The port is home to 40 shipping companies who have launched around 130 international container routes. There are 560 ships on call at Shenzhen port on a monthly basis and also 21 feeder routes to other ports in the Pearl River Delta region.[2] The Shekou Cruise Center provides ferry services across the Pearl River Delta to places such as Hong Kong, Macau, and Zhuhai; it replaced the Shekou Passenger Terminal in 2016.
History
Shenzhen's port system is currently the third largest port in China and one of the busiest container ports in the world, seeing traffic of 30,036,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) in 2022.[3] It was formerly the second largest port in China; however, it fell behind the Port of Ningbo-Zhoushan and has not recovered its position since.[4]
The many ports of Shenzhen are spread along Shenzhen's 260 kilometres (160mi) coastline. The ports are separated by the New Territories and the Kowloon Peninsula of Hong Kong into two areas: the eastern port and the western port.[2]
Shenzhen's western port area is located to the east of Lingdingyang in the Pearl River Estuary, consisting of a deep water harbor with natural shelters. The western port area is connected to the Pearl River region, with access to the cities and counties along the Pearl River, including Hong Kong and Guangzhou.[2]
The eastern port area is situated north of Mirs Bay (also known as Dapeng Bay), where the harbors are broad and calm; it is claimed to be the best natural harbor in South China.[2]
Infrastructure
The Port of Shenzhen consists of six ports: the Yantian and Dapeng port areas in the east, and the Nanshan, Dachan Bay, Dachan Island, Xiaochan Island, and Bao'an port areas in the west.[6]
It has a total of 140 berths, including: 51 berths for vessels with 10,000tonnes deadweight (DWT) and above; 90 operational berths, of which 43 are of 10,000DWT or above; 18 container berths; 9 consignee berths, of which 3 are of 10,000DWT or above; 18 passenger ferry berths; and 23 non-production berths.[2]
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