Xinghua Bay, whose mouth is located between Niutouwei in Fuqing County and Shichengjiao in Putian City. The north side of Egg Island is the main navigation gate, Xinghua Bay Waterway can connect Sanjiangkou and Jiangkou Port, and there is a white floating island in the center of the waterway, which can be navigable on both sides. The water depth in the center of the bay mouth is more than 20 meters, gradually becoming shallower to the west, and the water depth in the west is less than 5 meters. The main ports in the Bay are Sanjiangkou Port and Hanjiang Port.
Sanjiangkou Port, once one of the five largest ports in Fujian Province in history, is navigable to major coastal ports. Sanjiangkou Port is located in Xinpu Village at the intersection of Mulan River and Han River at the top of West Bay in Xinghua Bay. It is 549 nautical miles from Shanghai, 0/09 nautical miles from Fuzhou/KLOC, 54 nautical miles from Xiuyu Port, 93 nautical miles from Quanzhou, and 0/91nautical mile from Xiamen. The highway is 3km from Hanjiang River, 7km from Putian/KLOC-0, 98km from Fuzhou, 5km from Quanzhou/KLOC-0, and 207km from Xiamen. From the front of Sanqinggong Ferry to the wharf on the east side of the port, the water in the port area is 1500m long, 120m wide and 180m2 in area, and the available coastline is 150m. The port has two affiliated ports, one is Meiwei District, which is away from Sanjiangkou Port1km; The other is the Qiaodou area at 1.5km upstream of the port, with a water area of 1.6 million square meters.
In the Qing Dynasty, it became a foreign trade port, ranking as the five major ports in Fujian along with Fuzhou, Xiamen, Quanzhou and Sandu 'ao. In the 11th year of Guangxu (1885), the black-grooved galleon was anchored. In the 22nd year of Guangxu, after the Japanese ship Yoshimaru entered Hong Kong, foreign ships came one after another. At the beginning of Xuantong, Sanjiangkou was directly connected with Ningbo. In the third year of the Republic of China, it opened navigation with Shanghai. In 9 years, it was opened to navigation with Dalian and Yingkou. After the fall of Shantou, Guangdong in 27 years of the Republic of China, there was only one port in the coastal area between Fujian and Guangdong. At the right time, the ship came in and out like a shuttle. "There is a mountain of goods, and there is almost no space." 1950 There are still foreign ships entering the port. After 1958, only 1000-ton ships set sail in China. 1979 65438+February, the port resumed foreign trade transportation business. 1982, built 1 500-ton floating dock. 1985 is listed as the transit port of Meizhou Bay Port, and the routes reach Hong Kong, Shantou, Xiamen, Fuzhou, Ningbo, Wenzhou, Dinghai, Rui 'an, Zhenjiang, Nantong, Shanghai, Dalian, Yantai, Dongshan and Pingtan. 1987, the Ministry of Communications allocated funds to build two 500-ton general cargo terminals with an annual handling capacity of 1 5,000 tons, including two 8-ton electric cranes,13-ton truck cranes and forklifts, an 800-square-meter warehouse and a 2,000-square-meter yard. There are also 1 300-ton oil terminal and 100-meter oil pipeline. 1 In 1993, Hanjiang District allocated funds to build1300-ton passenger terminal upstream of general cargo terminal to undertake passenger service from Hanjiang to Rinan Island. 1994, with a port throughput of 298,900 tons, is the main waterway gateway in Hanjiang District.
Mulan Waterway, the main stream of Mulan River is 105 km long, and it is the largest river in Putian City. In the eighth year of Song Xining (1075), Mulan Monument was built to intercept the tide. Mulanxi Waterway rises from the Han River, passes through Huating, Shanwei, Shima and Dam to Xianyou Chengguan, with a total length of 62.5 kilometers. The upper and middle reaches of Beitou can be navigable by 2-3 ton stream boats, and the lower reaches can be navigable by 3-4 ton stream boats. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, reservoirs, power stations and roads were built in the upper reaches of Mulan River, which led to a drop in water level and shortened voyage. After 1967, the navigation from Shima to Youtan is only 10 km (it is also suspended today).
