This is by far the world's largest ore carrier.It is loaded with 400,000 tons of iron ore that is enough to produce steel for building six Bird's nest Stadiums. This is the world's largest crude oil tanker underway. The diesel processed from the carried 300,000 tons of crude oil in the carrier is enough for a ship like the one beneath my feet to sail continuously for 38 years. And this is the world's largest container vessel. If to pile up its 24,000 standard containers, it will be seven times the height as Mount Qomolangma. And these three large ships will eventually arrive at the same port. Not by coincidence, but by the fact that in here we find the largest iron ore terminal in China, the largest crude oil terminal in Asia and the second largest single container terminal in the world.

This is currently the world's largest port in terms of cargo throughput, Ningbo-Zhoushan Port in Zhejiang province. It is the first and the only super port in the world that has an annual throughput volume of over 1 billion tons. Till 2024, its cargo throughput exceeds 1.37 billion tons. This port is not the end of this global transportation. You will find that expect from air transport, land roads, railways, ships, and pipelines, literally every means of transport you can think of are converged in this port.

Video footage sourced from Zhejiang Daily Ningbo Branch

Editor: Zhong Xinyi