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| name = Port of Xiamen <br/> 厦门港
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{{Infobox Chinese|s=厦门港|t=廈門港|p=Xià Mén Gǎng|w=Hah Mùhn Góng|poj=E-mng Kang|order=st}}
The '''Port of Xiamen''' or '''Port of Amoy''' or '''Amoy Port''' is an important deep water port located on [[Xiamen Island]], the adjacent mainland coast, and along the estuary of the [[Jiulongjiang River|Jiulong River]] in southern [[Fujian]], [[China]]. It is one of the trunk line ports in the Asia-Pacific region. It is ranked the 8th-largest container port in China and ranks 17th in the world. It is the 4th port in China with the capacity to handle 6th-generation large container vessels. In 2013, Xiamen handled 191 million tons of cargo, including 8.08 million [[Twenty-foot equivalent unit|TEU]]s of containers.<ref name="english.xm.gov.cn">[http://english.xm.gov.cn/Invest_Xiamen/Investment_Climate/200612/t20061211_147176.htm Xiamen Municipal Government, P.R.China] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070310120721/http://english.xm.gov.cn/Invest_Xiamen/Investment_Climate/200612/t20061211_147176.htm |date=2007-03-10 }}</ref> On 31 August 2010, Xiamen Port incorporated the neighboring port of [[Zhangzhou]] to form the largest port of China's Southeast. This was a relatively uncommon case of ports merging across jurisdictions.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://economists-pick-research.hktdc.com/business-news/article/Business-Alert-China/Xiamen-Port-and-Zhangzhou-Port-Two-in-One/bacn/en/1/1X000000/1X074IKY.htm|title = HKTDC Research}}</ref>

The port comprises twelve areas including Heping, Dongdu, Haitian, Shihushan, Gaoqi, and Liuwudian{{better source needed|reason=Liuwudian is in Xiang'an District?|date=August 2019}} (in [[Tong'an District]]).<ref name="CHINA Ports Xiamen Ports">[http://www.asiatradehub.com/china/xiamen.asp CHINA Ports (Xiamen Ports )<!--Bot generated title-->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070408063629/http://asiatradehub.com/china/xiamen.asp |date=2007-04-08 }}</ref>

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]],<ref>[http://www.chinavista.com/xiamen/invest/infra.html Xiamen – Modern Infrastructure<!-- Bot generated title-->]</ref> as well as frequent ferry service to the Shuitou terminal in [[Kinmen]] Island (R.O.C.).

The port is owned and operated by Xiamen Port Authority ({{lang|zh|厦门港口管理局}}) which is a department of the Xiamen Municipal Government.<ref>[http://www.portxiamen.com.cn/ 厦门港口管理局官方网站-Port of Xiamen<!--Bot generated title-->]</ref>

The port is part of the [[21st Century Maritime Silk Road]] that runs from the Chinese coast to [[Singapore]], towards the southern tip of [[India]] to [[Mombasa]], from there through the Red Sea via the [[Suez Canal]] to the Mediterranean, there to the Upper Adriatic region to the northern Italian hub of [[Trieste]] with its connections to [[Central Europe]] and the [[North Sea]].<ref>[https://www.shipmag.it/via-della-seta-sei-nuovi-servizi-marittimi-per-europa-e-asia-il-bilancio-al-silk-road-maritime-forum-di-xiamen/ Via della Seta: sei nuovi servizi marittimi per Europa e Asia. Il bilancio al “Silk Road Maritime Forum” di Xiamen]</ref><ref>[https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/three-dimensional-transport-system-connects-xiamen-with-the-world-301216818.html Three-dimensional transport system connects Xiamen with the world]</ref> The port is also home to a [[China Coast Guard|coast guard]] base.

== Infrastructure ==
Xiamen is a well-developed first-class port. Dongdu harbor is located on Haicang district which is on the mainland.<ref name="CHINA Ports Xiamen Ports"/> The coast line in the harbor area stretches for {{convert|30|km|mi}}, and the depth of water reaches up to {{convert|17|m|ft}}.

The port offers 74 berths. One can handle vessels of 100,000 or more [[tonne]]s, 23 berths are for 10,000 or more tonnes, and two handle vessels between berths for 5,000 and 10,000 tonnes. There are nine container terminals.<ref name="english.xm.gov.cn"/>

==Approach Channel==
Ships approaching and departing from Xiamen Port uses the channel between ROC-controlled [[Dadan Island]] and PRC-controlled Qingyu Island to access the [[Taiwan Strait]]. Starting December 2015, Taiwan's [[Ministry of Transportation and Communications (Taiwan)|Ministry of Transportation and Communications]] opened the channel between [[Dadan Island]] and [[Menghu Islet]] (both are ROC-controlled) as a shortcut for ships using the Liuwudian, Xiang'an area of the Xiamen Port.<ref>{{Cite news|title=刘五店海翔码头试运行 为厦门离台湾最近港区|url=http://tw.people.com.cn/n1/2016/0526/c14657-28380553.html|work=中新网|publisher=人民网|date=2016-05-26}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=交通部 104.12.16. 交航(一)字第10498002401號公告|url=https://motclaw.motc.gov.tw/webMotcLaw2018/SLaw/Content?soid=6031|publisher=中華民國交通部|date=2015-12-16}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=厦门湾船舶航行及停泊指南|url=http://www.fj.msa.gov.cn/fjmsacms/cms/pages/250510547246770000/attachments/厦门湾船舶航行及停泊指南（2020年版）-2020-11.pdf|publisher=厦门海事局|year=2020}}</ref>

==Developments==
Xiamen is the first [[Mainland China|mainland]] port to start the direct shipment of cargo to [[Kaohsiung]] in [[Taiwan (island)|Taiwan]]. The initial cargo handling capacity totalled 1.34 million TEUs of containers.<ref name="english.xm.gov.cn"/>

==References==
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==External links==
{{commons category|Port of Xiamen}}
*{{in lang|zh}} [http://www.portxiamen.com.cn/ Xiamen Port Authority]
*{{in lang|en}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20070310120721/http://english.xm.gov.cn/Invest_Xiamen/Investment_Climate/200612/t20061211_147176.htm Xiamen Government website on the port]

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