The shipping platform

Location: Xiamen Island is situated at the estuary of the Kuilung River, 10km from the sea in the Taiwan Straits. General overview: The port is divided up into several districts, Songyu, Haichang, Zhaoying and new ports of Liuwudian and Houshi Terminals on the mainland. Heping, Dongdu, Haitian and Gao Oil Terminal on Xiamen Island, which is joined to the mainland by Haicang and Xiamen Bridges. Dongdu Port District: An important port district mainly handling containers and conventional break bulk cargo, with 35 berths, including 18 deepwater berths. Haicang Port District: Handling container and break bulk cargo, transhipment, storage, refrigeration and other logistics services. Eight deep water berths for vessels of 10,000DWT and over. Songu Port District: There are container berths for sixth generation container vessels with a total of 7 being constructed for over 100,000DWT vessels. Zhaoying Port District: Ten berths, including 6 berths for vessels of 10,000DWT or above, handling passenger/vehicle Ro-Ro transportation. Houshi Port District: A specialised coal berth for vessels of 100,000DWT and a heavy cargo berth for vessels of 5,000DWT. Shima Port District: Twenty three berths for passenger and cargo transportation. The port's main cargoes include steel, cement, chemical fertiliser, grain, granite, containers and general cargo. Huge berth expansion is underway for container and LNG cargoes and there has been a large expansion of trade with Taiwan. Load line zone: Summer. Max size: Dongdu: LOA 220m, draught 11.5m at HW, airdraught 52m, 50,000DWT. Hiacang: The deep draught route from sea through Qingyu Shuidao to Haicang District is suitable for vessels up to draught 13.5m, 100,000DWT with the tide. Elsewhere vessels up to 50,000DWT can be berthed alongside.