From January to October, the port throughput at Taixing city, located in East China's Jiangsu province, hit a record-breaking 62.85 million metric tons, a year-on-year increase of 10.71 percent.
Of that, a total of 28 million tons were exported, up 13.34 percent year-on-year, while 34.85 million tons were imported, a rise of 8.69 percent.
Recently, chemical tanker Zhongtuo 16 docked at the Jinyan Storage Liquid Chemical Terminal.
Chemical tanker Zhongtuo 16 docks at the Jinyan Storage Liquid Chemical Terminal. [Photo/WeChat account: txfabu]
It carried a consignment of some 1,500 tons of butyl acrylate, an organic compound produced by manufacturer Taixing Jinjiang Chemical Industry, which was offloaded from the cargo hold through a pipeline to waiting supply vessels.
The Jinyan terminal is mainly engaged in the loading and unloading business of alcohol, esters, alkanes and other goods. From January to October, its cargo throughput topped 1 million tons, representing an increase of nearly 40 percent compared with the same period last year.
Elsewhere, the Qiwei public wharf has continued to promote the berthing of large sea vessels this year, comprehensively improving the port berthing capacity.
In the first 10 months, the wharf posted a throughput of 16.48 million tons, with a target throughput of 20 million tons for the full year.