liaoning port group has five major port areas under its jurisdiction, namely dalian, yingkou, dandong, panjin, and suizhong, which can provide customers with port logistics and value-added services such as containers, petrochemicals, general cargo, ore, bulk grain, commodity vehicles, and passengers roll on/roll off. it has more than 170 container liner routes, covering more than 160 countries and regions worldwide, and more than 300 ports. it ranks first in china in domestic trade heavy container shipping and is an important container hub port in northeast asia. the scale of the oil and chemical storage tank group ranks among the top in china, with business scope radiating to the coastal areas of china and five continents around the world. it has qualifications for bonded storage and futures trade of crude oil and finished oil, and is an important oil and liquid chemical storage and distribution base in northeast asia. it has a batch of modern deep-water berths for bulk cargoes, including 400,000 tons of ore, 100,000 tons of grain, 100,000 tons of coal, and 70,000 tons of steel, innovatively carrying out full range logistics services for bonded international transit and mixed ore trading of iron ore. it can dock with the world's largest commercial automobile ro-ro ships and is the only ro-ro port along the coast of china with dedicated railway lines for port commodity vehicles, achieving full coverage of major automobile brand services. it has the largest maritime passenger station in china and operates inter provincial passenger routes across the bohai bay, including yantai, weihai, penglai, and dongying, which is a golden waterway for people and economic and trade exchanges between liaoning and shandong.