As part of our Port and Terminal Management class, we traveled to the Yangshan Deepwater Port south of Shanghai today. The Yangshan Port was designed to meet the demand for deeper berths that can’t be met in the shallow Port of Shanghai, and we had all been looking forward to this field-trip for quite some time. While most of us have been to a port before, I know that I have never personally seen so many cranes and berths, not to mention that many containers!
The journey to Yangshan Port may have been even more interesting than the port itself, as we had to cross a 32.5 km bridge to get there! The Donghai Bridge is the 2nd longest in the world and was built specifically to connect the port, which is on an island, to the mainland, and thus is only really crossed by trucks. A portion of the bridge is flanked by rows of offshore windmills, so it was sort of a sneak-peek of what the windmills could look like off Cape Cod, and we were all pretty impressed. We weren’t able to tour much of the port, but we took pictures from a viewpoint and felt pretty lucky to get to see something so relevant to our studies.
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