Haikou Xiuying Port, Maritime port in Haikou, China.
Haikou Xiuying Port lies on Binhai Avenue in Xiuying District, Haikou, about 7 km west of Haikou New Port. It has separate container, bulk-cargo and ferry wharves, nearly 30 berths in all, the largest taking 5,000-tonne vessels, with 15 tower cranes and a 5,000-square-metre passenger terminal.
Xiuying wharf began in 1940, when Japanese forces built a 74.9 m long, 16–20 m wide pier east of the earlier Shuchang wharf; it was bombed late in World War II and left nearly derelict. Repaired from 1952 and in production by 1954 with a 150,000-tonne annual capacity, it took the name Haikou Port in 1956 when the port moved to Xiuying. A second expansion in 1974 raised capacity to 350,000 tonnes, and a container terminal opened in 2009.
Xiuying takes its common name from the Xiuying zhanqiao pier, a 74.9 m long, 16–20 m wide jetty built by Japanese forces in 1940 east of the earlier Shuchang wharf. The wharf itself was named for Shuchang village nearby. Since 1956 the site has been called Haikou Port, known locally as Xiuying Port, and it remains the ferry crossing for Qiongzhou Strait passengers and vehicles.
Xiuying Port lies on Binhai Avenue in Xiuying District, about 7 km west of Haikou New Port. It handles Qiongzhou Strait passenger-roll-on/roll-off ferries and container traffic, with a 5,000 sq m passenger terminal and berths for 5,000-tonne ferries. Plans call for converting it into a cruise terminal while keeping short-haul passenger, maritime law-enforcement, rescue and logistics functions.
The port operates container services to Asian ports including Kaohsiung, Shibushi, Kokura, and Hiroshima, showing the scope of its international network. These far east routes make it an important connection point for trade between Hainan and East Asia.
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