On Mar. 7th, 2017, Dongying Municipal Port Authority organized a meeting in Nanjing for reviewing the findings of wave-tide-sediment physical modelling for inward and outward navigation channel of the Dongying Port accomplished by NHRI. The meeting saw the presence of representatives from Dongying Port Economic Development Zone Administrative Committee, Dongying Port Construction and Investment Co., Ltd., Shandong Tangzheng Project Management Co., Ltd., CCCC First Harbor Consultants Co., Ltd., and MOT Tianjin Research Institute for Water Transport Engineering, and invited experts with MOT, MOT Transport Planning and Research Institute, HoHai University, etc.

The experts unanimously agreed that comprehensive research measures integrating natural conditions analysis with numerical modelling computation and wave-tide-sediment physical modelling were adopted for the study in view of the complex natural conditions near the port zone. The study technical route was correct, methods scientifically reasonable, and contents informative so that the research findings could be regarded as a scientific basis for the planning revision of the port zone and navigation channel design of the port. According to the opinions given by experts, the next phase work is to continue the prototype monitoring and other topic studies.

The Dongying Port is an important regional one for Shandong Province, approved as Class A open port by the state in 1995. The port area locates nearby the amphidromic points of the Yellow River estuary with strong tide and wave dynamics and active sediment movement. It is a key technical issue to reduce and mitigate the sedimentation in the navigation channel of the port basin and decrease the entrance crossflow for the navigation channel construction of the Dongying Port. After 2-year’s repeated modelling and research arguments, an overall arrangement integrating a navigation channel of 100 thousand tonnage with double-dyke with an encircled basin is finally determined.