A few days ago, with Xiamen Jiuhua Shipping Co., Ltd.'s "Jiuhua Fighting" ship obtaining the "Ship Business Transport Certificate", the scale of Xiamen's shipping capacity exceeded 5 million dwt for the first time (up to 5.04 million dwt, a year-on-year increase of 20%), ranking firmly in the The forefront of the province. Shipping capacity is one of the important indicators of shipping elements in building an international shipping center. Strengthening and expanding the scale of shipping capacity will effectively lay the foundation for the high-quality development of Xiamen Port.
Since the beginning of this year, Xiamen Port has actively served and integrated into the new development pattern, playing the "international first-class business environment card", taking multiple measures to break through many difficult and blocked points in production and operation, market expansion, and service guarantee, focusing on changing "the port is strong and the shipping is weak" In order to overcome the situation, we will make efforts in multiple directions to introduce high-quality airlines, enhance the strength of local shipping, expand the fleet of ships, and continuously strengthen market competitiveness.
According to the data, as of the end of May this year, the scale of the city's shipping companies ranks among the top in the province: 92 domestic waterway freight companies, a year-on-year increase of 15%, 288 freight ships, with a total capacity of 5.04 million deadweight tons, a year-on-year increase of 20%; waterway passenger transport companies There are 13 companies and 85 passenger ships, with a total of 19,600 passenger seats, a year-on-year increase of 0.65%.
Consolidate the "stock" of existing advantages, and accelerate investment promotion to increase "increment". Through actively going global, Xiamen Port has "joined hands" with well-known domestic enterprises. Anhui Chizhou Jiuhua Shipping Co., Ltd. and Tianjin Changming Shipping Group have successively settled in Xiamen. In the past six months, 6 ships with a total capacity of 450,000 dwt have been put into operation in Xiamen .
In January of this year, the "Several Measures of Xiamen Port Administration on Accelerating the Development of Water Transport Business" came into effect, providing more substantial support to water transport companies registered in our city to increase ship capacity and improve ship turnover efficiency, effectively promoting The scale of shipping capacity in our city has increased, the structure of shipping capacity has been optimized, and the turnover of waterway transportation has increased.