The Port of Longkou is an artificial deep-water international
seaport on the coast of
Longkou,
Yantai Prefecture,
Shandong,
People's Republic of China. It is located on the northern shore of
Shandong Peninsula, opening to the
Laizhou Bay
Laizhou Bay () is a bay on the southern shore of the Bohai Sea (also known as the ''Bohai Gulf'', or just ''Bo Hai'', which is a large and relatively shallow westward extension of the northern Yellow Sea), bounded by the northwestern coastline of ...
of the
Bohai Sea
The Bohai Sea () is a marginal sea approximately in area on the east coast of Mainland China. It is the northwestern and innermost extension of the Yellow Sea, to which it connects to the east via the Bohai Strait. It has a mean depth of ...
.
The port has been growing rapidly in the last decade, and it reached 70.6 million
tons
Tons can refer to:
* Tons River, a major river in India
* Tamsa River, locally called Tons in its lower parts (Allahabad district, Uttar pradesh, India).
* the plural of ton, a unit of mass, force, volume, energy or power
:* short ton, 2,000 poun ...
of total cargo throughput in 2013.
History
The Port of Longkou was founded in 1914 by the
Beiyang Government
The Beiyang government (), officially the Republic of China (), sometimes spelled Peiyang Government, refers to the government of the Republic of China which sat in its capital Peking (Beijing) between 1912 and 1928. It was internationally ...
. The first concrete pier was built in 1918–19, a minor landmark in the history of Chinese harbor engineering.
Layout
The jurisdictional area of the port is 170 km
2.
As of 2012, the Port of Longkou had 15,000 m of quayside and 29 production berths, of which 7 were capable of handling 100,000
DWT, 5 could handle 50,000 DWT, and 7 could handle 10,000 DWT. The main fairway has a depth of 15.5 m, width of 200 m, and it's capable of handling ships of up to 100,000 DWT.
Administration
While located in
Yantai Prefecture, the Port of Longkou is administered independently from the
Port of Yantai.
Operations
References
External links
Port of Longkou website
Ports and harbours of China
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