According to Mr Gu Qiangsheng, general manager of Wuhan Port Group, all the facilities at the city’s Yangsi container terminal will be moved to Yangluo terminal from 18 May. The relocation is scheduled to be completed by the end of August. The vacated site will be used for property development in line with government planning.

Until now, Yangsi terminal has handled the bulk of the city’s container volumes. Situated in Wuhan ETDZ, it has served major shippers such as automaker DPCA and TPV, the computer display OEM. Yangluo terminal, on the other hand, has been the focus of development for the local government over recent years. It is situated 25km downstream of central Wuhan in Xinzhou district. The provincial government has already approved a plan to turn Yangluo into a bonded terminal. Container throughput at Yangluo during the first three months of 2011 increased by 27.6 per cent year-on-year to 74,500 TEU.