Northeast China to increase port facilities
Liaoning, a major steel making province in Northeast China, plans to turn its port city of Dalian into a leading international shipping hub in fifteen years. Current plans have Dalian Port becoming a regional shipping hub that will handle 250 million tons and 10 million TEUs annually by 2010. The city will then grow the regional hub into a global one capable of handling 300 million tons and 15 million TEUs annually by 2020. The hub will house special docks and warehouses for containers, oil products, grain, automobiles, steel and iron, ore and large equipment. The iron ore handling capacity of the port will reach 20 million tons.