英文导读

<正> Dear readers: Extremely high temperature is overwhelming large part of east coast of the country in July and August this year, the campaign for better understanding of "Law of Ports" sees even more highlighted. Ministry of Communications has timely held a special meeting in Shenzhen for deeply implementing of "Law of Ports" where Mr. Hong Shanxiang of Deputy Minister of MOC and Ms. Peng Cuihong, Deputy Director-General of Water Transportation Dept. of MOC gave a keynote speeches and relevant instructions. Mr. Su Xingang, Director-General of Water Transportation Dept. of MOC has also given a summary at the meeting. This issue publishes their speeches in attempt to properly consolidate implementation of "Law of Ports" by grassroots units. Our magazine will     

Reader's Guide

<正>Dear readers:Seasons going round, nevertheless the reform, openness and production at port industry across the country are continuously seen ever in-depth.At column of "Special Interview" this issue is an article entitled "Ports in China Seen Great Changes, and Their Trend of Future Development". The article reviews great progress achieved by ports and harbours in China since initiative of reform and openness, orienting future development. At column of "Special Edition", Mr. Mao     

Readers’Guide

<正>Dear readers,welcome to read this issue of ourjournal,Ports of China.At the 15th National Congress of the ChineseCommunist Party,an all-round and profound elucidationwas made on a series of important issues concerning thereforms and development in China.The Chinese economyis sure to greet a new round of massive development.Theports must seriously study the question of how to seize theopportunities.Mr.Che jinhe,director of the Rizhao PortAuthority of Shandong Province,Mr.Che Xiadong,director,and Mr.Chen Kongmei,from Taizhou PortAuthority of Zhejiang Province,aired their new views onthe development of their respective ports in their articles.(P6—9)     

Strengthening Cooperation Between Hong Kong and the Inland Areas in Communications,Mobilizing Hong Kong′s Functions as an International Shipping Center ——Press Interview With Mr.Huang Zhendong,Minister of Communications

<正>Now is a moment of nationwide joy and jubilanceas the date of Hong Kong’s returning to Chinesesovereignty draws nearer and nearer.On the afternoonof June 12,Mr.Huang Zhendong,Minister of Com-munications,in an interview with reporters,talked onseveral issues that are of great interest to the readingpublic,namely,how the inland areas and Hong Kongcan further strengthen their cooperation in the commu-nications sector and how the functions of Hong Kong asan international shipping center can be fully mobilizedafter Hong Kong comes back to her motherland.     

英文导读

<正> Dear readers: This issue of "China Ports & Harbours" is published in May ofbright-colored spring,that is concurrently at outbreak of SARS across thecountry and rest of the world.At both Columns of "Preface" and "Break-ing News" we publish notice and action by Ministry of Communica-tions in combating against SARS.This reflects a message that port busi-ness in China is consistently pursuing production and construction withpriority given to combating SARS.This status is also referred at Column of"Statistics of Ports And Harbours".     

基于模拟减少集装箱船待港时间的实用方法(英文)

The main challenge for container ports is the planning required for berthing container ships while docked in port.Growth of containerization is creating problems for ports and container terminals as they reach their capacity limits of various resources which increasingly leads to traffic and port congestion.Good planning and management of container terminal operations reduces waiting time for liner ships.Reducing the waiting time improves the terminal’s productivity and decreases the port difficulties.Two important keys to reducing waiting time with berth allocation are determining suitable access channel depths and increasing the number of berths which in this paper are studied and analyzed as practical solutions.Simulation based analysis is the only way to understand how various resources interact with each other and how they are affected in the berthing time of ships.We used the Enterprise Dynamics software to produce simulation models due to the complexity and nature of the problems.We further present case study for berth allocation simulation of the biggest container terminal in Iran and the optimum access channel depth and the number of berths are obtained from simulation results.The results show a significant reduction in the waiting time for container ships and can be useful for major functions in operations and development of container ship terminals.     

