Figures from the Yangtze River Administration show that April’s container throughput in Taicang terminal hit a record high of 240,000 TEU, up 24 per cent year-on-year. Throughput of general cargo jumped by almost 27 per cent to 8.1m tons.

Between January and April, Taicang reported a total of 761,200 TEU, up 28.1 per cent year-on-year. Out of this total, 14,000 TEU came from the Taiwan route. During the same period, throughput of general cargo increased by 35.3 per cent to just over 39m tons.

Taicang is located in the southeast of Jiangsu province, and is administratively part of Suzhou. The city’s terminal is located on the southern bank of the Yangtze where the river enters the sea. In 2010 its container throughput was 2.21m TEU, up 46 per cent year-on-year. This made it by far the largest container terminal on the Yangtze, with Nanjing in second place with a throughput of 1.45m TEU.