Dalian Port was founded in 1899, with a history of over 100 years. It is located at the central point of Northwest Pacific, center of the arising Northeast Asian economic circle, serving as the gateway for this region to the Pacific and the rest of the world.

With broad space and deep water, free of ice and silt, the Port has superior natural conditions and is the most convenient seaport for the transshipment of cargoes between Far East, South Asia, North America and Europe.

Dalian Port boasts China’s biggest crude oil and ore terminals. It has almost 160km of specialized rail lines, 300,000 square meters of warehouses, and 1.8 million square kilometers of stacking yards.

It operates nearly 80 specialized modern berths for containers, crude oil, product oils, grains, coal, bulk minerals, chemical products and passenger transportation, among which 40 berths are over 10,000 dwt.

It is a major seaport exporting agricultural products from northeast China and Inner Mongolia. The Dayao Bay Terminal contains two berths for bulk grain export and import, with an annual capacity for throughput of 5 million tons.

Further, Dalian Port is the major import port for ores to northeast China. The ore terminal is the largest, most modern ore terminal in China and has capacity for over 2 million tons of ore, which will be expanded to 6 million tons. The ore terminal has a capacity for throughput of 20 million tons.

As the core and pioneer of the international shipping center, Dalian Port entered into a new round of massive port infrastructure construction in 2002. Total investment on port construction and redevelopment is expected to reach RMB 30 billion by 2010. The key projects include "six centers", "three bases" and "four systems".

Dalian Port (PDA) Co., Ltd.
Dalian Port Corporation Limited, established in April 2003, is a 100% state-owned enterprise transformed from the former Dalian Port Bureau after the split of governmental and commercial functions. With a registered capital of RMB 4 billion, its total value of properties ranks to RMB 20.3 billion.

Dalian Port (PDA) Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Dalian Port Corp., Ltd, was set up in November 2005 and successfully listed in Hong Kong in April 2006, a historical breakthrough for Dalian Port's ambitions to establish a modern commercial entity with diversified share-holding structure.

Currently, Dalian Port (PDA) Co., Ltd. has 43 investee companies and 2 branch companies. The Group is engaged in the following four businesses: oil/liquefied chemicals terminal and related logistics services; container terminal and related logistics services; automobile terminal and related logistics services; and port value-added services.