Brief History
built in the 3rd century BC, the Roman Empire, to 1797 as captured by Napoleon, the French subsidiary in 1805. 1815 became part of the Kingdom of Sardinia, Italy, in 1861 incorporated. It is the country's shipbuilding industrial center, all intended to ship about two-thirds in the construction of each year. It is one of Italy's major oil refining center, a pipeline leading to Switzerland and Germany and other central European countries. In addition to the petrochemical industry, machine building and steel industries are more developed. There are many churches and medieval monuments, a popular tourist destination. Harbor about 5km from the airport, there are regular flights to the country.
The port is a subtropical Mediterranean climate, the north wind prevails in winter, other seasons and more southerly. The annual average temperature up to about 32 degrees Celsius, the lowest about -2 degrees Celsius. The annual average rainfall of about 700mm. The average high tide: high tide is 0.3m, low tide is 0.1m.
Hong Kong water area of 2.3 million square meters, has two breakwater protection. Old Port Port consists of three parts, and the oil port Newport composition, total length of 30km coastline, can accommodate vessels 200, 100 which may be detachably simultaneously.
loading and unloading equipment has a variety of shore crane, crane, container crane, crane, self-propelled cranes, hoists, forklifts, straddle carriers, floating cranes and ro-ro facilities, including the largest floating crane lifting capacity of about 210 tons. There are 152 ~ 1219mm diameter pipeline for handling of crude oil used. Warehouse and open yard area of about 1.5 million square meters, there are all kinds of special warehouses and cold storage, which can store up coffee warehouse dedicated 50,000 packets of coffee. Reliable 40,000 dwt container terminal "third generation" of container ships. While on the pier can be stored for 1 million TEU, handling efficiency of loading and unloading 1, there is 5km long railway line every three minutes. The largest oil tanker reliable 250,000 dwt oil wharf, unloading speed of about 6,000 to 10,000 tons per hour. There are other about 1.4n mile offshore platform at the SPM buoy can be parked supertankers of 500,000 dwt, mooring stations connected by pipeline 2800m long submarine pipeline and port, the unloading speed of 14,000 cubic meters per hour. Bulk terminals have conveyor belt the goods can be unloaded directly from the cabin to the yard, unload 600 tons of grain per hour. Ro-Ro terminal which can amount to 2,000 trucks. Hong Kong can undertake a variety of ship repair, the largest dry dock 100,000 dwt ship can accommodate. Main exports machinery, trucks, fertilizers, textiles, tractors, metal products, food and petroleum products, imported goods are mainly coal, grain, timber, oil, ore, scrap steel, pulp, wine, salt, oil, livestock, phosphorus Greystone, oilseeds and chemical products. 1994 container throughput of 50 million TEU, an increase of 45.6% over 1993, 1991, cargo throughput of 41.83 million tons. During the holidays, if necessary, the organization of work, but for overtime calculation, should increase 50% to 100% of the cost. New Year's Day, International Labor Day (May 1) and Christmas, etc. generally do not schedule jobs. This is not limited to continuous operation of oil tankers.
In order to meet the needs of the development of container transport, one of the largest Italian industrial group Fiat subsidiary Xin Bote company will lease land in the expansion of berths Wall Terry container terminal in Hong Kong, the year 2000 will become Europe's largest container port.