Amsterdam European Gateway to World Trade——An interview with Hans Gerson, President and CEO, Amsterdam Port Authority

With the development of eco nomic and trade relations between China and Europe, more and more European ports become familiar to Chinese customers. As one of the most important gateways in the EU, the Port of Amsterdam, the sparkling pearl centered on North Sea Canal, is now attracting more and more attention from all over the world. In 2002 Amsterdam Ports again achieved record transshipments of over 70 million tons. After Hamburg, Amsterdam is the fastest growing port complex in northwest Europe. The Port of Amsterdam is currently 17th in world rankings and 4th in Western Europe. In the forthcoming 51th anniversary of     

集装箱货运仿真模型在珠三角港港口投资方案评估(英文)

In the Pearl River Delta (PRD), there is severe competition between container ports, particularly those in Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and Guangzhou, for collecting international maritime container cargo. In addition, the second phase of the Nansha terminal in Guangzhou’s port and the first phase of the Da Chang Bay container terminal in Shenzhen opened last year. Under these circumstances, there is an increasing need to quantitatively measure the impact these infrastructure investments have on regional cargo flows. The analysis should include the effects of container terminal construction, berth deepening, and access road construction. The authors have been developing a model for international cargo simulation (MICS) which can simulate the movement of cargo. The volume of origin-destination (OD) container cargo in the East Asian region was used as an input, in order to evaluate the effects of international freight transportation policies. This paper focuses on the PRD area and, by incorporating a more detailed network, evaluates the impact of several infrastructure investment projects on freight movement.     

第十一届国际水动力学会议(ICHD2014)(英文)

<正>19–24 October 2014 Singapore CONFERENCE THEMES The overall aim of the ICHD Conference is to provide a forum for participants from around the world to review,discuss and present the latest developments in the broad discipline of hydrodynamics and fluid mechanics.The first International Conference on Hydrodynamics(ICHD)was initiated in 1994 in Wuxi,China.Since then,9more ICHD conferences were held subsequently in Hong Kong,Seoul,Yokohama,Tainan,Perth,Ischia,Nantes,Shanghai and St Petersburg.Evidently the ICHD conference has become an important event among academics,     

Shipping News

Xiamen being built into a large port The output of Xiamen port in 1995 came to 13.14m tons and 0.31m TEUs,a 15.2% rise and a 37.8% growth compared with 1995 respectively.It has ranked the fifth place among the ports nationwide and become a class one port of the state. The next five—year plan of xiamen is aiming at a megaport of the state.The target for 1996 is to achieve 15m tons in cargo handling and 0.4TEUs in container capacity.In order to realize     

Reader's Guide

<正>Dear readers:At season's harvest of golden autumn we are delighted to publish this issue of "China Ports " with witness of flourishing port business across the country.At such an exiting circumstance how to maintain this healthy momentum is ev-erybody's concern, we therefore compile an array of stories in this respect. The solu-tion proves unique, that's to apply developmental point of view to instructing and     

The llth International Conference on Hydrodynamics （ICHD 2014）

CONFERENCE THEMESThe overall aim of the ICHD Conference is to provide a forum for participants from around the world to review, discuss and present the latest developments inthe broad discipline of hydrodynamics and fluid mechanics.The first International Conference on Hydrodynamics （ICHD） was initiated in 1994 in Wuxi, China. Since then, 9 more ICHD conferences were heldsubsequently in Hong Kong, Seoul, Yokohama, Tainan, Perth, Ischia, Nantes, Shanghai and St Petersburg. Evidently the ICHD conference has become animportant event among academics, researchers, engineers and operators, working in the fields closely related to the science and technology of hydrodynamics.The 1 lth ICHD will be held in Singapore in 2014.     

The 11th International Conference on Hydrodynamics (ICHD 2014)

正19–24 October 2014 SingaporeCONFERENCE THEMES The overall aim of the ICHD Conference is to provide a forum for participants from around the world to review,discuss and present the latest developments in the broad discipline of hydrodynamics and fluid mechanics.The first International Conference on Hydrodynamics(ICHD)was initiated in 1994 in Wuxi,China.Since then,9 more ICHD conferences were held subsequently in Hong Kong,Seoul,Yokohama,Tainan,Perth,Ischia,Nantes,Shanghai and St Petersburg.Evidently the ICHD conference has become an important event among academics,researchers,engineers and operators,working in the fields closely related to the science and technology of hydrodynamics.The 11th ICHD will be held in Singapore in 2014.     

Eastbound or westbound ?

