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Incheon Port

Port name: Incheon Port

Port code: KRINC

Main ports: Main

Country/region code: Korea/KR

Country/region: South Korea/Incheon Port

English name of country/region: KOREA/INCHON

Route name: South Korea Route

Port Introduction

Port of Incheon (37 ° 28 ′ N, 126 ° 37 ′ E) is the second largest port in South Korea and the outer port of Seoul, the capital of South Korea, less than 40 kilometers away from Seoul. Incheon Port City is the economic center of the Republic of Korea, as well as the import and export trade center in northern South Korea.

Geographical advantages of Incheon Port

Incheon Port has unique geographical advantages. On the one hand, it is backed by the capital Seoul, whose GDP is equivalent to 48% of the total GDP of South Korea. On the other hand, Incheon Port has a large industrial and economic hinterland, mainly including steel making, machinery, automobile, shipbuilding, chemical industry, electronics, vehicle manufacturing, metal processing, oil and textile, and is also the center of the London Metal Exchange in Northeast Asia. The main terminals in Incheon Port Area are 6024m long, with 33 berths. Asia accounts for two-thirds of its total foreign trade cargo throughput.

Incheon container throughput

Incheon Port Authority (IPA) said that Incheon Port reached the level of 2.68 million TEU in 2016, compared with 2.37 million TEU in 2015, the throughput in 2016 increased by 12%. Accordingly, Incheon Port aims to exceed 3 million TEU container throughput in 2018.

Natural conditions of Incheon Port

The port has a temperate monsoon climate, with an annual average temperature of about 30 ℃ in summer and about - 10 ℃ in winter. The annual average fog days are about 40 days, and there is ice in winter, which usually does not hinder navigation. The annual average rainfall is about 1200mm. It is an irregular semidiurnal tide port, with average tide height of 8.6m at high tide and 0.4m at low tide. Incheon Port is divided into inner port and outer port, with large gate wharf.

Conditions of main wharf berths:

Wharf type berth (number) shoreline length (m) * * water depth (m)

GENERAL CARGO 22 3656 12

BULK CARGO 6 1208 14.5

CONTAINER 5 1160 14.5

Loading and unloading equipment of Incheon Port

The handling equipment includes various shore cranes, gantry cranes, floating cranes, container trucks and ro ro facilities, among which the floating crane * * has a lifting capacity of 100 tons and the tugboat power * * is 2354 kW. At the container yard, 15000 TEU can be stored at one time; The grain silo has a capacity of 326000 tons. Handling efficiency: 800 tons of grain per hour. The new media terminal at the outer port can berth * * 100000 dwt ships.

Economic Relations between Incheon Port and China

Among all Korean ports, Incheon Port is the closest to China. Therefore, the goal of Incheon Port is to become a regional container hub port in Northeast Asia. At present, Incheon Port is actively strengthening communication with Chinese ports such as Dalian, Qingdao and Tianjin, strengthening mutual partnership, introducing various preferential policies, and constantly attracting more Chinese import and export containers to Incheon for entrepot.

At present, Incheon Port has a sister port relationship with Yantai Port, Tianjin Port and North Bay of Guangxi in China. Qingdao Port (the second trading port) is also carrying out close cooperation based on the friendly and cooperative relationship of Qingdao Free Trade Port Management Committee. On this basis, nine regular routes to Southeast Asia and South Africa via Qingdao Port and Tianjin Port have been opened since 2007 and are currently in operation.