| Port of Suzhou 苏州港 | |
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| Location | |
| Country | |
| Location | Suzhou,Jiangsu |
| Coordinates | 31°47′58″N120°51′33″E / 31.799391°N 120.859222°E /31.799391; 120.859222 |
| Details | |
| Opened | 2002 |
| Owned by | Suzhou Municipal Government |
| Type ofharbour | Inland port |
| No. ofberths | 224[1] |
| Statistics | |
| Annual cargotonnage | 479 million tons (6th, 2014[2]) |
| Annualcontainer volume | 4.45 millionTEU (2014[3]) |
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| Traditional Chinese | 蘇州港 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 苏州港 | ||||||||||
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Port of Suzhou is the collective name of three ports around the city ofSuzhou,Jiangsu Province, China.[4] The three ports are located inZhangjiagang,Changshu andTaicang, respectively, on the lower reaches of theYangtze 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]
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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