Recently, the Weihai Maritime Safety Administration, jointly with five departments including the Weihai Transportation Bureau, Weihai Customs, Rongcheng Customs, and the Weihai Meteorological Bureau, issued the “One Line, One Policy” Implementation Plan for Safety Supervision and Service Guarantee of the Weihai-China-South Korea Passenger and Cargo Liner Route. Focusing on the two core aspects of “safety” and “service,” the plan introduces precise work measures in twelve areas, injecting new momentum into the high-quality development of the China-South Korea passenger and cargo liner route.
The plan explicitly requires a comprehensive effort to consolidate corporate safety management responsibilities, strictly fulfill the primary responsibility of “self-management of ships,” strengthen safety risk identification and hidden danger investigation and management, and enhance cross-departmental joint supervision and China-South Korea maritime management cooperation. It aims to fully strengthen the level of “human defense + technical defense + management defense,” promote the establishment of a captain’s bridge watch-keeping system, pilot the use of intelligent ship bridge monitoring systems, and issue recommended navigation method suggestions for China-South Korea passenger and cargo liners, thereby improving intrinsic safety levels from the perspectives of ships, cargo, and navigation restriction management. The five departments will break down information barriers, establish a normalized information sharing mechanism, and achieve real-time exchange of information such as ship dynamics, weather warnings, and customs clearance data to safeguard ship navigation safety.
“The introduction of the plan marks a new stage of precision and coordination in the safety management of Weihai’s China-South Korea passenger and cargo liners,” said a relevant official from the Weihai Maritime Safety Administration. “The Weihai experience accumulated through ‘One Line, One Policy’ will also provide an important reference for the national safety supervision and service guarantee of China-South Korea passenger and cargo liners.”
After more than thirty years of dedicated development, Weihai has now become the core hub of the national China-South Korea passenger and cargo liner route—the number of routes accounts for 40% of the national total, ranking first in the country, making it a key maritime logistics node linking China and South Korea and radiating to Europe and Asia.
This maritime channel, which carries over 300,000 passengers annually and handles 140,000 TEUs of cargo, is accelerating towards becoming an international maritime “high-speed road” connecting Weihai to Europe and Asia under the escort of precise policies. It injects strong momentum into the construction of the Shandong Demonstration Zone for a strong transportation country and builds a more solid maritime bridge for economic, trade, and cultural exchanges between China and South Korea.
By Full Media Reporter Ma Rongwei, Correspondent Xu Yunfei
