China's busiest port sees record container throughput

Chinese President Xi Jinping visiting the Chuanshan port area of the Ningbo-Zhoushan Port in east China’s Zhejiang Province, March 29, 2020. - Xinhua

HANGZHOU (Xinhua): China's busiest port, the Port of Ningbo Zhoushan in the eastern province of Zhejiang, saw its annual container throughput surpass 28 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) for the first time on Monday (Dec 21).

That makes the port one of just three in the world to have exceeded an annual container throughput of 28 million TEUs. Singapore and China's Shanghai have accomplished the same feat, according to Ningbo Zhoushan Port Company Limited.