General Conditions

More than 600 years ago the great navigator Zheng He departed from Taicang Port (the ancient name as Liujiagang Port) and completed his miraculous seven times of visit to the West Ocean. Since the construction and development in 1990’s, Taicang Port was successively granted as the State First Class Port, Container Transshipment Port, the trunk-line container port at northern wing of Shanghai International Shipping Center and the No.1 Foreign Trade Port as the key project of Jiangsu Province.

At present, Taicang Port is composed of container, dry bulk cargo and petrochemical product districts. Till the end of 2008, Taicang had 48 berths, among which there were 24 berths above 10,000-DWT with design cargo throughput of 76 million tons and design container throughput capacity of 2.35 million TEUs.

Sketch of Taicang Port Development

Historic Container Throughput Statistics: 48,000 TEUs in 2002; 50,000 TEUs in 2003; 92,000 TEUs in 2004; 252,000 TEUs in 2005; 601,200 TEUs in 2006; 1,018,800 TEUs in 2007; 1,450,000 TEUs in 2008.

Historic Cargo Throughput Statistics: 4.57 million tons in 2002; 8.09 million tons in 2003; 10.4 million tons in 2004; 15.11 million tons in 2005; 22.51 million tons in 2006; 30.43 million tons in 2007; 40.04 million tons in 2008.