The Port of Qingdao is a seaport on the

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in the vicinity of

Qingdao Qingdao, Mandarin: , (Qingdao Mandarin: t͡ɕʰiŋ˧˩ tɒ˥) is a prefecture-level city in the eastern Shandong Province of China. Located on China's Yellow Sea coast, Qingdao was long an important fortress. In 1897, the city was ceded to G ...

(Tsingtao),

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. It is one of the ten busiest ports in the world (7th in 2019, considering total cargo volume). Qingdao Port consists of four areas, which are often themselves referred to as ports due to their size: Dagang port area, Qianwan port area, Huangdong oil port area (for

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), and Dongjiakou ( zh, s=董家口) port area, the latter being located 40 kilometres south of Qingdao city. Including the

Qingdao Qianwan Container Terminal Qingdao Qianwan Container Terminal is a port of China, located at Qianwan, Qingdao, Shandong province. Qingdao Port ranked 10th in 2008 world's busiest container ports with 10,320 thousands TEU, current projects were expected to raise the capac ...

and the Qingdao Cosport International Container Terminal, which are located in different areas, Qingdao also has a large terminal for handling iron ore.

History

In 2011, the Qingdao Port, together with three other Chinese ports in East China's

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Province, signed a strategic alliance with the largest port of the Republic of Korea (ROK). The alliance included Shandong's Qingdao Port,

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, Port of Rizhao,

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, and the ROK's Port of Busan and aimed to build a shipping and logistics center in Northeast Asia. In May, 2014, Qingdao Port International Co. Ltd. announced it was seeking to raise up to US$377 million in a Hong Kong initial public offering. In August 2014, it was revealed that the firm was involved in two lawsuits with the global warehousing firm Pacorini Logistics, claiming a total of $58.4 million in damages. This followed a lawsuit the firm had already been subject to from

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. The port is part of the

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that runs from the Chinese coast to

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, towards the southern tip of

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; from there through the Red Sea via the

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and to the Mediterranean; and from there to the Upper Adriatic region to the northern Italian hub of

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with connections to

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and the

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. A world's first suspended monorail capable of carrying fully loaded 20' and 40' containers has been under construction since 2020 at the Port of Qingdao, the first phase of which was put into operation in 2021.

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External links

Qingdao Port (Group) Ltd. website
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History

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