The Hailong Bay project of Rizhao Port, one of SPG's subsidiaries, involves returning an old port area back to nature. [Photo/WeChat account: Shandong-Port]

Shandong Port Group (SPG) announced its green and low-carbon development plan for the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-25) at a news conference held in early June in Qingdao, East China's Shandong province.

In 2020, SPG was selected as the country's first pilot port group for constructing smart ports approved by the Ministry of Transport and it subsequently held the Conference on Promoting World-Class Smart and Green Ports Development in Shandong.

SPG is expected to make its contribution to the national target of achieving peak carbon by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060, and to help to build a "Beautiful China" where the sky is blue, the land is green and the water is clear.

In the first three quarters of this year, the port group collected and dispatched 1.4 billion tons of containers through railways, waterways and pipelines, accounting for 76.2 percent of the group's total, a year-on-year increase of 8.75 percent.

During the same period, SPG handled over 1.89 million TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units) via sea-rail intermodal transport, up 28.2 percent year on year.