Container center raises port profile

An empty container transportation center began operations at the Shanghai port on Saturday.

With an annual throughput of 3 million twenty-foot equivalent units or TEUs, the center is expected to further strengthen the world's largest container port's handling capability, boost domestic and foreign trade, and solidify Shanghai's status as an international shipping center, official sources said.

Located in the Yangshan Special Comprehensive Bonded Zone, the empty container transportation center for Northeast Asia is key to the port's capability to allocate resources across the world, according to Gu Jinshan, chairman of Shanghai International Port Group, the sole operator of the public terminals at the Shanghai port.