Shantou Port

Shantou Port is located on the coast of east Guangdong Province and is one of the major coastal ports in China with shipping lines to 272 ports of 58 countries for import/export cargos in East of Guangdong Province, Southwest of a Fujian Provnice and South of Jiangxi Province.

Background
Shantou Port Group was converted from Shantou Port Authority in 1999. The Group's business covers loading/unloading, warehousing, transshipment, tally of containers, coal, mines, cereals and bulk, shipping and cargo agency，supply of oil and water for ships, repair and maintain for ships, dredging, etc. Shantou Port has five port areas, including Zhuchi, Guang’ao, Mashan,Queshi and the old port area. There are total 28 operational berths with a capacity of 14.17 million tons, among which 11 are deep water berths of over 10,000 tons.

As of 2011 the port had 63 productive berths for vessels of over 500 dwt, among them 6 were deepwater berths and 21 are medium-sized berths. The throughput was 10 million tons in 1995.

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