The Port of Qingdao is a seaport on the

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in the vicinity of

Qingdao Qingdao (, also spelled Tsingtao; , Mandarin: ) is a major city in eastern Shandong Province. The city's name in Chinese characters literally means " azure island". Located on China's Yellow Sea coast, it is a major nodal city of the One Belt ...

(Tsingtao),

Shandong Province Shandong ( , ; ; alternately romanized as Shantung) is a coastal province of the People's Republic of China and is part of the East China region. Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history since the beginning of Chinese civilizatio ...

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. 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

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), and Dongjiakou (Simplified: 董家口) port area, the latter being located 40 kilometres south of Qingdao city. Including the

Qingdao Qianwan Container Terminal Qingdao Qianwan Container Terminal is a port of China, located at Qianwan (literally The Front Bay), Qingdao, Shandong province. Qingdao Port ranked 10th in 2008 world's busiest container ports with 10,320 thousands TEU, current projects were ex ...

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 Shandong ( , ; ; alternately romanized as Shantung) is a coastal province of the People's Republic of China and is part of the East China region. Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history since the beginning of Chinese civilizati ...

Province, signed a strategic alliance with the largest port of the Republic of Korea (ROK). The alliance included Shandong's Qingdao Port,

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, Port of Rizhao,

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, 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

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that runs from the Chinese coast to

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, towards the southern tip of

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; from there through the Red Sea via the

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and to the Mediterranean; and from there to the Upper Adriatic region to the northern Italian hub of

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with connections to

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and the

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. A world's first

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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.

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External links

Qingdao Port (Group) Ltd. website
Transport in Qingdao Ports and harbours of China {{Shandong-geo-stub

History

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