The South-North Ocean Channel, commonly known as "Jiujiugou", is a branch channel of the South-North Ocean in the lower reaches of Mulan River, with a total length of about 400 kilometers and a navigable channel of 38 1 km, of which the southern channel 16 1 km and the northern channel is 220 kilometers long. Trench ships of 2-4 tons can sail all year round. Among them, there are 4 small steamboat channels with a length of 42 kilometers. The Hanjiang-Wu Tang and Hanjiang-Chengguan lines can sail small ships all year round. In the dry season, the small ships from Qiaodou to Hohhot and Qiaodou to Gaobei relay sailing.
Reservoir channel, 1960. After the completion of Dongzhen Reservoir, the water surface of the reservoir area is 3 16 square kilometers. In order to facilitate the traffic around the reservoir area, two navigation channels, from dam head to the palace and from dam head to Changtai, are opened, with a length of 15km.
Tonghai River, from Mulan Beitou to Sanjiangkou, 28.5 kilometers long; Hanjiang River-Sanjiangkou, the new bridge head of Hanjiang River to Sanjiangkou, with a length of 5.5 kilometers.
Huangtou Port is located in Linxia Village, Mulan River, Hebei Province, suburban township. The water area is 900 square meters, with a simple wharf 1 seat, 20 meters long, 0.8 meters in front depth and 5 tons berthing capacity. It is a special wharf for Putian Sugar Factory. The throughput of 1990 is 39,400 tons.
Lingtouwei Port is located on the west side of the dam head of Dongzhen Reservoir. There is a 1 simple wharf ahead, with a length of 60m, a width of 6m and a depth of 52m, which is the passenger terminal of Dongzhen Reservoir. There are 5 berths, with berthing capacity15t, total route length15km and annual passenger traffic of 206,000 passengers.
Hanjiang Port, also known as Duanming Port, is located in the south of Hanjiang City. There are two ports in this port, one is Haicenqian Port and the other is Xinkaihe Port, which is called Hougang. The junction of the two port roads is the main port road, which flows into Xinghua Bay after the confluence of Sanjiangkou and Mulan River. The port of Han Dynasty was opened in Song Dynasty. At the end of Yuan Dynasty, Baihu Port and Ninghai Port, once prosperous in Putian County, were gradually abandoned, and Hanjiang Port took its place and became the main trading port in Putian. During Yongle period of Ming Dynasty (1403 ~ 1422), the port was in its heyday. In the early Qing Dynasty, the sea was forbidden, and Hanjiang Port once declined. In the 20th year of Kangxi in Qing Dynasty (168 1), the maritime ban was gradually opened, and the Hanjiang Port rose accordingly. The seagoing vessels in this port often sail in Tianjin, Shanghai, Ningbo, Fuzhou, Xiamen, Shantou and Guangzhou. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, due to the opening of Sanjiangkou Port, Hanjiang Port became a gathering place for maritime businessmen. Since 1950s, due to the disrepair of navigation channels, shipping business has been transferred to Sanjiangkou Port. From 1962 to 1966, there are 8 terminals in Hanjiang Port, including passenger terminal 1, 7 cargo terminals, with a total length of 330m and 9 berths, with berthing capacity of 20 ~100t. The port dock is a gravity revetment with mortar rubble, and the port is equipped with 3 fixed cranes, 3 dump trucks, 3 agricultural vehicles, 7 trucks, 50 rubber-tyred vehicles and 0/7 warehouses. 1987 The port throughput was 38,300 tons, including 24,000 tons of imported goods and 0.4 million tons of exported goods. There are routes to Fuqing, Pingtan, Gao Qi, Fuzhou and Putian coastal ports. 1994, with an annual comprehensive transportation capacity of 30,000 tons.