The Port of Meizhou Bay was created in 2012 by merging the ports of

Quanzhou Quanzhou, postal map romanization, alternatively known as Chinchew, is a prefecture-level city, prefecture-level port city on the north bank of the Jin River, beside the Taiwan Strait in southern Fujian, China. It is Fujian's largest metrop ...

, Meizhou Island and

Putian Putian or Putien (, Putian dialect: ''Pó-chéng''), also known as Puyang (莆阳) and Puxian (莆仙), historically known as Xinghua or Hing Hwa (), is a prefecture-level city in eastern Fujian province, China. It borders Fuzhou City to the nor ...

, as part of Fujian Province's rationalization of ports, which cutting down the number of ports in the province into three large consolidated ports (Xiamen, Meizhou Bay and Fuzhou). In 2012, Meizhou Bay port had 147 berths, 24 with 10,000 DWT capacity, and had a total cargo throughput of 114 million tonnes. Port of Quanzhou () is a sea port with a number of facilities within in

prefecture-level city A prefecture-level city () or prefectural city is an administrative division of the People's Republic of China (PRC), ranking below a province and above a county in China's administrative structure. During the Republican era, many of China' ...

, in the southeastern part of

Fujian Fujian (; alternately romanized as Fukien or Hokkien) is a province on the southeastern coast of China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, Guangdong to the south, and the Taiwan Strait to the east. Its capi ...

province, China. Its UN/LOCODE is CNQZJ.

History

Port of Quanzhou was the busiest port during the era of the

Tang dynasty The Tang dynasty (, ; zh, t= ), or Tang Empire, was an Dynasties in Chinese history, imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 618 to 907 AD, with an Zhou dynasty (690–705), interregnum between 690 and 705. It was preceded by the Sui dyn ...

. The port peaked in activity during the

Yuan Dynasty The Yuan dynasty (), officially the Great Yuan (; xng, , , literally "Great Yuan State"), was a Mongol-led imperial dynasty of China and a successor state to the Mongol Empire after its division. It was established by Kublai, the fifth ...

. The medieval western travellers to China;

Marco Polo Marco Polo (, , ; 8 January 1324) was a Venetian merchant, explorer and writer who travelled through Asia along the Silk Road between 1271 and 1295. His travels are recorded in ''The Travels of Marco Polo'' (also known as ''Book of the Marv ...

Ibn Battuta Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Battutah (, ; 24 February 13041368/1369),; fully: ; Arabic: commonly known as Ibn Battuta, was a Berbers, Berber Maghrebi people, Maghrebi scholar and explorer who travelled extensively in the lands of Afro-Eurasia, ...

Giovanni de' Marignolli Giovanni de' Marignolli ( la, Johannes Marignola;. ), variously anglicized as John of Marignolli or John of Florence, was a notable 14th-century Catholic European traveller to medieval China and India. Life Early life Giovanni was born, probab ...

, and Odoric all have transited through Quanzhou. Polo labelled it as one of world's the largest port and Battuta equated the port to the Port of Alexandria during the time. The port has facilities in four bays of

Taiwan Strait The Taiwan Strait is a -wide strait separating the island of Taiwan and continental Asia. The strait is part of the South China Sea and connects to the East China Sea to the north. The narrowest part is wide. The Taiwan Strait is itself a s ...

. They are Meizhou Bay, Quanzhou Bay, Shenhu Bay and Weitou Bay.Chinaports
It is managed by the Quanzhou Port Authority. * Quanzhou Bay 泉州湾 ) - with facilities near Quanzhou's main urban area ( Fengze District) * Meizhou Bay 湄洲湾 () - with facilities in

Quangang District Quangang (; Min Nan: Chôan-káng) is a district of Quanzhou, Fujian province, People's Republic of China. Before 1996 it was part of Hui'an County. In 2000, it separated itself from Hui'an, and was renamed Quangang. The population is 360,000. Th ...

* Shenhu Bay 深沪湾 () - with facilities in

Shenhu Shenhu () is a town on the southern coast of Fujian province, People's Republic of China. It is under the administration of Jinjiang City, the centre of which is away. It sits on a peninsula, facing the Taiwan Strait to the east and the town of ...

Town * Weitou Bay 围头湾 () - with facilities in the towns of

Shijing The ''Classic of Poetry'', also ''Shijing'' or ''Shih-ching'', translated variously as the ''Book of Songs'', ''Book of Odes'', or simply known as the ''Odes'' or ''Poetry'' (; ''Shī''), is the oldest existing collection of Chinese poetry, co ...

, Shuitou, and

Anhai Anhai is a town in southern Fujian province, People's Republic of China. It is located in the far southern suburbs of the Quanzhou metropolitan area. and is separated by Weitou Bay () from Kinmen, which is controlled by the Republic of China on ...

References

External links

Quanzhou Harbour Group
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Transport in Fujian Quanzhou