December 12，2014 has brought good news from Ningbo port: both cargo throughput and container throughput reached a historical high. According to report, the port had a cargo throughput of 510 million tons, a 8% of increase over the corresponding period of last year; a container throughput of 20 million and 1 thousand standard containers, a12.1% increase over the corresponding period of last year..

From the beginning of 2014, Ningbo Port Co. LTD. has promoted the transformation and upgrading from traditional port for loading and unloading to port for logistics and trade, and has achieved breakthrough in both quantity and quality under the recent depression in shipping industry.

According to Mr. Jiang Wei, the spokesman and Board Secretary of Ningbo Port Co. LTD, the throughput of iron ore in Ningbo Port per year can provide the supply for 10 steel mills as Hangzhou Steel group, and the throughput of cruel oil, if refined into gasoline or diesel, can provide energy for 20 million cars a year, and the 20 million standard containers connected end-to-end, could circle the earth in three times.