Haikou Nature: Gulf Port
Latitude and longitude: 33 degrees 43 minutes, west longitude 1 18 degrees 16 minutes.
Route: West Coast of North America
It is one of the bridgeheads of the North American Continental Bridge and the western bridgehead of the Santa Fe Railway, the main trunk line across the east-west direction of the United States. The bridgehead on the east coast of the Atlantic Ocean is Philadelphia, and the other trunk line is the South Pacific Railway, which starts from Los Angeles, passes through the port of New Orleans and extends to the port of Jacksonville on the Atlantic coast. Los Angeles is the largest industrial city on the west coast of the United States. The famous industries are aircraft manufacturing and petroleum industry. Lockheed, one of the two largest aircraft manufacturing companies in the United States, is the monopoly of aircraft and missile manufacturing in the United States, located in the north of the city. The California oil field is near Los Angeles. In addition, automobile manufacturing, electronic instruments, chemistry, steel and printing all occupy a major position. Hollywood in the northwest is the center of American film industry, and Disney Entertainment Center in the east is world-famous. The port is about 30 kilometers away from the airport, and there are regular flights to all parts of the world.
The port has a subtropical Mediterranean climate with prevailing westerly winds. = monthly average temperature 13.7, and July average temperature 2 1℃. The average annual rainfall is about 800 mm.
The berths of the main docks in the port area are dry;
Wharf Type Berth Shoreline Length (m) and Maximum Water Depth (m)
Bulk general cargo 15 3590 13.7
Container 36 56 12 13.7
Oil Terminal 14 3484 15.2
Loading and unloading equipment includes various shore cranes, mobile cranes, portal cranes, floating cranes, container cranes, loading and unloading bridges and dense loading facilities, of which the maximum lifting capacity of container cranes is 40 tons and that of floating cranes is 350 tons. There is also an oil pipeline with a diameter of 150 ~ 300mm for loading and unloading. The container terminal can stack 25000 TEU and is equipped with an automatic gantry crane. The largest 220,000 dwt tanker has docked in the port area, with a tank capacity of 500,000 tons and an open yard area of 6,543,800 square meters. 1994, the container throughput was 25,655.438+30,000 TEUs, 8.6% higher than 654.38+0.993, ranking second in the United States, and the cargo throughput was 654.38+0.992. The main export commodities are petroleum, cement, machinery, chemicals, cotton, potash fertilizer, fresh fruits, fish products and cylinder heads, and the main import commodities are steel, natural rubber, fiber products, syrup, wood, paper, paper, nuts, wool, vehicles, coffee, glass and bananas. American Shipping Company (APL) has built a new container terminal in this port, which can berth four large container ships and is equipped with a new generation of container cranes. It is estimated that/kloc-0 will be put into production in 1997, when the annual container throughput will be increased by 1 times.