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A panorama of Yangguang Island, the man-made island serving Yangkou Port. [Photo/WeChat account: rudongfb]

Yangkou Port in Rudong county – administered by Nantong city in East China's Jiangsu province – has always focused on its development as an industrial port since it was officially open to navigation in 2011.

It now has a general wharf, a liquefied chemicals terminal and a liquefied natural gas, or LNG terminal. There are a series of port support facilities, such as dedicated channels which can handle vessels up to 70,000 metric tons and 150,000 tons, respectively, on the north and south sides of Yangguang Island – a man-made island serving Yangkou Port – and the Yellow Sea Bridge connecting the port and the island.

An LNG tanker berths at Yangguang Island. [Photo/WeChat account: rudongfb]

This year, the liquefied chemicals terminal is expected to receive and unload 200 vessels, with a throughput of 1 million tons. After it is fully opened in 2023, the annual handling capacity will exceed 4 million tons, according to port officials.

As the largest LNG terminal in the Yangtze River Delta region, in 2021 Yangkou Port received a total of 87 LNG tankers and unloaded a total of 7.18 million tons of LNG, equivalent to about 10.05 billion cubic meters of natural gas.

In addition to the PetroChina Jiangsu LNG terminal which has been completed and started operations, Yangkou Port is working on three major energy projects – including the Jiangsu LNG storage and transportation peak regulation project and the China Resources Gas Group LNG terminal project – during the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-25).