The Port of Meizhou Bay was created in 2012 by merging the ports of
Quanzhou,
Meizhou Island
Meizhou Island (; Pu-Xian Min: ''Mî-ciu-doh''), Meichow; Meichou, is a small island close to the coast of China. Meizhou Town () is an administrative unit of Xiuyu District, Putian, Fujian, China. It is known for being the birthplace of the go ...
and
Putian, 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
Quanzhou 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 cap ...
province, China.
Its
UN/LOCODE
UN/LOCODE, the United Nations Code for Trade and Transport Locations, is a geographic coding scheme developed and maintained by United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE). UN/LOCODE assigns codes to locations used in trade and transpor ...
is CNQZJ.
History
Port of Quanzhou was the busiest port during the era of the
Tang dynasty
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.
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 fift ...
.
The medieval western travellers to China;
Marco Polo,
Ibn Battuta,
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 ...
. They are Meizhou Bay, Quanzhou Bay, Shenhu Bay and Weitou Bay.
[Chinaports](_blank)
It is managed by the Quanzhou Port Authority.
* Quanzhou Bay 泉州湾 ) - with facilities near Quanzhou's main urban area (
Fengze District
() is a district of the city of Quanzhou, 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 ...
)
* Meizhou Bay 湄洲湾 () - with facilities in
Quangang District
* 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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Quanzhou
Transport in Fujian
Quanzhou