Port of Suzhou
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Port of Suzhou is an important inland river transport hub. It is in situated in Jiangsu
Jiangsu
' is a province of the People's Republic of China, located along the east coast of the country. The name comes from jiang, short for the city of Jiangning , and su, for the city of Suzhou. The abbreviation for this province is "苏" , the second character of its name...

 province. Port of Suzhou consist of three ports in Zhangjiagang, Changshu and Taicang on the lower reaches of the Yangtze River
Yangtze River
The Yangtze, Yangzi or Cháng Jiāng is the longest river in Asia, and the third-longest in the world. It flows for from the glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau in Qinghai eastward across southwest, central and eastern China before emptying into the East China Sea at Shanghai. It is also one of the...

. The total cargo throughput of 127 million tons in 2006. It is the largest inland river port in China. The majority of the port trade is in coal, ore, steel, and construction materials such as cement.

Port Infrastructure

Port of Suzhou consist of 132 production berths in total, 80 of them being above ten thousand tons in tonnage. The port has trade with 90 international and domestic shipping lines.

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