Yangzhou Port Welcomed The First Foreign Trade Nickel Iron Freighter

Recently, the freighter "Lizhixing", loaded with nearly 10,000 tons of nickel and iron imported from Indonesia, docked at Liuwei Wharf of Yangzhou Port and carried out the unloading work nervously and orderly. This is the first foreign trade nickel iron freighter ushered in Yangzhou port.

"The freighter arrived at Yangzhou Port on the afternoon of April 15 and successfully completed the unloading task after 40 hours." Dispatching center is responsible for the comrades, from yangzhou unberthing smoothly for the foreign trade cargo ship, loading and unloading work, such as port well implement the epidemic prevention and control requirements, a targeted operation plan and operational procedures, repeatedly check the discharging process, to ensure that the process is reliable and accurate, and keep the communication with the owner, to ensure that each link seamless docking. At the same time, the unproductive docking time of the ship was greatly reduced, and the operating efficiency was increased from 215 tons/hour to 308 tons/hour.

Nickelite, also known as "bread iron", is mainly used in the smelting of stainless steel. The cargo ship was loaded with nickel iron purchased by a steel trading company in Fujian province and transshipped to Taizhou via Yangzhou port.

It is reported that to build the middle reaches of the Yangtze River import and export steel transfer base is one of the development goals of the Yangtze River Delta integration during the "14th Five-year plan" period.