Chiwan ( Chinese : 赤湾 ; Cantonese: Chik Wan ) is a bay area surrounded by Chiwan hill at the east, Xiaonanshan hill at the north, and Ying Zui hill at the southeast, in Nanshan district, Shenzhen , China .
11-541: Chiwan Port ( 赤湾港 ) or Chiwan Container Terminal ( 赤湾集装箱码头 ) is part of the Port of Shenzhen . CCT is a sino-foreign joint venture company invested by Chiwan Wharf Holdings Limited, Kerry Properties (HK) Limited, China Merchants Holdings (International) Co., Ltd and Modern Terminal Limited (Modern Terminals). The port of Chiwan is used by ships for crew changes , especially container ships , bulk carriers , OSVs - offshore supply and support vessels and off shore craft involved in
22-414: Is a measure of a vessel's weight carrying capacity, not including the empty weight of the ship. It is distinct from the displacement (weight of water displaced), which includes the ship's own weight, or the volumetric measures of gross tonnage or net tonnage (and the legacy measures gross register tonnage and net register tonnage ). Deadweight tonnage was historically expressed in long tons , but
33-417: Is a measure of how much weight a ship can carry. It is the sum of the weights of cargo , fuel, fresh water , ballast water , provisions, passengers, and crew . DWT is often used to specify a ship's maximum permissible deadweight (i.e. when it is fully loaded so that its Plimsoll line is at water level), although it may also denote the actual DWT of a ship not loaded to capacity. Deadweight tonnage
44-664: Is now usually given internationally in tonnes (metric tons). In modern international shipping conventions such as the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea and the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution From Ships , deadweight is explicitly defined as the difference in tonnes between the displacement of a ship in water of a specific gravity of 1.025 (corresponding to average density of sea water of 1,025 kg/m or 1,728 lb/cu yd) at
55-1013: Is situated north of Mirs Bay (also known as Dapeng Bay), where the harbors are broad and calm; it is claimed to be the best natural harbor in South China. The Port of Shenzhen consists of six ports: the Yantian and Dapeng port areas in the east, and the Nanshan , Dachan Bay, Dachan Island , Xiaochan Island, and Bao'an port areas in the west. It has a total of 140 berths, including: 51 berths for vessels with 10,000 tonnes deadweight (DWT) and above; 90 operational berths, of which 43 are of 10,000 DWT or above; 18 container berths; 9 consignee berths, of which 3 are of 10,000 DWT or above; 18 passenger ferry berths; and 23 non-production berths. The Shekou Cruise Center , located in Shekou , Nanshan District , provides ferry connections to destinations across
66-416: Is the collective name of a number of ports the coastline of Shenzhen , Guangdong Province, China . These ports as a whole form one of the busiest and fastest growing container ports in the world . The port is home to 40 shipping companies who have launched around 130 international container routes. There are 560 ships on call at Shenzhen port on a monthly basis and also 21 feeder routes to other ports in
77-695: The New Territories and the Kowloon Peninsula of Hong Kong into two areas: the eastern port and the western port. Shenzhen's western port area is located to the east of Lingdingyang in the Pearl River Estuary , consisting of a deep water harbor with natural shelters. The western port area is connected to the Pearl River region , with access to the cities and counties along the Pearl River , including Hong Kong and Guangzhou. The eastern port area
88-598: The Pearl River Delta region. The Shekou Cruise Center provides ferry services across the Pearl River Delta to places such as Hong Kong , Macau , and Zhuhai ; it replaced the Shekou Passenger Terminal in 2016. Shenzhen's port system is currently the third largest port in China and one of the busiest container ports in the world, seeing traffic of 30,036,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) in 2022. It
99-770: The Pearl River Delta . It opened on November 13, 2016, replacing the old Shekou Passenger Terminal . It includes six regular high-speed ferry routes to and from the Hong Kong International Airport , Central, Hong Kong , the Macau Outer Harbor , Taipa, Macau , Zhuhai , and Wai Lingding Island . There are also flexible, non-regular routes to surrounding islands. 22°30′N 113°53′E / 22.500°N 113.883°E / 22.500; 113.883 Deadweight tonnage Deadweight tonnage (also known as deadweight ; abbreviated to DWT , D.W.T. , d.w.t. , or dwt ) or tons deadweight (DWT)
110-492: The exploration of oil in the South China Sea . There is a combined elementary and junior high school, Shenzhen Nanshan Chiwan School (深圳市南山区赤湾学校). A K-12 boarding school called Broadstone Academy Shenzhen will open in 2022. It will have a bilingual curriculum. 22°28′32″N 113°52′52″E / 22.47558°N 113.88103°E / 22.47558; 113.88103 Port of Shenzhen The Port of Shenzhen
121-483: Was formerly the second largest port in China; however, it fell behind the Port of Ningbo-Zhoushan and has not recovered its position since. The Port of Shenzhen is part of the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road , an initiative by China to increase investment and encourage economic collaboration along the historic routes of the maritime Silk Road . The many ports of Shenzhen are spread along Shenzhen's 260 kilometres (160 mi) coastline. The ports are separated by
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