| Information and contact details for Port of Fangcheng in Fangcheng, Guangxi - China Fangchenggang Port Located in the very south west of the coast line of China, Fangchenggang Port is one of the 25 main sea ports in China. It is the largest port in West China and serves as the main sea passage for the Great Southwest China to connect the Asean area and the world. A． Port Statue: Fangchenggang Port now has 28 productive ports, including 14 with designed dwt over 10000 tons each. The output in 2005 is over 20 million metric tons. The shipments in Fangcheng Port are distinguished in: 1) Most cargo are of international trade, over 85% of the output 2) Most cargo is from or to the Great Southwest China, over 80% of the output 3) Most cargo are large quantity of bulk or general cargo, including iron ore, phosphate powder, barite, sulphur, alumina powder, coal, steel products, fertilizer and industrial salt, etc. But with the development of the container shipments, the percentage of the container cargo is also growing up. from or to the Great Southwest China, over 80% of the output The actual handling capacity of Fangchenggang Port surpasses 25 million mts per year. The handling capacity of container berth (berth 10) reaches 25,000 TEU annually. Special purpose berths for mineral, grain; bean, cement, woodchip, fertilizer, oil/gas, sulphur and coal have been built or are under construction. Fangchenggang Port has high ability to load/discharge, store and transfer many kinds of cargo. B．Port Service: The Fangcheng Port (Group) Co. Ltd. is a large port group enterprise serves for cargo loading/discharging, storage, cargo forwarding, tally, passenger transfer, pilotage, tuggage, road transportation, cargo delivery, machineries rentage/repair, bunker, port construction and real estate The authority is deepening the service into a higher level, including: 1) High efficient Door To Door liner service for container and bulk cargo, both international and domestic. 2) To meet the client's need, direct train transportation, road Door To Door transportation, sea-land combined road and railway transportation have been conducted. C. Traffic condition: Fangcheng Port is close to Guizhou Province and Sichuan Province in the North, close to Yunnan Province in the West, close to Guangdong Province, Hainan Province, Hong Kong and Macau in the East, facing the Beibu Gulf in the South. It is the key point to connect our great Southwest China, which is rich in recourses, to the Southeast Asia, whose economy is enlivening. The sea and land transportation are both convenient for Fangcheng Port. The Nanning-Fangcheng expressway reaches Fangchenggang Port, which connect the road to the Southwest China and the road transportation net of the whole China. By Nanning-Fangcheng railway and Litang-Qinzhou railway, Fangcheng Port also connects the railway net of the whole country. What need to mention is that the Nanning-Kunming railway, Shuicheng-Boguo railway and Neijiang-Kunming railway all reach Fangchenggang Port which are constructive for the cargo transportation. Fangchenggang Port has domestic route to Zhujiang Delta Economic Area, Changjiang Delta Economic Area and the Economic Area around Bohai Gulf. Fangcheng Port has sea route to over 220 ports, belong to over 70 countries and regions all over the world. The container route of Fangcheng covers direct route to the Southeast Asia, the North East Asia, the Mid East, the Europe, the West of America, the East of Europe, Macau and Hong Kong. Fangchengport also has the public express container route of Fangchenggang-Shekou/Chiwan-the whole world. D. Geographical Position: Located in the north of Beibu Gulf, in the south of Guangxi Province, with Longitude 21 37' 56'' N, latitude 108 21'13'' E. The water area of Fangchenggang Port is surrounded by hills in 3 sides, just like an inland lake and it is good for wind sheltering. The channel is not long, the port sea area and port land are wide, and the useful coast line are long. Fangchenggang Port is of superior geographical position and high strategic condition. E. Natural Condition: 1. Climate Temperature: The annual average temperature is 22.5(deg. C). The annual extreme high temperature is 36.5(deg. C). The maximum temperature mostly happens in July when the average is 27.6(deg. C)-29.1(deg. C). The annual extreme low temperature is 2.8(deg. C), mostly appears in the end of winter and beginning of spring. Rainfall: About 71% of rainfall is in June to September. The annual maximum rainfall is 3,111.9mm and the minimum is 1,745.6mm, the annual average rainfall is 2,362.6mm. Daily maximum rainfall reaches 244.1 mm. In one year, there are about 26.5 days with average daily rainfall 25mm. In one year, there are averagely 85.2 days with thunderstorm. Wind: The normal wind direction is North North East, about 30.5% for one year. 8.4% are West South. 