The shipping volume of the Three Gorges has nearly 75 million tons this year

The reporter learned from the Three Gorges Group today (June 25) that as of yesterday, the Three Gorges ship gates had a total of nearly 5,000 gates this year, nearly 20,000 ships through ships, and nearly 75 million tons of shipping volume over the gate, setting the highest record in the same period in the same period.

The completion and water storage of the Three Gorges Project fundamentally changed the conditions for shipping in the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and realized the day and night navigation of the Yangtze River throughout the year. The Three Gorges ship gate is currently the world's largest, the largest continuous, the highest level, the highest water head, and the most complicated operating conditions. Since the opening of ships to the society on June 18, 2003, a total of 183,000 yards have been operated, with 954,000 ships and 12.24 million passengers through ships.

Li Weixiong, engineer of the Pubs Management Department of the Three Gorges Group Basin Hub: In recent years, in order to fully improve the Three Gorges Navigation service capabilities, we have adopted upstream and downstream to add ship facilities to optimize the operating parameters of the gate valve, the innovation and optimization of the operation control operation technology In other series of measures, the operational efficiency of the Three Gorges Bart has steadily improved, becoming an important logistics channel for serving the economic development along the river.

According to navigation data, the year of the Three Gorges ship has exceeded the 100 million tons mark in 2011, and reached the design passing ability 19 years in advance; last year exceeded 146 million tons, a record high of history, and the highest annual cargo volume of the river before the Three Gorges Project was completed. More than 10,000 times. Over the past 19 years, a total of 1.76 billion tons of shipping volume has been passed. All the goods can be over 70 million 40 -foot container containers.

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