Changjiang artery: Coal demand in the Yangtze River is still not flourishing

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Keywords Three Gorges coal demand coal supply coal transport
"At present, the Yangtze River freight does appear to increase, but the proportion of growth is small, there are signs of recovery, but the overall situation is relatively grim."  "July 14, the Ministry of Transport Yangtze River Shipping Bureau, the head of the Transportation department Chenliangsu to our correspondent. The data obtained by the reporter show that by the end of June, the Yangtze River volume of the largest cargo of metal iron ore, more than 100 million tons in the year, followed by coal, reached 95 million tons.  From May onwards, including mining materials, coal transport volume has risen. July 7, the Bureau of Statistics released this May of the entire social passenger and freight traffic, which water transport than a year earlier growth of 0.7%.  At present, the inland waterway shipping system mainly includes the Changjiang River system, Beijing Canal, Zhujiang River system and Heilongjiang water system.  As China's largest inland waterway shipping system, the Yangtze River is an important external transport channel, the Yangtze River Enterprises to produce 80% of iron ore, 83% of electric coal and a considerable share of oil transport rely on the Changjiang shipping security.  According to a person responsible for shipping data statistics told reporters that the Ministry of Communications earlier issued a regulation, starting from April to standardize the volume of river traffic statistics, so that the statistical scope of a larger change, the previous major statistics of the main trunk volume, now some of the tributaries of important ports into the statistical range. "There is no calculation of that part, including the Jialing River, Lancang River port, now to enter the statistical range." The data from these months can be seen to increase the amount of change, but because the region as a whole reported, not to add the volume of the new port, the specific number is due to the expansion of the scope of the increase in statistics, is still not known.  "The responsible shipping data statisticians told reporters.  According to data released by the Bureau of Statistics, this May, the whole society's water and passenger traffic volume of 264 million tons, a year earlier than the same month growth of 0.7%, that is, more than 1.85 million tons, so that waterway freight "positive."  Three Gorges over the dam volume rise if the Yangtze River shipping line than to do a pole, then, this pole balance point in the Three Gorges section of the river.  The Three Gorges Reach is located in the upper Yangtze River upstream joint department, it is the intersection of the country's central rise and the economic Development Strategy area of the West development, and its key navigable sections include Gezhouba Shiplock, Three Gorges two-line five lock, 3 port and 8 large anchorage, 104 berths, 4 bridges and 6 water traffic control zones.  Many ships on the Changjiang River have to pass through the Three Gorges Reservoir area, and the Three Gorges Gezhouba pass amount reflects the change of the Yangtze River freight volume to some extent.  According to the Three Gorges Dam data obtained by the reporter, the May Three Gorges Shiplock reached a record high, reaching more than 6 million tons, and fell back to 5 million tons in June, and the high volume of May was the contribution of the earthquake-stricken materials. "To help rebuild the area of cement, ore and steel, such as a large number of construction materials, in the past few months poured into the disaster areas, so that the May Three Gorges navigation volume reached a peak."  "One of the Three Gorges Navigation Bureau people told reporters. In fact, the dam has stabilized at 3 million tonnes in the first 3 months of this year, rising to more than 4 million tonnes in April and reaching a peak of 5 million tonnes in May.。 "The Three Gorges efficient navigation has always been a lever to support local economic development, with the average load tonnage of the gate ship increased year in, when through the amount of 90 million tons, upstream and downstream cargo turnover has exceeded the road transport capacity."  "The Three Gorges Navigation Bureau people told reporters.  After the completion of the construction period of the Three Gorges section of the year through the amount of breakthrough 30 million tons, 40 million tons and 50 million tons mark, by 2008 has exceeded billion tons.  Into the 2009, the Three Gorges operation of a number of navigation indicators fell year-on-year, freight volume is higher than last year, navigation indicators show "four drop a liter" characteristics, that is, Shing, passengers, a quota of tons of 4 indicators decline, loading freight tons rise. This reporter obtained the Three Gorges Dam data show that the first six months of this year, the Three Gorges container 3.4 million tons, 8.88 million tons of coal, mine construction materials 1 million tons, cement 1.9 million tons, grain and cotton 460,000 tons, fertilizer 560,000 tons, 1.5 million tons of oil, ore 4.08 million tons, steel 2.22 million tons.  Uplink volume increased 35.5% from a year earlier.  Inland waterway transport is generally the first coastal transport, such as coal from Qinhuangdao and other northern coal port shipment, by sea to Ningbo or Shanghai and other ports unloading, and then to the Yangtze River inland shipping to the Yangtze River coastal areas.  Part of the dry bulk turnover along the Yangtze River is settled in the basin, for example, the coal used in Hubei province usually comes from Sichuan and Henan.  BEIJING-Hangzhou Canal is also the main channel of inland waterway transportation, especially in recent years, Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal to large-scale dredging, annual commitment to East China coal supply. July 14, according to the Ministry of Transport's Water Transport Bureau rapid Statistics, after a rapid decline in stability, steady rebound three stages, the first half of the main port cargo throughput showed positive growth, a total of 2.64 billion tons, an increase of 0.5% per cent, continued a small steady rebound.  However, the foreign trade cargo throughput of 950 million tons, down 1.3% year-on-year.  According to the relevant people of the Water Transport Bureau, as the national economy has seen a steady pick-up, demand for commodities continues to rebound, coal, crude oil, metal ore, mining materials and other transport needs gradually warmer.  The first half of the year, the main port to unload imports of iron ore 310 million tons, an increase of 21.7% per cent, coal unloading 256 million tons, basically flat.  The data obtained by this reporter show that up to the end of June, the Yangtze River shipping for the most metal iron ore, the volume of more than 100 million tons, followed by coal, reached 95 million tons.  At present, the Inland river shipping partial market appears rebound, Sichuan, Chongqing, Hunan, Hubei, Jiangxi Province, the total amount of transportation is small increase, the volume of metal ore is relatively stable, a small higher trend. Since 2007, Changjiang Shipping Administration has begun compiling the Changjiang dry bulk freight index, which includes coal, metal ores, mineral materials and non-metallic ores.  According to the Long Aviation bureau in May this year, the Yangtze River dry bulk Freight Market Review, although the Yangtze River economy shows signs of stabilization, but the river along the coal demand is not flourishing, the Yangtze River Coal transport market is still low volatility. 2008In the second half of the year, the financial crisis caused the Yangtze River shipping has also been seriously affected, the main line of transport production growth continued to slow down, the Three Gorges Dam volume of the river monthly decline;
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