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Port of Suzhou

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Location
  
Available berths
  
224

Opened
  
2002

Type of harbor
  
Annual cargo tonnage
  
434.5 billion kg

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Owned by
  
Suzhou Municipal Government

Annual container volume
  
4.45 million TEU (2014)

Port of Suzhou is the collective name of three ports around the city of Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China. The three ports are located in Zhangjiagang, Changshu and Taicang respectively, on the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. The total cargo throughput of 454 million tons in 2013. As of 2013, it is the busiest inland river port in the world by annual cargo tonnage and container volume, as well as the sixth busiest port by annual cargo tonnage. The majority of the port trade is in coal, ore, steel, and construction materials such as cement.

Port Infrastructure

As of 2011, Port of Suzhou consist of 224 production berths in total, 106 of them being above ten thousand tons in tonnage. The port has trade with over 400 international and domestic shipping lines.

References

Port of Suzhou Wikipedia


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