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The port is still busy at night. [Photo by Zhang Yi]

Jiaxing Port, also called Zhapu Port, is a State Class-A opening-up port. It is the only good deep water port on the north bank of Hangzhou Bay, the first river-sea intermodal transport port in Zhejiang, and the only estuary in northern Zhejiang. It houses 48 overseas productive berths including 35 with 10,000 DWT. In 2018, Jiaxing Port completed cargo throughput of 96.89 million tons, up by 9.8 percent year on year, and container throughput of 1.72 million TEUs, up by 19.4 percent. Both cargo and container throughput were record highs and took the lead in growth rates in Zhejiang province. Jiaxing Port will continuously boost in-depth cooperation with Shanghai Port and Ningbo-Zhoushan Port, accelerate the construction of high-level watercourses, improve river-sea intermodal transport capacity and become an important intermodal transport hub in the YRD.

Jiaxing is forging an aviation logistics hub. Leveraging the opportunity of building a military-civil hybrid airport, Jiaxing is driving spatial transport development to construct an intermodal international airport logistics center. A global aviation logistics hub with 12.2 billion yuan investment broke ground in 2018. The first phase of the project, with total land usage of 1,454 mu (96.93 hectares) and a building area of 600,000 square meters, mainly consists of an aviation cargo shipping hub, an aircraft maintenance zone, a global express delivery operation center, a smart logistics park and auxiliary offices. When it goes into operation in 2021, the hub will be a global operation center, an R&D innovation center and a settlement center providing aviation logistics for giants in the domestic express delivery industry.