Ports in East Asia

The busiest container port in the world every year since 2010. The Yangshan Deep Water Port, opened in 2005 across a 32 kilometer ...

Formed by merging Ningbo and Zhoushan in 2006, the busiest port on Earth by cargo tonnage, moving over 1.3 billion tonnes a year f...

A cluster of ports including Yantian, Shekou, and Chiwan that grew from fishing villages into one of the largest container gateway...

The leading port of northern China, handling containers, iron ore, crude oil, and grain. Qianwan automated terminals and the huge ...

The historic river port of the Pearl River Delta, reborn at deepwater Nansha island. Guangzhou was the only Chinese port open to W...

The maritime gateway for Beijing and northern China, about 150 kilometers up the Hai River estuary. A 2015 warehouse explosion at ...

The main port of Fujian province, facing Taiwan across the strait. Trading since the 1500s as Amoy, Xiamen now runs major terminal...

The container pioneer of Asia and the busiest port in the world through much of the 1990s. Kwai Tsing container terminals moved sh...

The premier port of Taiwan, once the third busiest container port in the world in the mid 1990s. Kaohsiung still handles around 10...

The busiest port in Korea and a top five container hub worldwide. Busan thrives on transshipment between China, Japan, Russia, and...

The largest container port of Japan by volume, with terminals at Oi, Shinagawa, and Aomi inside Tokyo Bay. Around 5 million TEU a ...

Called Zayton by Arab sailors, the largest port in the world around 1300 under the Yuan dynasty. Marco Polo sailed home from here ...

Opened to foreign trade in 1859 as one of the first treaty ports after the end of Japanese seclusion, Yokohama grew from a fishing...

During the Edo period seclusion, the artificial island of Dejima in Nagasaki harbor was the only place where Dutch merchants could...