China’s Yantai Port sees surging general cargo shipments to Africa
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
A drone photo taken on Aug. 16, 2026 shows China-produced trucks bound for Ghana being loaded onto a ship at Yantai Port in east China’s Shandong Province. Yantai Port’s general cargo shipment volume to Africa has exceeded 6 million tonnes since the beginning of this year, a year-on-year increase of 66.1 percent. (Photo by Tang Ke/Xinhua)
A drone photo taken on Aug. 16, 2026 shows a vessel carrying China-produced vehicles bound for Ghana departing from Yantai Port in east China’s Shandong Province. Yantai Port’s general cargo shipment volume to Africa has exceeded 6 million tonnes since the beginning of this year, a year-on-year increase of 66.1 percent. (Photo by Zhang Chao/Xinhua)
A drone photo taken on Aug. 16, 2026 shows China-produced trucks bound for Ghana being loaded onto a vessel at Yantai Port in east China’s Shandong Province. Yantai Port’s general cargo shipment volume to Africa has exceeded 6 million tonnes since the beginning of this year, a year-on-year increase of 66.1 percent. (Photo by Zhang Chao/Xinhua)
A drone photo taken on Aug. 16, 2026 shows China-produced trucks bound for Ghana being loaded onto a vessel at Yantai Port in east China’s Shandong Province. Yantai Port’s general cargo shipment volume to Africa has exceeded 6 million tonnes since the beginning of this year, a year-on-year increase of 66.1 percent. (Photo by Tang Ke/Xinhua)
A drone photo taken on Aug. 16, 2026 shows China-produced buses bound for Ghana being loaded onto a ship at Yantai Port in east China’s Shandong Province. Yantai Port’s general cargo shipment volume to Africa has exceeded 6 million tonnes since the beginning of this year, a year-on-year increase of 66.1 percent.
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Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
