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	MSN Encarta - Shanghai
		Shanghai, city in eastern China, situated on the Huangpu River, a tributary of the Yangtze River, near the Yangtze’s mouth to the East China Sea.
		Shanghai grew west, south and north from this area, and the newer sections, typically with gridlike streets, are a result of the city’s growth as a center of commerce, shipping, and industry.
		Shanghai is China’s leading center of industry, and industrial activity ranges from smelting at China’s largest integrated iron and steel plant, located at suburban Baoshan, to the manufacture of complex machinery and precision equipment, such as cellular telephones, fax machines, color television tubes, automobiles, textiles, foodstuffs, and electronics.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761569265 (1256 words)

	Shanghai - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shanghai was lost to Japan in the Battle of Shanghai in 1937 until its surrender in 1945.
		Shanghai has an excellent public transportation system and in contrast to other major Chinese cities has clean streets and surprisingly little air pollution (ranked 22nd best in the 2003 official report on air quality among 42 major cities in China, compared to 36th, 35th and 41th for Beijing, Tianjin and Chongqing respectively).
		Shanghai is the birthplace of everything considered modern in China; and was the cultural and economic center of East Asia for the first half of the twentieth century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shanghai (3870 words)

	Port - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A port is a facility at the edge of an ocean, river, or lake for receiving ships and transferring cargo and persons to them.
		A fishing port is a type of port or harbor facility particularly suitable for landing and distributing fish.
		A dry port is a term sometimes used to describe a yard used to place containers or conventional bulk cargo, usually connected to a seaport by rail or road.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Port (395 words)

	SHANGHAI - LoveToKnow Article on SHANGHAI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Shanghai lies low, and, though the early winter is enjoyable, snow and ice being occasionally seen, the summer months are excessively hot.
		From 1856 to 1864 the trade of Shanghai vastly increased, and its prosperity culminated between 1860 and 1864, when the influx of Chinese into the foreign settlement in consequence of the advance E. of the Tai-ping rebels added enormously to the value of land.
		Shanghai, moreover, is not only a port of trade, but is rapidly becoming a large manufacturing and industrial centre.
	27.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SH/SHANGHAI.htm (2404 words)

	Shanghai, world's second-largest port
		Shanghai, China's largest port, has became the world's second-largest in terms of freight volume in 2004 after Singapore, surpassing Rotterdam in the Netherlands, a report said on Monday.
		Shanghai port handled 379 million tonnes of freight last year, 19.8 per cent more than a year earlier and 2.3 per cent less than Singapore, which handled 388 million tonnes of cargo in 2004, Shanghai Daily reported.
		Shanghai is currently building a big deep water port on an island just outside the city, which is scheduled to start service by the end of the year to cater to exploding demand in the region.
	www.rediff.com /money/2005/jan/17port.htm (258 words)

	Hutchison Joins Shanghai Port Building
		Shanghai International Port (Group) Co Ltd signed a contract yesterday with Hutchison Port Holding Limited, the daughter company of Hutchison Whampoa controlled by the Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing, for the Waigaoqiao Phase 5 joint venture project.
		An official of the municipal port authority said the Waigaoqiao Phase 5 project would be a great improvement to traffic, but the solution to transport bottlenecks caused by the lack of a decent deepwater port would be the Yangshan Port Project.
		Lu Haiwu said that though many hold that Shanghai and Shenzhen ports are in a kind of competition, the fact is that they are not, because the major clients for the two ports are very different and the two ports function differently.
	www.china.org.cn /english/BAT/108460.htm (414 words)

	Shanghai Port to issue additional shares (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Shanghai Port Container Co., the listed arm of the world's third-busiest container port, plans to raise 3.5 billion yuan (US$423 million) through a sale of as many as 350 million additional shares to fund two acquisition projects.
		Shanghai Port said the two projects were expected to boost its container throughput by 4.5 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) annually.
		Shanghai Port said in its annual report for 2004 that net profit rose 15.72 percent to 1.16 billion yuan, or 0.64 yuan per share.
	en.ce.cn /Markets/Equities/200503/22/t20050322_3388307.shtml (258 words)

