Yangshan Deepwater Port

Yangshan Deepwater Port

An upcoming water infrastructure project in China, the Yangshan Deepwater Port is connected to the world’s busiest port, the Shanghai Port. One of the main reason why the latter has helped China to become the world’s largest trader(and also the reason why many of the products you buy is Made in China) is Yangshan Port which has the capacity to harbour the world’s largest containers and can hold 12 million containers.

There is another interesting factor that the bridge connecting the port to the Donghai Bridge is the world’s longest sea bridge. This project has been developed as part of China’s economic reforms. It is the first “free-port” of the country. The following are the advantages from a Chinese website, Shinlang.com:

Advantage 1: -15 m water depth with the building of ports and waterways before. Yangshan Sea tide strong, not easy to drop sediment deposition, coastal waters, seabed and the basic stability of the past century.

Advantage 2: to ensure the ship's navigation and berthing safety. Port engineering solutions through the model test has repeatedly demonstrated that implementation of the project, after basically no impact on the natural conditions, can maintain the original water depth, and the size of the Yangshan Island chain, forming a natural barrier to mooring in good conditions.

Advantage 3: Engineering technical and economic feasibility. Engineering geological conditions of the waters of good and suitable for constructing the Hong Kong conditions; In addition, the building of long-distance cross-sea bridge in the world is also a precedent.

Advantage 4: Meet the world's law of development of the port out to sea. According to reports, the Yangshan Deepwater Port Area Master Plan to 2012 can be formed more than 10 kilometres deep-water coastline, arranged more than 30 berths, through capacity-more than 15 million standard containers. The works will include a port project, the East China Sea Bridge, the Luchaogang auxiliary supporting projects such as three parts.