Europe and the United States and other major trading partners since the beginning of this year the economic situation is not optimistic, the greater impact on the growth of foreign trade container throughput of Chinas major coastal ports. The foreign trade weakness in the slowing of growth in port throughput. Order to mitigate the decline in export volume of the port operators, some ports are urged to enhance domestic throughput of unfavorable factors to offset the export decline.

　　Reporters learned from Fujian Xiamen Port Authority, the first five months of this year, the Hong Kong domestic box to complete the 556,000 TEUs, an increase of 16.4% is expected this years domestic box will be the first to break the one million TEUs, an international shipping center southeast container business in force.

　　According to the Xiamen Port Authority, since the international financial crisis, the worlds major ports in foreign trade container throughput fell significantly, Xiamen, Hong Kong quickly adjust strategies in adverse circumstances, and vigorously support the development of domestic container, continue to attract the domestic shipping business settled Xiamen Port, the domestic box as a development bright spot. Last year, more than 1800 domestic vessels operating in Xiamen Harbour vessels, domestic trade container throughput of 910,000 TEUs, compared with 2005, an increase of over 200%.

　　Another southeast of Chittagong, the port of Ningbo, Zhejiang, is to seize the favorable opportunity for countries to continue to expand domestic demand, strengthening the strategic cooperation with the domestic trunk shipping companies, the formation of echoes with north-south coastal ports and docking. Ningbo port and reasonable arrangements for all kinds of affiliated route, and by means of a set of cards the overall advantages of the fleet, ship freight forwarding booking platform, domestic container Extension rapidly developed into the north of Zhejiang, south of Zhejiang container transit the main force. Efforts to open up the domestic container market under the guidelines, in May, the Ningbo port to complete the domestic container throughput of 162,000 TEUs, an increase of 35.6%.

　　Look at the foreign trade center is located in Dongguan, Guangdong Humen Port goal is to create a domestic hub port in South China. Liang Zhicheng, Sinotrans Guangdong Co., Ltd., deputy general manager, said the company decided to Humen Port caused by domestic hub port, originated in a highly competitive environment of the Pearl River Delta ports, domestic demand is still climbing.

　　In fact, in the port logistics industry, the attempt of this kind of "trade promotion of foreign trade within the" since last year in some port companies implemented. In December 2011, Zhuhai, Guangdong Province to Dalian container shipping route was officially opened, which is the western part of the PRD region to the Northeast sea transport channel, marking the Zhuhai port north and south of the domestic container route network through comprehensive. Zhuhai, Hong Kong, said the opening of this route will accelerate the Zhuhai to Hong Kong to build the implementation of the strategy of domestic container transshipment port. As the largest port in the Pearl River Delta region, Shenzhen Yantian Port has also joined the battle this domestic airline market in recent years gradually opened Changping, Dongguan, Shaoguan, sea and railway transport, and other routes.

　　Domestic container, as a new mode of transport, in recent years in the coastal port development along the river is very rapid.Recently held in Yingkou, Liaoning, China-Hong Kong Association Container Branch Development Committee of domestic box-second five CHAIRMAN Liu Hunan, director of the Development Committee of the domestic box means that the development of Chinas domestic container used only a dozen years, from the first coastal several ports, the development of networks connected to the coast, along the river, the river almost all the ports like transportation, from the single port and port transport, the development of the sea iron, high seas, iron, River Jianghai a variety of modes of transport intermodal, domestic container has become an important component of Chinas container transportation and the development of world container.

　　He said, "expanding domestic demand, especially consumer demand is a fundamental foothold of Chinas economic long-term stable and rapid development is the focus of this years work. Domestic demand will dominate consumption, investment and exports Troika, demand-oriented economy, will affect the supply structure in China to promote the development of Chinas domestic port container transportation industry. Especially in the grim background of the foreign trade situation, the domestic container transport will become the new growth hot spots in the Chinese port industry.