The Port of Chongqing is the port of the Chongqing municipality, laid out along the shores of the Yangtze, Jialing and Wujiang rivers. It is the deepest inland class I port in China. Chongqing Port has 181 production berths of all kinds, including 4 main multimodal transfer stations. The Yangtze river channel is 6 m deep during the wet season and allows navigation of ships up to 5,000DWT, the furthest upriver ships that large can travel. It had a total cargo throughput of 124 million tonnes in 2012. Chongqing is the main berth for sightseeing boats due for the Three Gorges.
History
Layout and Facilities
The Port of Chongqing is spread throughout Chongqing Municipality, and it is divided into 8 port areas, each in turn divided into several operation areas: the main three hubs of Main City, Wanzhou and Fuling, and five ancillary areas.
The Main City Port Area :
*Mao'ertuo Operations Area
*Jiulongpo Operations Area : It is being taken offline to re-purpose its land for development.
*Tongguanyi Operations Area :
*Guoyuan Operations Area : The recently opened wharf is the larger intermodal terminal in China.
*Shawan Operations Area :
*Fo'eryan Operations Area :
* Cuntan Operations Area : The Cuntan Free Trade Area is the first inland bonded logistics zone in China. The river port has 7 unloading docks with a throughput capacity of 1.4 million TEU per year, or 1.4 million 20-foot containers per year.
* Jingkou Operations Area :
*Lijiatuo Operations Area :
*Youniuxi Operations Area :
*Xingang Operations Area :
*Tushui Operations Area :
*Caijia Operations Area :
*Huangqian Operations Area : 68 ha of area, 850 m of coastline, berth 328m.
*Chaoyanghe Operations Area :
*Chayuan Operations Area :
*Guojiatuo Operations Area :
*Jiguanshi Operations Area :
*Maobeituo Operations Area :
Fuling Port Area :
Wanzhou Port Area :13 cargo operations areas, 7 passenger operation areas.
* Hongxigou Operations Area : On the Three Gorges Reservoir. Specialized intermodal river-rail exchange. 4Mt and 50,000TEU annual capacity. 3 berths of 3,000DWT, 3 berths of 1,000DWT. Second phase: 15ha total area, 5ha of warehouses. Under construction 2,000DWT general cargo berth, 3,000DWT coal berth, 2,000DWT Ro-ro berth, 2 container berths.
* Qingcaobei Operations Area
* Honghuadi Operations Area
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Yongchuan Port Area :
Jiangjin Port Area:
Hechuan Port Area:
Fengjie Port Area:
Wulong Port Area:
Administration
The Port of Chongqing is run by the Chongqing Port Services and Logistics Group Ltd. Co., formed in 2006 by the merger of the Chongqing Port Service Group, the Chongqing Supplies Group, the Wanzhou Harbor Group and Fuling Port Authority. One of its subsidiaries, Chongqing Gangjiu, is listed in the Shanghai Stock Exchange
Operations
Chongqing focuses on its intermodal capacity as a transshipment center, and as an inland link to the large oceanic ports downriver. It even defines itself as a "wet dry port".
