	chinese port underused despite congestion nearby the chinese port of ningbo is working well below capacity despite being only miles from shanghai which is seriously congested a port official said jiang feng xiang said the port the deepest in china handled mln tonnes of cargo last year up from mln in but well below its potential capacity of mln tonnes shanghai handled mln tonnes of cargo in jiang said ningbo is under utilised because of its inadequate facilities including a single track rail line linking it to hangzhou where it joins the national network ningbo handles crude oil exports and tranments of coal from north to south china and imports include fertiliser and soda ash and iron ore from brazil and australia the docks can handle s of up to tonnes and oil tankers of up to tonnes can load and unload in the harbour most of ningbo s port infrastructure has been built since official publications show a container berth and two timber and three general cargo berths will be added during the current five year plan jiang said the rail line to hangzhou will be double tracked by by maybe we will overtake shanghai he added reuter 
