As indicated by the latest data published by China’s Ministry of Transport, in 2022, the Qingdao Port, Shandong Port Group saw a cargo throughput of 658 million tons, up 4.3% year on year, and a container throughput of 25.67 million TEUs, up 8.3% year on year. Compared with 2021, both the two figures of Qingdao Port in 2022 outperformed these of Guangzhou Port and ranked fourth in China.

Amid great pressure and severe challenges, Qingdao Port takes advantage of the Shandong Port Group integration platform, and adheres to east-west mutual aid and land-sea linkage, in a bid to increasingly attract iron ores, crude oil and very large container vessels. In 2022, the port saw 28 sea routes added and ranked consistently first among ports in northern China in terms of the density of shipping routes; it witnessed 5 newly increased sea-railway combined freight train routes as well as five new inland ports. Qingdao Port’s sea-railway combined transportation moved a total of 1.9 million TEUs, leading China for eight consecutive years.

According to the latest Comprehensive Evaluation Report of World-class Ports (2022), Qingdao Port comes out in front among world-class ports; Qingdao scored the most points and was honored with the optimum grade in the business environment assessment of 2022 top ten marine container ports.  (Zhou Xiaofeng)