Jiling Province started the first ocean shipping with a batch of 22,000 tonnes coal to Shanghai from Yinkou Port, which was a key step for the province to control more coal resources.

Jiling possesses so little coal that the demand was two times of the supply, for settle which, it aims to set up coalfields in Inner Mongolia, Yunnan and Guizhou, etc.

The province¡¯

s coal output will reach 30 million tonnes by 2010. By 2015, it will get a total of 80 million tonnes coal which includes 50 million tonnes outside the province.

So far, the province¡¯s freight shipped through Yinkou Port accounts for 15% of the port¡¯s total. From now on, the province aims at an annual shipping capacity of 1 million tonnes within two years and over 3 million tonnes within five years.