Dalian Port

Dalian port is a complex of diversified facilities handling cargos and pessengers transportation. It is the third largest and the No. 1 export port in China. Its handling capacity reached 75.1 million tons in 1998, up 7.3 per cent from 1997.

As a major port in Northeast China, it mainly services domestic and foreign trade of Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang provinces and the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, and it currently has trade and transport connections with more than one thousand ports and harbours in 150 countries and regions. There are about more than 6,000 trade liners visit the port every year.

There are nine lines connecting Shanghai, Guangzhou, Tianjin, Qingdao, Yantai and other port cities, The passenger terminal handles up to 4.5 million arriving and departing passenger each year.

Dalian Port has co-operated with the Singapore Port Group in running its container wharf, and has made it one of China's most efficient modern wharves.

The port has built a liquid tank wharf with an annual transit throughput capacity of 1.5 million tons in cooperation with investors from Norway and Japan.

While accelerating technical transformation of the old harbor area, the Port has put into service a crude oil terminal in the new harbor area, which is capable of receiving 200,000-DWT class oil tankers. Its annual throughput capacity is 30 million tons.