The Overall Planning (2035) for Qingdao Port has recently garnered joint approval from the Ministry of Transport and Shandong provincial government. Based on reality, the new planning for Qingdao Port fully upholds China’s regional development strategy and puts forward an overall development pattern of “one bay, two wings and six harbour districts”. In specific words, Qingdao Port will plan to seek development across Jiaozhou Bay, Dongjiakou in the southern wing and Aoshan Bay in the northern wing, and comprise six harbour districts, namely, Laogang, Huangdao, Qianwan, Haixi Bay, Dongjiakou and Aoshan Bay. According to the plan, the aggregate traffic capacity will double from now to more than 800 million tons.

Qianwan harbour district will accelerate efforts to push ahead with the container upgrading program with a total investment of RMB16.8 bln in a bid to become a leading container handling hub in Northeast Asia. Dongjiakou harbour district will take solid steps to begin faster the construction of key projects with a total investment of over RMB31 bln, including a general-purpose terminal in the operating area of Langyatai Bay and a container terminal at the southern part of Langyatai Bay. After these projects are completed, new traffic capacity of 130 million tons and 11.6 million TEUs will be added annually, paving a solid foundation for building another “Qingdao Port”.

In the future, Qingdao Port will continue to pivot faster from a logistics port to a pivotal port, a trading port, a financial-savvy port and a digitally enabled port in an effort to further shore up its competitiveness as an international shipping center. (Zhou Jianliang)

A hive of activity in Qingdao Port of Shandong Port Group.