	Chinese Laws and Regulations --- People's Daily Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Shanghai Customs and the Shanghai Harbor Superintendency Administration are responsible for the supervision and administration of international seaborne container transshipment at Shanghai port in accordance with the relevant provisions of the State and their respective duties.
		Port business operators shall submit a written application together with the relevant documents verified and issued by the competent administrative departments of communications, to the Shanghai Customs (and also to the Shanghai Harbor Superintendency Administration if they are to be engaged in the transshipment of dangerous goods).
		Article 12 Shanghai agents for entering vessels shall in accordance with the relevant regulations, declare their entry to the responsible supervision and administration departments after they have docked, and, together with shipping agents for leaving vessels, ensure dovetailed operation of international transshipment containers with regard to entry and departure.
	english.peopledaily.com.cn /data/laws/detail.php?id=340 (1145 words)

	Chapter 24- Shanghai (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The UN estimated the 1996 population of the Shanghai urban agglomeration to be 13.7 million, while the Shanghai Municipality had a population of 14.2 million in 1997..
		Shanghai continued to grow during the Ming dynasty (1368-1644), and near the beginning of the 15th century the county had an estimated 64,000 households.
		Shanghai grew rapidly during the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) when the development and use of cotton as a fabric material became widespread.
	www.ibiblio.org /chinesehistory/contents/chap24.html (1942 words)

	Shanghai Travel Guide \| Fodor's Online
		Shanghai, the most notorious of Chinese cities, once known as the Paris of the East, now calls itself the Pearl of the Orient.
		A port city, lying at the mouth of Asia's longest and most important river, Shanghai is famous as a place where internationalism has thrived.
		Shanghai is reputed to be home to one-fifth of all the world's construction cranes.
	www.fodors.com /miniguides/mgresults.cfm?destination=shanghai@145 (635 words)

	Shanghai’s Deepwater Logistics
		The new port is scheduled to be completed by 2020, have an annual water depth of 15 meters, with 30 berths and an annual capacity of 13 million TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units) - almost double Shanghai’s 2001 figure of 6 million TEUs.
		Shanghai Port last year handled 204 million tons of goods, making it the largest port in China and the world’s third largest after Rotterdam and Singapore.
		Daily handling capacity of import and export goods at the port in Shanghai has exceeded $300 million, and in 2001 the yearly total value of goods transported in and out was $120 billion, making up 2.4% of all of China’s imports and exports.
	www.friedlnet.com /news/02112303.html (693 words)

	Shanghai Transportation Guide
		Shanghai has an urban area of 3,924.24 square kilometers and rural area of 2,416.26 square kilometers.
		Railway: There are around 100 special railway lines in Shanghai and it will establish a international multimode container network with express through train as the mainstay, linking Hongkong and Macao to the south, Russia and Europe to the north, connecting overseas to the east and reaching Mid-Asia to the west.
		Port: Shanghai Port is the largest port in Mainland China, covering an area of 3,600 km*m.
	www.yourrooms.com /china_hotels/shanghai/transportation.htm (340 words)

	Shanghai timber import trends (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		For example, timber imports through Shanghai Port were 1.423 million cubic metres in 239 batches with an average batch of 5,954 cubic metres in 1993.
		In 2001 timber imports through Shanghai Port were 2.073 million cubic metres in 17,783 batches with a batch size of just 116 cubic metres.
		Plywood imports through Shanghai Port have fallen and now plywood exports exceed plywood imports a situation which is reflected nation wide.
	www.fordaq.com /fordaq/news/Shanghai_timber_import_968_regional.html (393 words)

	Port Technology - Yangshan Port Development, China
		The Yangshan port project in Shanghai, China, is one of the largest port project currently under consideration in the world.
		The Yangshan project was born after careful assessment of the suitability of the Shanghai port in relation to the forecast traffic growth and the growing use of new, bigger, third and fourth generation container ships.
		Since Shanghai is located at the mouth of the Yangtze River, most of the goods that travel from the Yangtze River region both for import and export go through Shanghai Port.
	www.port-technology.com /projects/yangshan (672 words)

	Shanghai Diary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The marine port airport infrastructure was also discussed at the seminar with Xu Pei Xing, director of the Shanghai Municipal Port Administration Bureau, giving a broad overview of current infrastructure and, of course, the ambitious plans they have for the future.
		A Port of Seattle Commissioner pointed out when she first visited Shanghai in 1988, Shanghai handled half the cargo Seattle did but today is six times the size of the Port of Seattle.
		Shanghai is the fourth largest port in the world but is expected to pass Busan next year then trailing only Hong Kong and Singapore.
	www.cityofseattle.net /tda/trade_info/past_missions/shanghai02.htm (1565 words)

