The Port of Huludao is an artificial deep-water international

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on the coast of

Huludao Huludao ( zh, s=葫芦岛 , t=葫蘆島 , p=Húludǎo), formerly known as Jinxi () until 1994, is a coastal prefecture-level city in southwestern Liaoning province, People's Republic of China. Its name literally means "Gourd Island", referring t ...

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, on the

Liaodong Bay Liaodong Bay is largest and longest of the three main bays of the Bohai Sea, the innermost gulf of the Yellow Sea. The other two bays are Laizhou Bay to the south and Bohai Bay to the southwest. Although named after the Liaodong Peninsula (wh ...

. It is one of several smaller ports being rapidly expanded in Liaoning Province in order to service the

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Setting

Huludao Port opens to the middle section of

. The port location was originally selected by British engineers hired by the Qing government, who considered that the shelter provided by the nearby mountains gave it an advantage over existing ports and alternative sites alike.

History

The Port of Huludao was founded in 1908 by the then

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governor

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as a way to provide an alternative to the overloaded

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and

Yingkou Yingkou ( zh, s=, t=, p=Yíngkǒu) is a coastal prefecture-level city of central southern Liaoning province, People's Republic of China, on the northeastern shore of Liaodong Bay. It is the third-smallest city in Liaoning with a total area of , a ...

ports. Construction work started in 1910, only to stop abruptly with the outbreak of the

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. In 1930, Manchuria's warlord

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once more started work, only to be thwarted again by the Mukden Incident. It was only during Japanese occupation that the port was completed to an annual capacity of 1 million tons. After the war, the Port was mostly used as a naval base by the

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. It was only in 1984 that it started by shared for civilian use again, and in 1997 that it was fully reopened for internal trade. It was only in 2007 that it was reopened for foreign trade. Current plans hope to make the port into a 100 million ton throughput port by 2016.

Layout

Huludao Port operates in four port areas. The main area is the Liutaogou Port Area (), with 4 berths being expanded to 7. The North Port Area, opening to the Longwan Bay and the Xincheng Port Area to the southwest of the city are intended as general cargo ports. The under construction Suizhong Port Area () will be a large-scale coal terminal with 1 50,000DWT berth, 1 70,000DWT berth and 2 100,000DWT berths and a capacity for 50 million tons/year. The wharf length will be 1130m, and

fairway depth Fairway is a part of a water body (bay, harbor, river) containing the navigable channel (also known as a ''ship channel''), a route suitable for ships of the larger size (with draft closer to the draft limit). Fairway depth, width, and heigh ...

of -16.4m. The Bohai Shipyard () is located to the east of the new port, on the site of the original port.

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