SPG boosts domestic container business
China DailyDomestic distribution plays a fundamental and leading role in the national economy, serving as a bridge linking production and consumption. With the establishment of a new development pattern featuring "dual circulation" and the steady growth of national domestic trade, the logistics industry's demands for domestic container transport are growing. Following guidance from Shandong Port Group and capitalizing on the advantages brought by SPG's port-industry-city integration reform, port subsidiaries have made greater efforts to boost changes to transport from bulk cargo transport to container traffic for bulk cargo, which has formed effective connectivity between bulk cargo and containers, thus building new advantages for domestic container growth. Such a new form of business, namely bulk cargo transported in containers, has become one of the priorities for China's coastal ports, especially serving as an effective approach to increasing the number of domestic containers under the current new economic development architecture of "dual circulation". "Taking the advantages of the Qingdao Qianwan West Port United Terminal Co Ltd as the largest terminal in northern China for paper pulp imports and the Qingdao Qianwan United Container Terminal Co Ltd whose truck and feeder services reach most areas, our two companies have leveraged respective strengths to develop container transport for paper pulp in such areas as Fujian, Jiangsu and Guangdong provinces," said Liu Qiang, a manager from QQCTU.