The Port of Qingdao is a seaport on the
Yellow Sea in the vicinity of
Qingdao (Tsingtao),
Shandong Province,
People's Republic of China. It is one of the ten busiest ports in the world (7th in 2019, considering total cargo volume).
Qingdao Port consists of four areas, which are often themselves referred to as ports due to their size: Dagang port area, Qianwan port area, Huangdong oil port area (for
oil tankers), and Dongjiakou (Simplified: 董家口) port area, the latter being located 40 kilometres south of Qingdao city.
Including the
Qingdao Qianwan Container Terminal and the Qingdao Cosport International Container Terminal, which are located in different areas, Qingdao also has a large terminal for handling iron ore.
History
In 2011, the Qingdao Port, together with three other Chinese ports in East China's
Shandong Province, signed a strategic alliance with the largest port of the Republic of Korea (ROK). The alliance included Shandong's Qingdao Port,
Port of Yantai, Port of Rizhao,
Port of Weihai, and the ROK's Port of Busan and aimed to build a shipping and logistics center in Northeast Asia.
In May, 2014, Qingdao Port International Co. Ltd. announced it was seeking to raise up to US$377 million in a Hong Kong initial public offering.
In August 2014, it was revealed that the firm was involved in two lawsuits with the global warehousing firm Pacorini Logistics, claiming a total of $58.4 million in damages. This followed a lawsuit the firm had already been subject to from
CITIC Resources.
The port is part of the
21st Century Maritime Silk Road
The 21st Century Maritime Silk Road ( Chinese: 21世纪海上丝绸之路), commonly just Maritime Silk Road (MSR), is the sea route part of the Belt and Road Initiative which is a Chinese strategic initiative to increase investment and foster co ...
that runs from the Chinese coast to
Singapore, towards the southern tip of
India to
Mombasa; from there through the Red Sea via the
Suez Canal and to the Mediterranean; and from there to the Upper Adriatic region to the northern Italian hub of
Trieste with connections to
Central Europe
Central Europe is an area of Europe between Western Europe and Eastern Europe, based on a common historical, social and cultural identity. The Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) between Catholicism and Protestantism significantly shaped the ar ...
and the
North Sea.
A world's first
suspended monorail
A suspension railway is a form of elevated monorail in which the vehicle is suspended from a fixed track (as opposed to a cable used in aerial tramways), which is built above streets, waterways, or existing railway track.
History
Experimental ...
capable of carrying fully loaded 20' and 40' containers has been under construction since 2020 at the Port of Qingdao, the first phase of which was put into operation in 2021.
Notes
See also
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Container transport
Containerization is a system of intermodal freight transport using intermodal containers (also called shipping containers and ISO containers). Containerization is also referred as "Container Stuffing" or "Container Loading", which is the pr ...
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List of world's busiest container ports
External links
Qingdao Port (Group) Ltd. website
Transport in Qingdao
Ports and harbours of China
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