	Fundación Metrópoli (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Port of Shanghai handled about 5 million TEUs in 2000 (expected to rise rapidly to 8.5 in 2005), and is China’s premier port.
		However, the major obstacle to the growth of the Port of Shanghai is the lack of a deep-water harbor capable of receiving the largest Post-Panamax and 100,000 ton vessels.
		However, the most ambitious port project that is being initiated is the Yangshan Deep-Water Harbor located on the Yangshan Islands in Hangzhou Bay on the southern coast of Shanghai.
	www.fundacion-metropoli.org /html/esp/proyectocities9j.htm (285 words)

	Shanghai (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Shanghai, a major port city on the west coast of the Pacific, is a municipality directly under the central government, covers 6341 square kilometers (145 square miles) and has 1,419 million inhabitants.
		Now Shanghai Port is the country's largest and ranks third in the world.
		Shanghai is also a historical and cultural city with a rich heritage: the beautiful Longhua Pagoda dating from 242 A.D., the exquisite Mao Pagoda built in Tang Dynasty and the Song Dynasty Huzhou Pagoda, which leans even more than the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
	ulink.ourfamily.com /city/cityguides/shanghai.htm (947 words)

	Asia Times Online :: China News, China Business News, Taiwan and Hong Kong News and Business.
		Shanghai, the prime engine of the Yangtze River Delta economic powerhouse in east China, is playing an increasingly important role in the global economy.
		Ningbo port's construction has been in full swing for the past several years, especially at the prodding of Xi Jinping, secretary-general of the Zhejiang provincial Communist Party committee - the No 1 in the state hierarchy, followed by the provincial governor.
		Driven and sustained by the Shanghai motor, the whole of the Yangtze River Delta has evolved into the most advanced and fastest-growing economic powerhouse in the country, said Dong Xianfeng from Peking University, who is conducting research on economic regionalization in China.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/China/GC19Ad03.html (1890 words)

	Shanghai Diary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Shanghai is outside of the main reported infected areas of the southern part of China and Hong Kong.
		Late in the afternoon, Shanghai Diary found himself strolling the new pedestrian walkway in central Shanghai, slowly weaving his way through the mass of humanity that is Shanghai with countless shops on either side of the walkway.
		Shanghai Diary watched her amble past a statue of shoppers on the pedestrian roadway (some cities have statues of generals, others of presidents and Shanghai has statues of shoppers), as younger, fashionably dressed women and men walked with the energy of modern Shanghai.
	www.cityofseattle.net /tda/trade_info/past_missions/shanghai04.htm (1382 words)

	:: Xinhuanet - English :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Overseas port investors including the Modern Terminals unit of Hong Kong's Wharf (Holdings) and Singapore's state-owned PSA Corp. are among big operators that have expressed interest in participating in the Yangshan port project.
		Gu Gang, director at Shanghai Tongsheng Investment (Group) Co., which is building the port for Shanghai, said COSCO Pacific Ltd. and the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co. have also expressed interest in the development.
		Shanghai and Shenzhen became the world's third and fourth-busiest container ports last year, behind Hong Kong and Singapore.
	news.xinhuanet.com /english/2004-03/01/content_1338971.htm (446 words)

	People's Daily Online -- Shanghai Port sees sharp rise in foreign trade in 2004
		The foreign trade handling capacity of Shanghai Port in 2004 reached 158 million tons, 22.1 percent higher than in 2003, said sources with the Shanghai Port Administration Tuesday.
		In 2004, export trade handled at Shanghai Port on the US route was as much as 11.8 million tons, 35.2 percent higher than that of2003.
		The Shanghai Port saw 33 international container sea routes newly open in 2004 including 21 ocean routes to Europe, North America, Middle East and Australia.
	english.people.com.cn /200501/12/eng20050112_170348.html (273 words)

