{"id":201,"date":"2020-09-28T11:32:57","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T03:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/?p=201"},"modified":"2020-09-28T11:32:58","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T03:32:58","slug":"largest-roll-on-roll-off-passenger-harbor-begins-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/largest-roll-on-roll-off-passenger-harbor-begins-operation.html","title":{"rendered":"Largest roll-on, roll-off passenger harbor begins operation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The country&#8217;s largest roll-on, roll-off passenger harbor started operation at Xuwen port area of Zhanjiang, Guangdong province, on Saturday, halving the travelling time to the island province of Hainan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"767\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/09\/1618272_hnrbtp1_1601132462307_s.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/09\/1618272_hnrbtp1_1601132462307_s.jpg 767w, https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/09\/1618272_hnrbtp1_1601132462307_s-300x172.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 100vw, 767px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The newly launched Nanshan operation area in Xuwen has 16 roll-on-roll-off berths for passenger or cargo transport, as well as a berth for hazardous goods, capable of accommodating vessels of up to 5,000 dead weight tons each.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With investment of about 2 billion yuan ($293.2 million), the project has designed capacity of moving 3.2 million vehicles and 17.28 million passengers a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shipping distance between Xuwen and Haikou, capital of Hainan, is shortened by half to 12 nautical miles and traveling time to over an hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project significantly boosts transport capacity across Qiongzhou Strait and interconnectivity between provinces of Guangdong and Hainan, said Li Jing, director of Guangdong provincial department of transport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is set to promote the exchanges between the provinces in logistics, trade, industries and people, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project marks a new milestone in Zhanjiang&#8217;s serving national strategies such as Hainan Free Trade Port, said Zheng Renhao, Party secretary of Zhanjiang.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He pledged continued efforts in building supporting facilities and enhancing management and services at Xuwen port area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source\uff1achinadaily<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>to promote the exchanges between the provinces in logistics, trade, industries and people<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203,"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions\/203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}