Year-end Report: Ningbo Zhoushan Port Sets Record Annual Cargo Volume

China’s Ningbo Zhoushan Port (NZP) handled a total of 900 million tons of freight in 2016, claiming to have become the first port in the world with such a high annual cargo throughput...

Positive results come sixteen months after Ningbo Port Group merged with Zhoushan Port Group, creating the world’s busiest port in terms of cargo tonnage with a combined annual throughput of 843.7 million tons in 2014.

In 2015, NZP’s annual cargo volume amounted to 889 million tons and ranked first in the world, according to the port.