We have recently learned that Fuzhou Port in 2025 saw for the first time an annual throughput of more than 100 million tons of goods for foreign trade, ranking among a cohort of Chinese ports with an annual throughput of at least 100 million tons of goods for foreign trade. This marks that Fuzhou Port has made strides in enhancing opening-up and high-quality development, and seen substantive improvements in its comprehensive level.

Infrastructures in Fuzhou Port have been comprehensively upgraded. RMB 4.5 billion worth of funds were injected in 2025 into port and shipping construction, comprising 47.4% of the total expenses of Fujian Province’s coastal ports. Infrastructures in Fuzhou Port are the most advanced in Fujian Province. After the 200,000 tons-level container terminal expansion project at Jiangyin terminal was completed and put into operation, Fujian Port has grown into a super cluster of container terminals whose annual throughput capacity exceeds 3 million TEUs.

In order to unleash foreign trade growth potential on a continual basis, faster steps have been taken to expand the network of shipping routes across the globe. Fuzhou Port has launched the world’s first China-Europe Arctic container shipping route in 2025, Fujian Province’s first shipping route to South Pacific island countries as well as several direct ro/ro routes, thus constructing a network of ocean transportation across the globe. Fuzhou Port has maintained its superiority in cross-strait transportation, and cemented its position as a core hub of transportation of goods from the Chinese mainland to Taiwan, with a throughput of 13.02 million tons of Taiwan-bound goods.

Furthermore, the innovation-driven development strategy has greatly facilitated cost reduction and efficiency improvement in the port. The first joint dispatching center for sea-rail combined transport in Fujian Province was put into operation at Jiangyin terminal of Fuzhou Port to ensure direct flows between the port and the railway station. As a result, container transportation has become 50% more efficient, the handling cost per TEU has reduced by RMB 30, and freight trains that are subject to sea-rail combined transport have gained competitive edges in transporting foreign-bound goods. (Text by Wang Guanghui, Photo by Feng Wenyu)