According to Ningbo Municipal Bureau of Traffic and Port Administration on July 13, this year, the Port of Ningbo has attached great importance to the work of container shipping, and in the first half of this year, the volume of standard containers the Port of Ningbo handled broke through 5 million standard containers. Only in June alone, the port handled 940,000 standard containers, making a new high in the monthly handling capacity.

　　Statistics show that from January to June, the port handled 518,000 standard containers, increased by 17% over the same period of previous year. In the period, the containers handled have amounted to 5 million, and for this, the Port of Ningbo is listed in the 4th position in all the ports in mainland China. In the first half of this year, the cargo-handling capacity of the port of Ningbo reaches 176.48 million tons, increased by 5.6% over the same period of last year.