The first phase of Wanzhou’s Jiangnan Tuokou container terminal area was completed on 20 December. Work started on the project in Chongqing municipality in March 2005 and its annual throughput capacity is 240,000 teu.
Some Rmb390m has so far been spent on the project, a figure that will rise to Rmb1.2bn when the second phase is completed. The two phases have a designed annual throughput capacity of 500,000 teu.