DALIAN, March 23, SinoCast -- The Port of Dalian, in the south of Liaodong Peninsula in North China, is expected to raise its throughput to 250 million tons and container capacity to 10 million TEUs in 2010.

The port achieved a cargo throughput of 200 million tons and 3.2 million TEUs in 2006, revealed Sun Hong, general manager of Dalian Port Corporation Limited.

Its container dock can provide berths for the world's largest 12,000-TEU-capacity ships. Its container transportation of ocean-rail through traffic has the largest throughput among China's ports. More than 40 ships run for passenger transportation on routes to Yantai, Weihai, Longkou and Tianjin. Over 5 million passengers were served annually.

The port, one of the largest terminals of oil products and liquefied products, will build a 26-meter-deep crude oil dock to serve 500,000-ton tankers.

It has set up partnership with China Nationl Petroleum Corporation, and other international chemical groups, in an effort to make it the shipping center in Northeast Asia.