Qingdao Qianwan Container Terminal is a port of China, located at Qianwan (literally The Front Bay), Qingdao

Qingdao

' also known in the West by its postal map spelling Tsingtao, is a major city with a population of over 8.715 million in eastern Shandong province, Eastern China. Its built up area, made of 7 urban districts plus Jimo city, is home to about 4,346,000 inhabitants in 2010.It borders Yantai to the...

, Shandong

Shandong

' is a Province located on the eastern coast of the People's Republic of China. Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history from the beginning of Chinese civilization along the lower reaches of the Yellow River and served as a pivotal cultural and religious site for Taoism, Chinese...

 province. Qingdao Port ranked 10th in 2008 world's busiest container ports with 10,320 thousands TEU

Twenty-foot equivalent unit

The twenty-foot equivalent unit is an inexact unit of cargo capacity often used to describe the capacity of container ships and container terminals...

, current projects were expected to raise the capacity to 15,000 thousands or more.

Phase 2 & 3 were held by Qingdao Qianwan Container Terminal Co.,Ltd (QQCT), a joint venture of Qingdao Port (Group) Co. Ltd. (31%), Dubai Ports World

Dubai Ports World

DP World is a major operator of marine ports with 49 terminals in operation and a further 9 under development across 31 countries. In 2010, DP World handled nearly 50 million TEU across its portfolio from the Americas to Asia...

 (was held by P&O

P&O

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) (29%), COSCO Pacific

COSCO Pacific

COSCO Pacific Limited , headquartered in Hong Kong, is a subsidiary and listed company of COSCO Group owned by COSCO Group. It is mainly engaged in container terminal operations, container manufacturing and leasing, shipping agency and freight forwarding.It has been a Hang Seng Index Constituent...

 (20% interests, 18.18% voting power) and A. P. Moller-Maersk Group (20%). Phase 2 and 3 had 11 berths.

Phase 4, as Qingdao New Qianwan Terminal (QQCTN), located in south bank, was a joint venture of Qingdao Qianwan Container Terminal Co.,Ltd, (80% interests) and Pan Asia International Shipping Ltd. (20% interests), which started to build in 2007. In 2009, the first 4 out of 10 berths started to operate.

Co-currently, China Merchants Holdings (International) reached an agreement with Qingdao Qianwan International Logistic Park to build a port for the Logistic Park in September 2003., which had 5 berths dedicated for container

Intermodal container

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(which CMHI holds 100% interests) and 2 multi-purpose berths. The whole project CMHI holds 90.1% interests. The project started the construction in 2005.

In December 2009, China Merchants International Container Terminal (Qingdao) Co.,Ltd., the wholly subsidiary of CMHI, reached an agreement with QQCTN to set up a new joint venture company Qingdao Qianwan United Container Terminal Co., Ltd., (QQCTU) to engaged in the construction, operation and management current and future projects in the south bank, and take-over the current berths of China Merchants (5 berths) and QQCTN (4 berths).

Data

Phase	Berths (no.)	Depth (m)	Quay Length (m)	Annual Handling capacity (thousands TEU)
1	?	?	?	?
2 & 3	11	17.5	3,400	6,500
4	10	15 – 20	3,408	6,000
CM	3	17	1,190 (all as of Dec 08)	2,500