Port of Ningbo
| Port of Ningbo-Zhoushan 宁波舟山港 |
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| Country |
 People's Republic of China
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| Location | Ningbo & Zhoushan, Zhejiang |
| Coordinates | 29°52′N 121°33′E / 29.867°N 121.550°ECoordinates: 29°52′N 121°33′E / 29.867°N 121.550°E |
| Details | |
| Owned by | Ningbo Port Group Limited |
| Statistics | |
| Annual cargo tonnage | 744 million (2012) |
| Annual container volume | 16.83 million (2012) |
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| Simplified Chinese | 宁波舟山港 | ||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 寧波舟山港 | ||||||||||
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Níngbō-Zhōushān Gǎng |
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| Romanization | nyin1 pou1 kaon2 |
The Port of Ningbo-Zhoushan (: ) is a Chinese port that is the busiest in the world in terms of cargo tonnage, it handled 888.96 million tons cargoes in 2015, keep ranking first of the all cargo ports around the world. The port is located in Ningbo and Zhoushan, on the coast of the East China Sea, in Zhejiang province south of Hangzhou Bay, across which it faces Jiaxing and Shanghai.
The port is at the crossroads of the north-south inland and coastal shipping route, including canals to the important inland waterway to interior China, the Yangtze River, to the north. The port comprises several ports which are Beilun (seaport), Zhenhai (estuary port), and old Ningbo harbor (inland river port).
Ningbo Port was established in 738 during China's ancient history. During the Tang Dynasty (618-907), it was known as one of the three major seaports for foreign trade under the name "Mingzhou", along with Yangzhou and Guangzhou.
In the Song Dynasty, it became one of the three major port cities for foreign trade together with Guangzhou and Quanzhou. It was designated as one of the "Five Treaty Ports" along with Guangzhou, Xiamen, Fuzhou and Shanghai after the 1842 Treaty of Nanking ending the First Opium War.
The Port of Ningbo was merged with the neighbouring Port of Zhoushan in 2006 to form a combined cargo-handling centre. The combined Ningbo-Zhoushan Port handled a total cargo volume of 744,000,000 metric tons of cargo in 2012, making it the largest port in the world in terms of cargo tonnage, surpassing the Port of Shanghai for the first time.
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