Port of Ningbo-Zhoushan

Port of Ningbo-Zhoushan 宁波舟山港
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Location
Country	China
Location	Ningbo & Zhoushan, Zhejiang
Coordinates	29°56′N 121°50′E / 29.933°N 121.833°E / 29.933; 121.833
Details
Owned by	Ningbo Zhoushan Port Co., Ltd. (SSE: 601018)
Statistics
Annual cargo tonnage	744 million (2012)
Annual container volume	16.83 million (2012)

The Port of Ningbo-Zhoushan is the busiest port in the world in terms of cargo tonnage. It handled 888.96 million tons of cargo in 2015.^[1] The port is located in Ningbo and Zhoushan, on the coast of the East China Sea, in Zhejiang province on the southeast end of Hangzhou Bay, across which it faces the municipality of Shanghai.^[2]

The port is at the crossroads of the north–south inland and coastal shipping route, including canals to the important inland waterway to interior China, the Yangtze River, to the north. The port consists of several ports which are Beilun (seaport), Zhenhai (estuary port), and old Ningbo harbor (inland river port).

The operator of the port, Ningbo Zhoushan Port Co., Ltd. (NZP), is a listed company, but it is 76.31% owned by state-owned Ningbo Zhoushan Port Group Co., Ltd., As of 30 June 2017^[update].