In the first half of a year 2024, the container throughput of Chinese ports was 161.8 million TEU, a year-on-year increase of 8.5%. Among them, the container throughput of Shanghai Port in the first half of a year was 25.5 million TEU, a year-on-year increase of 7.5%; the container throughput of Ningbo Zhoushan Port was 19.1 million TEU, a year-on-year increase of 8.4%, according to the message of Ningbo Zhoushan port Group.
China has 34 major ports and more than 2000 minor ports. The former are mostly sea ports (except for ports such as Shanghai, Nanjing and Jiujiang along the Yangtze and Guangzhou in the Pearl River delta) opening up to the Yellow Sea (Bo Hai), Taiwan Strait, Pearl River and South China Sea while the latter comprise ports that lie along the major and minor rivers of China Most of China’s major cities are also ports or are facilitated by a port nearby.
Major ports
The major ports in China, listed North to South, consist of:
1. Dalian 2. Yingkou 3. Jinzhou 4. Qinhuangdao 5. Tianjin 6. Yantai 7. Weihai 8. Qingdao 9. Rizhao 10. Lianyungang 11. Nantong 12. Zhenjiang 13. Jiangyin 14. Nanjing 15. Shanghai 16. Ningbo 17. Zhoushan 18. Jiujiang 19. Taizhou (North of Wenzhou) 20. Wenzhou 21. Taizhou (South of Wenzhou) 22. Changle 23. Quanzhou 24. Xiamen 25. Shantou 26. Jieyang 27. Guangzhou 28. Zhuhai 29. Shenzhen 30. Zhanjiang 31. Beihai 32. Fangchenggang 33. Haikou 34. Basuo
