Zhoushan Bridge diverted Ningbo Port cargo throughput growth slowdown

At the end of last year the official opening of the Zhoushan Sea-crossing bridge, but just from the financial crisis gradually recovered from the Ningbo port (601018.　　SH) The increase in cargo throughput slowed down, as the roller-mounted buses that had been taking the waterway had mostly shifted to more recent roads.　　"First financial daily" Yesterday from the Ningbo PMB learned that, since the December 2009 Zhoushan Sea-crossing bridge was opened to traffic, has been about 77% of the rolling passenger transport to the road, resulting in Ningbo port cargo throughput growth will be significantly slowed this year. The data shows that the Zhoushan Sea-crossing bridge connecting Ningbo and Zhoushan is 48.16 kilometers in length and is the largest land transport project in the world. After the opening of the bridge, Ningbo and Zhoushan were reduced from two-hour drive to less than one hours. In this way, compared with the previous line of waterway transportation, the bridge has the advantage of convenient and fast.　　Therefore, the rolling transport trucks abandoned the water to change the road, resulting in the port of Ningbo, the throughput of the RO ship decreased.　　Ningbo's statistics show that the throughput of the Ningbo Port-ro vehicle was 24.71 million tonnes in the first 10 months of this year, compared with the 44.47 million tonnes completed in the same period last year, with a reduction of 19.76 million tonnes and a decrease of about 44% per cent. According to the traditional statistic method, the loading throughput is one of the important parameters to calculate the port cargo throughput.　　2009, Ningbo port area cargo throughput of 384 million tons, of which, rolling transport throughput completed 53.377 million tons, accounting for the total throughput of 13.91%.　　Therefore, according to the conservative estimate of the Hong Kong Airlines administration, if the rate of decline in the first 10 months of this year, the Ningbo port will reduce the annual rolling transport throughput of 23 million tons, resulting in a significant slowdown in port cargo throughput growth. "In the first half of this year, the port has a 9% increase in cargo throughput and is now only about 4% per cent."　　"Ningbo, an insider told the newspaper, if the Zhoushan cross-Sea bridge open goods vehicles, there will be more passenger and freight traffic to the road, which will affect the rolling transport throughput, and thus affect the annual port cargo throughput growth." The Ningbo port area mainly includes the Ningbo port and the Zhoushan port which just realized a share listing.　　2009, Ningbo port area cargo throughput of 384 million tons, an increase of 6.07%, ranked second in the coastal port, after the Shanghai port. Yesterday, Ningbo Port closed at 3.84 yuan, Rose 0.52%.