	For European Jews, Shanghai was a Port of Last Resort
		Shanghai was the freest city in the world, offering no entry requirements at a time when other possible havens for refugees were shutting down.
		To be sure, there were hardships aplenty in Shanghai, where the influx of tens of thousands of impoverished refugees overwhelmed the abilities of the existing Jewish community, as well as the ruling Japanese, who eventually herded them into the Hongkew ghetto.
		One refugee recalls: "Shanghai was a fake, a phony, neither occidental nor oriental.
	www.gluckman.com /ShangJew99.html (1049 words)

	Look into the next five year - china.org.cn
		The new port will allow access to the sea for fifth-generation and sixth-generation container ships, which can carry between 5,000 and 6,000 20-foot containers, and will increase the city's capacity for maritime cargo transport, said Shanghai Vice-Mayor Han Zheng yesterday.
		"Shanghai's central geographical location and the huge market potential of Asia make the city well positioned to be an international aviation centre," said Han.
		Shanghai, the only Chinese city with two international airports, is expected to have the annual capacity to handle 100 million passengers and 5 million tons of cargo by 2010.
	www.china.org.cn /e-15/15-3-b/15-3-b-49.htm (348 words)

	KoreaTimes : Roh Expects Pusan Port to Overtake Shanghai (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		For the time being, Shanghai may be ahead of Pusan as a regional port but in the near future, Pusan will overtake Shanghai in the processing of logistics, he predicted.
		The port management firm is to serve as a locus for the nation to become a logistics hub in Northeast Asia.
		With the launch of the BPA, the port will be able to establish aggressive marketing and management, including flexibility in bond issuance, port fees and leasing, and facility enhancement, to attract international freights, as it becomes private and free from the stringent regulations of the central government.
	times.hankooki.com /lpage/200401/kt2004011617454110230.htm (432 words)

	Power of Place - 9 James Wang2
		The port will be able to berth container ships of third and fourth generation and become the new hub of international shipping in Shanghai.
		The reasons behind are (1) SICT is a 50-50 JV between Shanghai Port Authority and Hutchison Whampao, and Shanghai Port Authority has the vessel allocation right; (2) while WGQ is 100% owned by Shanghai Port Authority; (3) SICT should pay land premium, while WGQ does not.
		Most of Shanghai's tonnage was not loaded and unloaded on the Chang Jiang west of the mouth of the Huang Pu.
	www.learner.org /powerofplace/wang2.html (1030 words)

	New Port Projects Propel Shanghai (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The new port will allow access to the sea for fifth-generation and sixth-generation container ships, which can carry between 5,000 and 6,000 20-foot containers, and will increase the city's capacity for maritime cargo transport, said Shanghai Vice-Mayor Han Zheng on May 15.
		"Shanghai's central geographical location and the huge market potential of Asia make the city well positioned to be an international aviation center," said Han.
		On the cyber port program, Han said Shanghai will transform itself into one of the world's major information centers within the next 10 years.
	english.people.com.cn /english/200005/16/print20000516_40910.html (338 words)

	APM Terminals \| News \| Shanghai International Port Group and APM Terminals Form Joint Venture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Shanghai East Container Terminal Joint Venture Company on Wai Gao Qiao IV with four berths and fourteen cranes across 1,436 meters of quay, fronting a 1.55 million square meter terminal facility, is the newest and most advanced terminal in Shanghai, designed to handle more than three million TEU annually.
		Shanghai’s rapid emergence to become one of the world’s three leading container ports is unprecedented in the industry.
		Shanghai International Port Group operates multiple bulk, break-bulk and container terminals in the Port of Shanghai and is China’s leading terminal operating company.
	www.apmterminals.com /NR/exeres/7234C223-1BD2-43C0-8201-22C88A8BF515,frameless.htm?NRMODE=Published (471 words)

	Digital Chosunilbo (English Edition) : Daily News in English About Korea
		In a ceremony to mark the launch of the Busan Port Authority (BPA) in the nation¡¯s largest port city, President Roh Moo-hyun said Friday that he believes Busan will emerge as a competitive regional port, overtaking Shanghai, as long as the port can avoid labor strife.
		Shanghai has overtaken Busan in terms of total cargo handled, but Busan will overtake Shanghai in the processing of logistics, he said.
		The port management firm is to serve as the focal point for the nation¡¯s plan to become a logistics hub in Northeast Asia.
	english.chosun.com /w21data/html/news/200401/200401160018.html (278 words)

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