Port of Suzhou

31°47′58″N 120°51′33″E / 31.799391°N 120.859222°E / 31.799391; 120.859222DetailsOpened2002Owned bySuzhou Municipal GovernmentType of harbourInland portNo. of berths224^[1]StatisticsAnnual cargo tonnage479 million tons (6th, 2014^[2])Annual container volume4.45 million TEU (2014^[3])

Port of Suzhou
Traditional Chinese	蘇州港
Simplified Chinese	苏州港
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Sūzhōu Gǎng Wu Suzhounese Sou平-tseuy平 Kaon上

Port of Suzhou is the collective name of three ports around the city of Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China.^[4] The three ports are located in Zhangjiagang, Changshu and Taicang, respectively, on the lower reaches of the Yangtze River.^[5] The total cargo throughput of 454 million tons in 2013.^[2] As of 2013^[update], it is the busiest inland river port in the world by annual cargo tonnage and container volume, as well as the sixth-busiest port by annual cargo tonnage. The majority of the port trade is in coal, ore, steel, and construction materials such as cement.^[5][6]

Port infrastructure

As of 2011^[update], Port of Suzhou consist of 224 production berths in total, 106 of them being above ten thousand tons in tonnage. The port has trade with over 400 international and domestic shipping lines.^[1]

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