seetaocom learned from Yantai Port of Shandong Port on August 26 that from January to June 2021, the cargo throughput of Yantai Port reached 183 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 8.8%, and the main production and operation indicators reached the best level in the same period in history.

Yantai Port deepens the Belt and Road Initiative

Recently, Yantai Port has successively ushered in the intensive operations of "Progress Pioneer", "Cape Town High Speed", "Grand Goddess" and other commodity vehicles ro-ro carriers. Since 2021, the port's foreign trade commodity vehicle business has achieved an increase of 398%, and the active port logistics and transportation have provided strong support for the smooth double cycle.

Yantai is separated by a narrow strip of water with Japan and South Korea. The trade drive between China, Japan and South Korea has brought considerable growth to the business of Yantai Port. From January to July 2021, the container business of Yantai Port to South Korea increased by 26.3%, and the container business between China and South Korea has developed into a "transnational express delivery" between China and South Korea.

Relying on core projects such as 400,000-ton deep-water berths, 300,000-ton crude oil terminals, and 3.6 million cubic meters of storage tank farms, Yantai Port has established energy import, ore mixing, bauxite full logistics, container transfer, fertilizer and commercial vehicles And other modern logistics systems.

At the same time, after years of development, Yantai Port has formed five major port areas, namely Zhifu Bay Port Area, West Port Area, Longkou Port Area, Penglai Port Area, and Laizhou Port Area. The ports of Bokai and Jinbo in Guinea, Africa are the new port clusters of overseas bridgeheads.

Among them, it accurately matched the needs of economic construction in Guinea and West Africa, continued to build and relied on the bauxite full logistics system from Guinea to China, and the two-way route was used to achieve a "return". The variety of China-Africa liner cargo continued to be enriched and the volume continued Increased, the shipping frequency of the route business reached an average of 6 ships per month.

Yantai Port actively participates in the construction of port-industry-city integration port, integrates into Yantai's urban industrial transformation and upgrading, and opens up to the outside world. It relies on traditional main business to build a port supply chain system and introduces various types of businesses such as finance and trade. It will play a platform and supporting role in five aspects, including resource aggregation, urban construction, port-industry development, urban opening up, and joint ventures and cooperation, and act as a “gold partner” in the co-construction of the Belt and Road Initiative. Editor/Tian Zengpeng