Container Wharf Opens in Southeast China Port City

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Container Wharf Opens in Southeast China Port City

A container wharf which can berth 100,000-ton vessels has opened to shipping in Fuzhou, capital of southeast China's Fujian province, Fuzhou Customs announced.

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A container wharf which can berth 100,000-ton vessels has opened to shipping in Fuzhou, capital of southeast China's Fujian province, Fuzhou Customs announced.

The newly-established container wharf is within the port of Jiangyin in Fuqing, a coastal city under Fuzhou's jurisdiction, the customs source said.

Jiangyin port is a natural harbor with an average channel depth ranging from above 17 meters to 19 meters.

The nine to 15km-wide harbor that boasts a 7.12 km coastline, would be developed into one of China's key transfer harbors for international container and freight transport in line with planning by the State Ministry of Communications, the source noted.

The new wharf was co-funded by the Fuqing municipal government,the Fuzhou Port Group and two port groups from Singapore and Indonesia, with total investment topping 450 million yuan (54.2 million US dollars. It was expected to handle 300,000 standard containers by 2005, the source said.

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