News of the merger came since early August, as Shanghai-listed Ningbo Port suspended its shares trading from 4 August, before confirming the merger on 29 September.
The ports of Ningbo and Zhoushan, south of Shanghai, are neighbouring ports. The container throughput of the ports are recorded under Ningbo-Zhoushan port, with Ningbo accounting for the majority of volumes.
In the first half of this year, Ningbo-Zhoushan registered container throughput of 10.5m teu, an increase of 9% year-on-year. Ningbo port handled 10.2m teu while Zhoushan port only moved 300,000 teu.
In 2014, Ningbo-Zhoushan was ranked the world’s fifth busiest container port with a total throughput of 19.44m teu.
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