Qingdao Port, located in the Yellow River basin and on the western Pacific Rim, is an important hub of international trade and sea-going transportation. Being a natural deepwater port, free of silt and freezing, the port has established trade relations with over 450 ports in more than 130 countries and areas.

Qingdao Port has three port areas: Old Port Area, Huangdao Oil Port Area and Qianwan New Port. As a port offering comprehensive services, it can handle a variety of general and bulk cargo, and project equipment. Container, coal, iron ore, crude oil and grain are the five major cargo types of the port, and it also handles fertilizer, alumina, cement, sodium carbonate, rubber, wool pulp, cotton, ironware, lumber, and extra-large shipment.

In 2007, the port achieved a record volume of 265million tons. Its foreign trade volume has exceeded 190million tons, the 2nd largest in Mainland China.

Situated on the eastern end of the new Continental Bridge, Qingdao Port is the first and largest transshipment port for international boxes, and the top reefer container port. A traffic volume of 9.46 million TEU was recorded in 2007.

Besides its large-scale container, crude oil and iron ore facilities, Qingdao Port is also equipped with a first-class coal terminal and a state-of-the-art grain-handling base, and the largest EDI center in Mainland China.

Qinghao Port currently has two coal berths with length of 566m each and a 200,000-tonne ore berth, which could also be used for coal handling. The coal storage yard could stock over 2 million tonnes of coal.

In 1997, Qingdao Port became the first port enterprise to be accredited to ISO9002 for cargo and passenger transport.

Qingdao Port realized cargo throughput of 265 million tonnes in 2007, and exceeded 200 million tonnes by the end of August this year, 28 days ahead the previous year. The port handled 81.51 million tonnes of iron ore in 2007, with imports of 60.86 million tonnes, ranking the first in the world.