Recently, the Xiangtan Port Master Plan (2035) (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan") was approved by the provincial government. According to the plan, Xiangtan Port will plan four port areas in the future, with an estimated freight capacity of nearly 100 million tons.
Since ancient times, Xiangtan has been known as "Little Nanjing" because of its natural inland river shipping conditions and developed water transport. Up to now, Xiangtan Port has 8 cargo wharfs, 3 sand and gravel distribution center base wharfs and 22 berths, including 5 berths of 2000 tons and 17 berths of 1000 tons, occupying 2250 meters of cargo shoreline (excluding 14 general wharfs to be transferred to passenger transport). At present, the port mainly transports dry bulk cargo such as coal, iron ore and general cargo such as steel.
The Plan clearly States that, according to administrative divisions and considering the port foundation and continuity, Xiangtan Port will plan four port areas in the future, of which Tieniubu Port Area and Jiuhua Port Area are the core port areas, Yisuhe Port Area is an important port area, and Xiangxiang Port Area is a general port area, which will cover freight operation areas, freight ports, passenger transport and support system ports. There are 7 operation areas (4 in Xiangtan section of Xiangjiang River and 3 in Lianshui), 5 cargo ports, 82 cargo berths of 1000 tons and above (including 22 existing berths, 43 new berths of 3000 tons and 17 berths of 1000 tons), 17 passenger ports (2 reserved, 15 new berths) and 17 supporting system ports (4 reserved). 13 new places). The overall freight capacity will be nearly 100 million tons to meet the future development needs of Xiangtan Port.
In addition, the development of Xiangtan Port will dig deep into the tourism resources along the Xiangjiang River and Lianshui River, and according to the distribution and development potential of regional tourism resources, plan to build three excellent water tourism routes, namely, waterfront cultural tour around the bay, Xiangxiang cultural vacation tour and Shuifumiao ecological leisure tour, with a total of 17 passenger transport ports planned, of which 3 are comprehensive service centers for water passenger transport. There are 5 passenger terminals and 9 passenger stops. The responsible person
of Xiangtan Transportation Bureau said that in the future, Xiangtan Port will develop into a comprehensive port area with metal ore, coal, steel, equipment manufacturing, automobile roll-on and roll-off, container and other transportation as the main part, taking into account the water passenger transport tourism, forming a public wharf as the main part, focusing on the development of public transport service-oriented comprehensive port area, and promoting the development of public transport. We will actively expand comprehensive, modern and intelligent ports with intermodal transport functions such as coal, metal ore and steel.