Quanzhou Port: The Erythrina Port, The Ancient Chinese City

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Quanzhou Port in ancient times known as the "Erythrina port" is the ancient Chinese maritime Silk Road starting point, the ancient Chinese world's largest port. Located in Quanzhou City, Jinjiang downstream of the southeast coastal harbor, north to Quanzhou Meizhou Bay in Australia, south to Quanzhou Wai Tau Bay Tongan District Lianhe. Port resources, the coastline of 541 km in length, is one of the three major ports in Fujian Province. The history of the four to sixteen Hong Kong famous in the world, is also the development of the Meizhou Bay Xiao house deep water port. Quanzhou Port has four operating areas of five ports in 16 operating areas, namely: the west coast of Meizhou Bay and the south bank of the port Douou Doukou; Quanzhou Bay …show more content…

After the Third Plenary Session of the 11th CPC Central Committee, Quanzhou rebuilt the port on the basis of the original. In 1980, Quanzhou Port Authority was established; January 1, 1983, Quanzhou port officially resumed open to foreign ships, the State Council approved the opening of the country's 24 ports. There are 19 berths with the capacity of 10,000 tons and above, the new handling capacity of 2 million tons, and 7 berths under construction, including 2 groups of 10,000-ton mooring buoys, one 10,000-ton deep-water berths, 5,000-ton berths 2 One, two 3,000-ton berths, the annual capacity of 3 million tons. In order to adapt to the oil transit business, in the construction of 10 million-ton oil port. Quanzhou main port Quanzhou Bay pollution a …show more content…

The designed annual handling capacity is 87.8 million tons, including 1.69 million TEU of containers. The park has formed Quanzhou Bay as the central port area, and the berths of large, medium and small berths complement each other. Facilities are relatively perfect, relatively complete function of the port system. Quanzhou Port now has a total warehouse capacity of 38,725 square meters; oil depot 25, with a total capacity of 811,350 cubic meters; yard 338,000 square meters. Quanzhou Port and Taiwan across the sea, 165 sea miles from the port of Kaohsiung, from the Keelung port 152 sea miles away from Taichung Harbor 105 nautical miles from the Penghu Mangong port only 90 nautical

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