Hefei, capital city of Anhui Province, East China, will start building a comprehensive terminal including container berths in the first half of 2008.
The terminal is at the Yinghe Port Area on the bank of the Nanfei River, a section of the 148-km-long Hefei-Yuxikou freshwater shipping route linking the Yangtze River.
Its first phase project covering 27.73 hectares and 700m river bank includes one 1,000-tonnage general cargo berth, three 1,000-tonnage container berths and supporting equipment. It will invest US$40.1 million and annual cargo volume will be 400,000 tonnes and container throughput 100,000 TEUs.
The terminal is the first container terminal of the port, which now transports containers around the city on land to Wuhu or Nanjing and then ship to Shanghai for ocean shipping.
The Hefei-Yuxikou freshwater shipping route containing three sections, namely the Nanfei River channel, the Chao Lake channel and the Yuxi River channel, was completed in October 2006, providing through shipping from Hefei to Shanghai.
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