4.7% are east strong wind. The wind force is normally not strong inside the port area because the sea area is surrounded by hills. The average annual wind speed is 5m/s, the highest speed reaches 20m/s. The tropical storm comes once per year in average n 3 times per year at most, which appeared in June to September mostly and the wind force can reach grade 8 to grade 10. The strong wind normally last for half day or one day, at most 2 days. Fog: Foggy days are rare, about 10 days in a year in average. It recorded 23 days of foggy days in maximum in a year and 4 days in minimum. Fog normally appear in the evening or early morning in the end of winter and the beginning of spring. Dense fog seldom appears. The morning fog normally last 2-3 hours and will disperse in sunrise. 2. Hydrology Tide: Irregular mixed semi-diurnal tide. Averagely, neap tide comes forth for 6-8 days and the other days come regular diurnal tide per month. The grand tide and mid tide are both regular diurnal tide and the neap tide is irregular semi-diurnal tide. In the period of the diurnal tide, the highest tide rises up to 5.54m; the average high tide reaches 3.82m, maximum tide difference is 5.39m, and the average tide difference is over 4.5m. The tide rising period lasts 15 hours and the tide falling period lasts 9 hours, which is good for the channel dredging. In the period of the semidiurnal tide, the tidal range is less than 1 m; the lowest tide is 0.79m. The tide last 2 hours in one year record: 2.8m, 338 days. 3m, 315 days. 3.5m, 251 days. 4m, 140 days. 4.5m, 28 days. Tideway: The sea current in Fangchenggang Port is constituted and affected by the sea tide, river current and wind current. The river names Fangcheng River, which affects the sea current in typhoon period for several days and it affects the sea current slightly in normal days. The sea tide governs the sea current. When the tide rises, the current speed is slow with maximum speed 0.4-0.6m/second. When the tide falls, the current speed is higher with maximum speed 0.6-0.9m/second. The reversing current direction fits the channel direction mostly except there is anticlockwise rotary current near the Sanya light house outside the channel entrance. Wave: With the Qisha Peninsula in the east and Jiangshan Bailong Peninsula in the west, the sea water in port area normally appears calm. There are wave with grade 4-5 in typhoon period in July to September but appeared not often. The normal average wave height is 0.5 m; normal direction is North East, 21% in a year. 16.4% towards South East. 15.4% towards South and 12.8% towards North East. Rough sea is towards South South West. The secondary rough sea is towards South East. The highest wave height can be 7 m in storm. F. Hinterland: With the operations of Nanning-Kunming railway, the cargo from Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Guangxi and Chongqing can be transported to Fangchenggang Port and then to be carried there to the world. The direct hinterland of Fangchenggang Port is Fangchenggang City, Qinzhou City, the south area by Hongshui River along Nanning-Kunming Railway inside Guangxi Province, Baise, Nanning, the southwest area of Nanning Region. The indirect hinterland is the other area in Guangxi Province, the whole Yunnan Province, Guizhou Province, Sichuan Province, the southwest area of Chongqing Municipality and the west part of the Mid China. In the said direct hinterland, there are rich resources like farming, forestry and sea products and minerals. In the indirect hinterland, the mineral reserves are even famous; more than 50 kinds of minerals are listed top 10 in China. Abundant cargoes are transported to and from the hinterland incessantly. G. Development Prospect. In recent years, Fangchenggang Port continues to build specific berths, warehouse, loading/discharging lines and the facilities for cargo processing, bagging, delivering and information handling. Now berth 13-17 is under construction, with designed dwt 50,000 mts-70,000 mts each. A 200,000-tonnage-berth is partly into use, in which many cape size vessels have conducted lightening. The lightening capacity reaches 20,000mt per day. The port construction promotes the trade and logistics in Fangchenggang Port. The business of sugar, edible oil, soybean, phosphate and sulphur products, fertilizer, barite and iron ore are abundant. The markets of wholesale, retail and deliver of the sugar, edible oil, metal mineral and nonmetal mineral have appeared preliminarily. The pattern of Cargo yard + Cargo Market is into reality. The main sea gate for the Great Southwest China is becoming wider and wider. |
