Dreams come true in Shanghai and Tianjin
Last Monday, Shanghai celebrated the two giant vessels leaving for Kaohsiung in Taiwan at 10:45 am which was the first direct cross-Straits journey in almost 60 years. Fifteen minutes later, the Xin Yan Tai left Tianjin for Keelung.
“The first direct voyage across the Straits starts,” declared Shanghai Mayor Han Zheng at Yangshan Deepwater Port.
Ma Zehua, vice-president of China Shipping Group said the direct sea route will save cost and time for both sides of the Straits and strengthen their competitiveness.
The 8,500-TEU Xin Fei Zhou, of China Shipping, and the 4,500-TEU Yuan He, of COSCO, were two of the 20 ships that set sail across the Straits. Fifteen of them departed from six mainland cities and five from two Taiwan ports.
Because the sailing time of China Shipping and COSCO vessels was shorter than before, they reached Kaohsiung last Wednesday.
According to Sun Jianping, director of Shanghai municipal transport and port authority, the direct route from Shanghai to Kaohsiung is at least one-third shorter than the one ships use to transfer at Hong Kong or other hubs.
Wu Shuxiong from COSCO said a company could save at least $20,000 per ship each trip owing to the shorter route. That means they can save at least $1 million a year.
Huang Jianping, in Tianjin, a captain of Oceania, a COSCO ship that set sail to Kaohsiung last Monday afternoon, said a company would save about $7,500 and 16 hours per ship each trip. The Oceania reached Kaohsiung last Wednesday, too.
At least one cargo ship will set sail from Tianjin to Taiwan every week, according to COSCO President Li Shaode.
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