In 2015, China's GDP was 676708 billion yuan, the growth rate continued to decline, 6.9%, and the total import and export of goods was 245741 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 7.0%. Affected by the slowdown in China's economic growth, the growth rate of China's port cargo throughput and container throughput has also slowed down significantly. In 2015, China's ports above designated size completed a cargo throughput of 11.43 billion tons, a year-on-year increase of 1.6%, of which the foreign trade cargo throughput was 3.59 billion tons, a year-on-year increase of 1.1%.
In 2015, China's ports above designated size completed a container throughput of 210 million TEU, a year-on-year increase of 4.1%, and the growth rate was 2.5 percentage points faster than the cargo throughput. Although the growth rate of container throughput has slowed down, the absolute increase has reached nearly 10 million TEU, which is also considerable.
According to the "2016-2020 China Port and Terminal Industry Investment Analysis and Prospect Forecast Report" released by CIC Advisory, in 2015, the world's top 10 container ports were Shanghai Port, Singapore Port, Shenzhen Port, Ningbo-Zhoushan Port, Hong Kong Port, Busan Port, Qingdao Port, Guangzhou Port, Dubai Port and Tianjin Port, of which 6 ports in Chinese mainland, and Shanghai Port continued to maintain its position as the world's first container port.
1. Major ports in the Bohai Rim region
In 2015, the total container throughput of major ports in the Bohai Rim region was 58.0502 million TEU, a year-on-year increase of 3.25%, and the growth rate was 3.04 percentage points lower than that in 2014, of which: the container throughput of Qinhuangdao Port, Tangshan Port and Huanghua Port grew rapidly, with a growth rate of more than 20%; The container throughput of the ports of Dalian and Jinzhou declined, both by more than 6%.
2. Major ports in the Yangtze River Delta region
In 2015, the major ports in the Yangtze River Delta region completed a total container throughput of 73.2678 million TEU, a year-on-year increase of 4.82%, and the growth rate was 0.72 percentage points faster than that in 2014, of which: Shanghai Port continued to maintain the world's first container port status with 36.537 million TEU, and the container throughput of Zhenjiang Port and Wenzhou Port declined.
3. Major ports in the southeast coastal area
In 2015, the total container throughput of major ports in the southeast coastal region was 13.6261 million TEU, a year-on-year increase of 7.32%, and the growth rate was 1.36 percentage points lower than that in 2014.
4. Major ports in the Pearl River Delta region
In 2015, the total container throughput of major ports in the Pearl River Delta region was 51,608,300 TEU, a year-on-year increase of 3.81%, and the growth rate was 1.75 percentage points lower than that in 2014, of which: the container throughput growth rate of Huizhou Port and Zhuhai Port exceeded 10%; The container throughput of Zhongshan, Maoming and Shantou ports all declined.
5. Major ports in the southwest coastal area
In 2015, the total container throughput of major ports in the southwest coastal area was 3.2813 million TEU, a year-on-year increase of 7.76%, and the growth rate was 8.42 percentage points lower than that in 2014, of which: the container throughput growth rate of Beibu Gulf Port reached 25.88%; The container throughput of Haikou Port declined.
6. The main port of the Yangtze River trunk line
In 2015, the main ports of the Yangtze River trunk line completed a total container throughput of 5.0343 million TEU, a year-on-year increase of 7.49%, of which: the fastest growth rate of container throughput was Ma'anshan Port, reaching 57.21%; The container throughput of the ports of Chongqing, Chizhou and Jiangyin declined.
In addition, there are more than 120 enterprises engaged in container terminal operations in China, with a total of more than 480 berths, with a berth design capacity of about 150 million TEU and a total coastline of about 122,900 m. According to the relevant statistics of the China Ports Association, in 2015, the total container throughput of China's major container terminals was about 163 million TEU, a year-on-year increase of 2.5%, accounting for about 77.62% of the container throughput of ports above designated size in China. From the perspective of 2015, the container throughput structure of China's major container terminals: the foreign trade container throughput was 109 million TEU, a year-on-year increase of 2.9%; The domestic trade container throughput was 53.634 million TEU, a year-on-year increase of 10.1%; The volume of sea-rail intermodal containers reached 763,900 TEU, a year-on-year increase of 28.7%; The volume of international transit containers reached 11.107 million TEU, a year-on-year increase of 4.6%; The volume of water transfer containers reached 35.62 million TEU, a year-on-year increase of 3%. In 2015, the adaptability of the capacity of China's major container terminals (terminal design passing capacity/actual completed throughput) was about 0.92.