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Port of Meizhou Bay 湄州湾港 | |
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Country | People's Republic of China |
Location | Quanzhou, Fujian; Meizhou Island, Fujian; and Putian, Fujian |
UN/LOCODE | CNQZJ, CNSNH, CNWIT, CNXMG, CNQALN |
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No. of berths | 147 |
The Port of Meizhou Bay was created in 2012 by merging the ports of Quanzhou, Meizhou Island and Putian, as part of Fujian Province's rationalization of ports, which cutting down[ ungrammatical] the number of ports in the province into three large consolidated ports ( Xiamen, Meizhou Bay and Fuzhou). In 2012, Meizhou Bay port had 147 berths, 24 with 10,000 DWT capacity, and had a total cargo throughput of 114 million tonnes. [1]
Port of Quanzhou ( Chinese: 泉州港) is a seaport with a number of facilities in Quanzhou prefecture-level city, in the southeastern part of Fujian province ( Minnan), China. [2] Its UN/LOCODE is CNQZJ.
Port of Quanzhou was the busiest port during the era of the Tang dynasty. [3] The port peaked in activity during the Yuan Dynasty. [3] The medieval western travellers to China; Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta, Giovanni de' Marignolli, and Odoric all have transited through Quanzhou. [3] Polo labelled it as one of world's the largest port and Battuta equated the port to the Port of Alexandria during the time. [3]
The port has facilities in four bays of Taiwan Strait. They are Meizhou Bay, Quanzhou Bay, Shenhu Bay and Weitou Bay. [4] It is managed by the Quanzhou Port Authority. [5]