By Xu Shuying

At 17:40 on 23rd September, ship ‘Victory of Venus’ from Indonesia berthed at F1 Berth of the General Terminal of Rudong Yangkou Port Yangguang Island. Including the 4 cargo ships ‘Jade’, ‘Summer’, ‘Singapore Pioneer’ and ‘SERI DAMAI’ which berthed at G3, G4, and G5 berths of the liquefied products terminal and CNPC Jiangsu LNG Receiving Terminal, 5 foreign ships berthed and unloaded at Yangkou Port on the same day for the first time.

Ship ‘Victory of Venus’ was loaded with 11,500 tons of paper pulp, which is major raw material of Gold Hongye Paper. On the other side, ‘Jade’, ‘Summer’ and ‘Singapore Pioneer’ were unloading. In total 25,000 tons of p-Xylene were continuously injected into the tanks on the island through the unloading arm.

Since the start of the year, in total 312 ships have berthed at the 5 berths of Yangkou Port. The total throughput is about 2.88 million tons. Among them, there are 266 domestic trade ships, and the throughput is 2.53 million tons; there are 46 foreign trade ships, and the throughput is 350,000 tons.