Yesterday morning in the terminal of the fourth phase of construction Shanghai Port New Yangshan Port Area A Crane fully automated embarked on a container ship the container with which the Chinese port reached for the first time the number of 50 million 20' containers handled overall in one year, setting a new world record. In On the occasion of the celebration of this milestone, the President of Shanghai International Port (Group) Co. (SIPG), Gu Jinshan, has highlighted that Shanghai will rank first this year world port for the fifteenth consecutive year.

Container traffic in the port of Shanghai is started on September 26, 1978 when the container carrier Ping Xiang Cheng of the COSCO company sailed from the port to Sydney, inaugurating the first maritime service China International Containerized Containerized. That year the traffic total of containers in Shanghai was equal to only 7,951 TEUs. In the 1994 the Chinese port exceeded the threshold of a million TEUs handled in one year and the following year entered in the top twenty of the world's container ports. In 2003 the airport exceeded ten million TEUs and then rose in 2006, 2011 and 2017 respectively at annual traffic volumes of to 20 million, 30 million and 40 million TEUs.

Currently, almost 350 services call at the port of Shanghai international seafarers connecting it to more than 700 ports from over 200 countries. SIPG highlighted that Shanghai is at the First place in the ranking of the best connectivity world port for 13 years now consecutively and the only Yangshan Port has been at the top of the Container for two years Port Performance Index of the World Bank. In the last seven years the fourth phase of Yangshan Port, which was started in 2017, repeatedly set traffic records by reaching handle a total of more than 35 million TEUs, with the 2024 which will end with a new record of over seven million TEUs. SIPG has specified that in this port area the number of port workers is 70% lower than in traditional non-automated container terminals, while The overall efficiency of the China terminal has increased by 30% and the per capita work efficiency is higher by 213% compared to traditional terminals.