In terms of equal sailing distances, where is the inflexion when ships depart from ports in the Asian Continent to New York via Suez and/or Panama？
The answer is China South Port Group （Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Guangzhou）.     

Shipping News

BOX traffic boom in Changjiang region The container transport along the Changjiang River is developing rapidly. According to Shanghai port statistics,container lines initiated from the Changjiang ports to Shanghai has amounted to 11 with 21,000 TEU monthly volume, one times that of the last same period. The rapid development has attracted quite a lot of cornpanies to engage in cornpetition. Up to now,80％of total 150 domestic international lines set up cargo agencies at the Changjiang ports. Moreover, the container boom gives an impetus to the construction, rebudding and expansion for the transport facilities of the Changjiang ports. Additionally, the transhiprnent statiorls in the hinterland of the ports and along the major highways are being established along with the boom.     

Reader＇s Guide

<正>Dear readers: Golden autumn of October suggests a harvest season and vitality in port business as well.Agreat number of ports and harbours across the country have actively made their contributions to ourMagazine in attempt to reflect their business achievements.Unfortunately we are unable to publishall articles,instead,we selectly release the information of break-through traffic records includingcontainers by port of Shenzhen that is really inspirative.We actively prospect overwhelmingly busi-ness situation in port industry in the country.     

中国港口基础设施建设中的问题及其当务之急

The 1990s have witnessed a dramatic surge ahead in China' s port infrastructure construction with several Chinese ports registering as some of the fastest growing in the world at the present time, However, the pace of development is so rapid and centred on so many different ports that there are fears that the pendulum may be swinging in the other direction, Questions are now being raised about whether container handling capacity now exceeds demand by too wide a margin.     

Model and algorithm for container ship stowage planning based on bin-packing problem

In a general case, container ship serves many different ports on each voyage. A stowage planning for container ship made at one port must take account of the influence on subsequent ports. So the complexity of stowage planning problem increases due to its multi-ports nature. This problem is NP-hard problem. In order to reduce the computational complexity, the problem is decomposed into two sub-problems in this paper. First, container ship stowage problem （CSSP） is regarded as “packing problem”, ship-bays on the board of vessel are regarded as bins, the number of slots at each bay are taken as capacities of bins, and containers with different characteristics （homogeneous containers group） are treated as items packed. At this stage, there are two objective functions, one is to minimize the number of bays packed by containers and the other is to minimize the number of overstows. Secondly, containers assigned to each bays at first stage are allocate to special slot, the objective functions are to minimize the metacentric height, heel and overstows. The taboo search heuristics algorithm are used to solve the subproblem. The main focus of this paper is on the first subproblem. A case certifies the feasibility of the model and algorithm.     

英文导读

<正>Dear readers:This issue is prioritized to pursue the spirit of " Sixteenth Party' s Congress" by publishing in the column of "Port Reform" some articles dedicated to objects of port reform. Those articles mostly disclose varied modes of reforms applicable to individual entities that prove a profound enlightening to those still under processing of reform. In addition, the articles also reveal some difficulties and problems they have experienced in the reform. Our readers could think about that and put forward suggestions.     

采用沿岸动力概念以减少埃及红海海域高速船燃料消耗与降低排放(英文)

The progress of economic globalization,the rapid growth of international trade,and the maritime transportation has played an increasingly significant role in the international supply chain.As a result,worldwide seaports have suffered from a central problem,which appears in the form of massive amounts of fuel consumed and exhaust gas fumes emitted from the ships while berthed.Many ports have taken the necessary precautions to overcome this problem,while others still suffer due to the presence of technical and financial constraints.In this paper,the barriers,interconnection standards,rules,regulations,power sources,and economic and environmental analysis related to ships,shore-side power were studied in efforts to find a solution to overcome his problem.As a case study,this paper investigates the practicability,costs and benefits of switching from onboard ship auxiliary engines to shore-side power connection for high-speed crafts called Alkahera while berthed at the port of Safaga,Egypt.The results provide the national electricity grid concept as the best economical selection with 49.03 percent of annual cost saving.Moreover,environmentally,it could achieve an annual reduction in exhaust gas emissions of CO2,CO,NOx,P.M,and SO2by 276,2.32,18.87,0.825 and 3.84 tons,respectively.