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Qingdao Port
Qingdao Port [Photo provided to en.sd-port.com]
Shandong Port Group Co Ltd, founded in Qingdao on Aug 6, 2019, is a provincial State-owned enterprise approved by the People's Government of Shandong Province.
The group consists of Qingdao Port, Rizhao Port, Yantai Port and Bohai Bay Port, and operates in 10 business sectors: financial control, port construction, industry and city integration, logistics, shipping, cruise lines, equipment manufacturing, trade, science and technology, and overseas development.
Connecting 3,345 kilometers of coastline, Shandong Port Group operates 16 major ports (port areas) and more than 300 production berths, with more than 60,000 employees.
Qingdao Port [Photo provided to en.sd-port.com]
The group has the world's largest 400,000-ton ore terminal, 450,000-ton crude oil terminal, a container terminal capable of porting 24,000 TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent unit) container vessels, and a special terminal capable of berthing 227,000-ton cruisers. It has more than 200 container shipping routes covering more than 180 countries and regions.
In 2019, the group's cargo throughput reached 1.32 billion tons, with a year-on-year growth of 10.9 percent, ranking first among China's coastal ports. It completed 29.56 million TEUs, an increase of 9.7 percent year-on-year, ranking second among China's coastal ports.
Shandong Port Group actively implements the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and undertakes other such national missions. It actively synergizes the national strategy of serving the country and the BRI, and taking East-West two-way economic cooperation and the linkage between the land and sea as its development path.
The group is striving to build a world-class smart and green port, a logistics hub port, a financial and trade port, an integrated industry and city port, and a cruise ship culture and tourism port.
Qingdao Port [Photo provided to en.sd-port.com]