Wendy Zhang/ Shanghai Daily news

Yangshan Deep Water Port registered its largest daily throughput of 12,000 TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units) on January 8, one month after opening for business.
Typically, ports usually take four or five years to reach a throughput of 12,000 TEUs. However, by the morning of January 9, Yangshan port had recorded a total of 158 container ships for its international services. That is to say, a cargo ship entered and departed the port every four or five hours, said Jiang Gongsheng, general manager with Shanghai Shengdong International Container Terminal Co Ltd, the operator of the first-phase of Yangshan Port.
To date, the port boasts total throughput of more than 200,000 TEUs, with an average of more than 6,000 TEUs a day, reaching the level of a global top-rank port.