Ningbo-Zhoushan Port ranked the 1st position on the list of port comprehensive competitiveness in 2008, jointly issued by ShippingChina.com and China Port and Shipping Institute.

This year’s list attached great importance to the solution to emergent events and the anti-risk capacity, regarding them as vital technical indexes in comparison. Shanghai Port ranked the 2nd place on the list, with a total score of 239.87, 3.22 points less than Ningbo-Zhoushan Port. Qingdao Port ranked the 3rd place; the following ports are Tianjin Port, Guangzhou Port, Shenzhen Port, Dalian Port and Lianyungang Port. Against the downturn of the world’s shipping market, Ningbo-Zhoushan Port constructed the nation’s first all-weather manual deep water channel with a capacity of 300,000 tons, and through a network of satellite ports and inland ports, Ningbo-Zhoushan Port greatly expanded its cargo source hinterlands and its container throughput reached a new high of 10 million TEUs, showing strong competitiveness in the aspect of anti-risk ability.

This year’s list also made detailed analyses on the impact from world economic crisis upon Chinese ports and their core competitiveness, offering important references for port investment, financing, management and policy decision.

According to the introduction made by Mr. Kang Shuchun, CEO of ChinaShipping.com, since its first release in 2002, this annual port comprehensive competitiveness list has drawn wide focus from shipping industry and news media both at home and abroad, and the list has been regarded as a wind vane for the development of Chinese ports.