yangshan deep-water port has then been developed to provide enough
capacity to absorb the fast growing demand and to allow Shanghai port to compete internationally. The
entire project will take 15 years to complete and will provide a capacity of 25 million TEU.
Waigaoqiao Layout.
Berth Depth
(m)
Berth Length
(m)
Shanghai Container Terminal (SCT) 10 10-13 2.281
Waigaoqiao Port Area
Yangshan Port
Source: Shanghai Pudong International Container Terminal.
Throughput
capacity* ( TEU)
ZhangHuaBang 3 -12.5 784 500.000
JunGongLu 4 -10.5 857 1.000.000
BaoShan 3 -10.5 640 500.000
Waigaoqiao phase I 3 -12 900 900.000
Waigaoqiao phase 2 3 -13.2 900 600.000
Waigaoqiao phase 3 2 -13.2 680 400.000
Waigaoqiao phase 4 4 (+2) -14.2 1.250 1.000.000
Waigaoqiao phase 5 6 -12.8 1.290
Yangshan phase I 5 -15 1.600 2.200.000
Yangshan phase II 4 -15 1.400 2.500.000
The second phase of Yangshan deepwater port is expected to begin operations at the beginning of
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