What are the challenges facing the future development of ports in Hebei province?

From January to July 2017, ports in Hebei Province completed cargo throughput of 630 million tons, up 18.2% year-on-year. Among them, Qinhuangdao Port completed 140 million tons of cargo throughput, up 38.9% year-on-year; Tangshan Port completed 330 million tons, up 14.6% year-on-year; and Huanghua Port completed 160 million tons, up 10.8% year-on-year.

So what are the challenges facing Hebei's port development in the future?

Siphon effect residual influence

Tianjin port as a hundred years of large ports, in the port around the port has formed a well-developed port industry and shipping supporting enterprises, whether from the port facilities, the construction of information platforms, such as hardware or from the collection of information on ships and cargoes and consulting, legal services, and other software conditions, have a considerable superiority. The advantages are considerable. Based on the consideration of the comprehensive transportation cost, especially the siphon effect formed over the years of inertia, it will continue to snatch a portion of the market share should belong to Hebei Province without objection.

Energy substitution

By 2019, the Bohai Sea ports will be 286 million tons of new coal transportation capacity than the end of 2014. Influenced by a series of factors such as economic structural adjustment, improvement of energy structure, and increased downward pressure on industry, China's coal demand has seen a reduction in the trend. Investment growth in the southeastern coastal region is changing from scale expansion to focusing on substance, real estate and infrastructure construction has slowed down, a large number of small thermal power, small cement and other high energy-consuming enterprises have been closed down, and the growth rate of electricity consumption has declined. In addition, China's clean energy accounted for an increase in the proportion of ultra-high voltage, hydropower speed, coastal thermal power pressure will be reduced, the demand for coal decline.

Environmental pressure

With China's government and the national environmental protection requirements of the increasing, for the main throughput cargo for energy and resources in most of the Hebei port, on the one hand, the need to invest in environmental protection in more costs to complete the requirements of management at all levels of environmental protection; on the other hand, but also on the process of port production, On the other hand, it also has a significant impact on port production process, efficiency and the formulation and fulfillment of port production targets. In particular, we rely on the heavy industry, iron and steel, cement, coal production capacity reduction, in constantly reducing the overall demand for ports.