Xiamen Investing In Its Cruise Port

Xiamen is investing $16 million on its Dongdu-area cruise ship home port. Xiamen is a major port city on China’s southeast coast, across a strait from Taiwan. The port authority is upgrading its four cruise berth terminals to accommodate ships as large as 220,000 tons. The upgraded port will cover about 470,000 square feet. The first phase of the project includes four cruise berths at the cruise terminal , a passenger joint inspection building, a hotel cluster, an entertainment center, a business center and a cruise service center.

The city aims to make itself a global shipping hub and the Xiamen International Cruise Terminal is expected to drive tourism as well as serve as a gateway between China and Taiwan. The upgrades will be complete in 2018. 

The Port of Xiamen is a deepwater port located in the mouth of the Jiulongjiang River on the southern coastline of Fujian province.  It is ranked the 8th largest container port in China and ranks 17th among the world's top 100, which the capacity to handle the Ultra-large container vessels. In 2013, Xiamen handled 191 million tons of cargo, including 8.08 million TEUs of containers.[1] In 2010, Xiamen Port incorporated the neighboring port of Zhangzhou to form the largest port of China's Southeast.

The world's top 20 shipping companies have all established major shipping routes and operations in Xiamen. A total of 68 shipping routes serve over 50 countries to almost all the major ports in the world, yielding an average 469 ship calls at the port each month. In addition, passenger services also operate from Xiamen to Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Shanghai and Wenzhou,[4] as well as frequent ferry service to the Shuitou terminal in Kinmen Island (R.O.C.).