Dandong Port, Liaoning province, saw cargo throughput reach 96.06 million metric tons last year, up 25.8 percent year-on-year, the Liaoning Daily reported on Thursday.

Container throughput at the port reached 1.25 million twenty-foot equivalent units, or TEUs, up 76.5 percent year-on-year, the report said.

The port — China’s northernmost international trade harbor — is one of the most convenient logistics channels in Northeast China and is connected to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Russia and?Japan.