The vessel GOLAR CELSIUS docks at Yangkou Port on Jan 2. [Photo/WeChat account: gh_de0a28ca73ce]

Yangkou Port – located in Rudong district of Nantong city, East China's Jiangsu province – welcomed its first LNG tanker of 2022 on Jan 2.

The liquefied natural gas brought by the vessel GOLAR CELSIUS – after gasifying through the LNG storage tanks at Yangkou Port – was directly exported to areas as far as the southwest of Shandong province, the east of Hubei province and the north of Zhejiang province, meeting the gas demand of residents, gas power plants, and urban and industrial gas supply.

Yangkou Port received and unloaded 87 LNG tankers last year. The total annual unloading volume of LNG exceeded 10 billion cubic meters for the first time since its first LNG tanker on May 24, 2011.

For the past 10 years, the port has been a great help at easing the tension of clean energy in the Yangtze River Delta region. It also plays an important role in ensuring the safe supply of natural gas in East China and parts of the North.

Yangkou Port is striving to become an energy island with the capacity of LNG receiving and unloading, storage, gasification, bond, and transshipment. It will build a national LNG receiving and unloading base, a supply base, a reserve base, and a trading center.