(Athens, 4th) From the port of Piraeus in Greece to the port
of Zeebrugge in Belgium, from the port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands to the
port of Helsinki in Finland, a large quantity of goods imported from China are
unloaded and exported to China. The whole set sails... A route paves the 21st
century Maritime Silk Road, linking Europe to China's unprecedented closeness.
The Xinhua News Agency reported that in the port of Piraeus
in the northwest of Athens, the Greek language means "to guard the passage
of the channel", and its unique geographical location can be seen. Today,
Greece's important international logistics transit hub strategy is in line with
China's “One Belt, One Road” initiative. China and Greece are making efforts to
make the port of Hong Kong an important container transshipment port, sea-land
intermodal hub and international logistics distribution center for Central
Europe. The Sea Express and the construction of the “Belt and Road” play an
important pivotal role.
On the 28th of last month, the Greek speaker, Wu Qisi, went
to Hong Kong for inspections in spite of the rare hurricane weather. The
director of COSCO Shipping, Hong Kong, said that the investment in COSCO
Shipping has exceeded 1 billion euros and directly created more than 3,000
jobs. Indirectly create more than 10,000 jobs.
Belgian borders on the northwestern part of Europe The port
of Zeebrugge is located on the shores of the North Sea, radiating the
Hamburg-Le Havre area, across the sea from the UK, and the terminal connects
the rail and road transport network to other European countries.
At the end of 2017, COSCO Ocean acquired the Zeebrugge terminal
in full, introduced strategic investors to the terminal in 2018, and planned to
build a diversified logistics service platform through the cooperation with the
Zeebrugge Port Authority to serve the whole of Europe Mainland and British
Islands.
Create a mutually
beneficial and win-win path
Not far from the port of Zeebrugge, in the estuary of the
intersection of the New Maas and the Old Maas River, the tributary of the Rhine
in the Netherlands, there are terminals, bridges, yards and workshops with a
total length of nearly 50 kilometers. This is the largest port in Europe. Port
of Rotterdam. More than 400 years ago, it was a prosperous business. The Dutch
merchant ship set sail from here and opened up the trade route to the East,
which made the Dutch "Golden Age" brilliant.
Located at the intersection of the "Land Silk
Road" and the "Maritime Silk Road", the Port of Rotterdam has a
unique advantage in the construction of the "Belt and Road".
In the past five years, the container throughput of the Port
of Rotterdam has been growing steadily. One-fourth of the inbound cargo is from
China. Nearly half of China's deep-water freight routes to Europe have chosen
Rotterdam Port as the first stop to stop in Chengdu - Tilburg - Rotterdam
Central Europe The dedicated line has been opened for 3 years and is now open 3
times a week, with a full load rate of 70%.
Helsinki, the capital of Finland, used to be blocked by the
Arctic and has little to do with the distant East. Nowadays, COSCO Ocean's new
generation of cargo ships are continuously transporting pulp and forest products
from Scandinavia to China.
Finland is the world's largest exporter of softwood pulp. In
the first seven months of this year, it exported 770,000 tons of pulp to China,
accounting for about one-third of its total pulp exports. In order to meet
market demand, COSCO Shipping Group has added a number of multi-purpose ice
class vessels since last year. The "Tian En" round that was launched
last year has been filled with pulp in Finland on September 29 to take the
Arctic Northeast Passage. It will become the only Chinese freighter with
two-way access to the Arctic route this year.
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