Qingdao Port, the second-largest foreign trade port in China, saw its foreign trade cargo throughput rise 21 percent year-on-year to 128.87 million tonnes in the first half of this year, China Knowledge Press reported.

           The port's total throughput, comprising domestic and foreign trade, climbed 8.7 percent year on year to 170.48 million tonnes. The port's container throughput was 5.66 million TEU's in the first six months of this year, up 11.5 percent from the corresponding period of 2009.