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| Waterway | | | 2005-03-26 20:30:20 |  Ningbo has navigable waterways of 1262 km in length. The 252-km-long Hangzhou-Ningbo Canal connects itself with Beijing-Hangzhou Canal and can accommodate 40-tonnage vessels. Currently the city has 632 vessels with total 903,000 tonnage and 6977 passenger seats. Among them are 17 vessels of 10,000 tons and above with total 483,000 tonnage. The passenger and car ferries and express passenger ships from Ningbo to Shanghai and Zhousan have greatly promoted the economic exchanges and passenger transportation between these places. In 2002, the waterway transportation volume was 1,354,000 person-times for passenger and 27,159,000 tons for cargo, with turnover of passengers and cargo being 22,892,000 person-kilometers and 28.45 billion ton-kilometers respectively.
Basically complete the renovation of Ningbo section of Hangzhou-Ningbo Canal; build the Yaojiang ship lock, Yulangpu ship lock, Datong ship lock and other auxiliary works. In time the Canal will become a 4th-grade navigation channel to accommodate 500-tonnage vessels.
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