Port of Ningbo is one of the most important and busiest ports in mainland China.It is located on the rich coastal province of Zhejiang.The port is at the crossroad of the north-south shipping route and the important waterway of the Yangtze River. The port comprises several ports which are Beilun (seaport), Zhenhai (estuary port) and old Ningbo harbor (inland river port), Daxie and Chuanshan. It is one of a growing number of ports in China with a cargo throughput volume exceeding 100 million tons annually.
Ningbo Port is involved in economic trade with cargo shipment, raw materials and manufactured goods from as far as North and South America and Oceania. It has economic trade with over 560 ports from more than 90 countries and regions in the world.
The Port of Ningbo has recently been merged with the neighbouring Port of Zhoushan to form a combined cargo-handling centre. The combined Ningbo-Zhoushan Port had a traffic of 627,000,000 tons of cargo in 2010, making it the second-largest port in the world (after Shanghai) in terms of cargo volume.