Yantai Port [Photo provided to en.sd-port.com]

Yantai Port was first put into use in 1861, and has grown from a primitive natural port into a national main pivot in waterway traffic and an important coastal open port in China.

Located in the core area of the northeast Asia international economic circle, the port is an important passageway between south and north in China's coastal area and the pitch point of the New Eurasian Continental Bridge under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Furthermore, it is one of the 15 key ports in coastal cites under the BRI.

It consists of four port areas – Zhifu, Xigang, Longkou and Penglai – with an annual throughput capacity of over 300 million tons.

Yantai Port mainly focuses on the loading and unloading and transport of bulk cargo, containers, liquid bulk, commercial vehicles, and cargo-passenger Ro-Ro.

Now a modern port group company, it had 113 berths for various purposes, including 74 deep-water berths for vessels over 10,000 DWT by the end of 2019. It also had a total dock coastline of 24,063 meters, a total railway special line of 64.4 kilometers and a total area of 9.12 million square meters for warehouses and yards. It has 1,160 sets of handling machines worth 43.5 billion yuan ($6.24 billion).

In 2019, Yantai Port saw overall container throughput of 3.1 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU), jumping 3.4 percent year-on-year.

Yantai Port [Photo provided to en.sd-port.com]