Taicang terminal, one of three terminals under the umbrella of Suzhou port, reached a new high in handling 1.45m teu last year, up by 42.4 per cent year-on-year. Despite this impressive increase, the total throughput figure was below the port’s own forecast for the year of 1.6m teu.
Along with Nanjing, it was one of two Yangtze ports in 2007 to break the 1m teu barrier. Zhangjiagang terminal recorded a 32.3 per cent rise to 814,200 teu in 2008, while Changshu terminal posted an increase of nearly 17 per cent to 305,300 teu.