Nantong Port is a major river port in the Yangtze Delta and one of China’s category-one national ports which is opened to foreign trade. It provides easy access to the Yangtze region by road and waterway which is an ideal hub port for cargo trans-shipment.

As an important hub port of the country, it houses a shoreline of 4.2 km and a land mass of 1.5 sq km with 5 major terminals namely Tongzhou Terminal, Jianghai Terminal, Yaogang Terminal, Langshan Terminal and the Container Terminal. They together operate 24 berths, including 2 berths for vessels of 150,000 tonnage, 5 berths for vessels of 70,000 tonnage, 4 berths for vessels of 50,000 tonnage and 3 berths for vessels of 10,000 tonnage. The main cargoes handled by Nantong Port Group are iron ore, minerals, cement, steel, coal, sulphur, fertilizers, grains and edible oil.

2010 is the fifth consecutive year that Nantong Port had reached over 100 million tonnes annual throughput. In 2010, annual cargo throughput of Nantong Port Group was around 55 million tonnes and container throughput was 392,000 TEUs, representing 0.4% and 14% year-on-year growth respectively.