From January to June this year, Huai'an City completed a port cargo throughput of 41.1062 million tons, marking a year-on-year increase of 6.5%, and a container throughput of 298,500 TEUs, delivering a year-on-year increase of 11.43%, of which the container multimodal transport volume was 78,900 TEUs, marking a year-on-year increase of 73.3%.

Huai'an is strengthening infrastructure development by accelerating the promotion of six port projects, namely Huai'an Port Phase III, Industrial Park Hazardous Chemicals Terminal, Huangma Operation Area, Jinhu Port Logistics Park, Hongze New Port Industrial Park Terminal, and Xuyi Port Industrial Park Terminal. The cumulative investment completed from January to June was RMB 710 million, accounting for 61.65% of the annual plan.

Huai'an is deepening regional coordination and cooperation. On February 24, the "Taierzhuang-Huai'an-Quzhou Container" route was officially launched in Huai'an, opening up a new channel connecting Huai'an to southern Shandong and western Zhejiang. On March 5, a breakthrough was made in the integrated operation of Huai'an Port-Huaiyin East Port, and the first batch of goods from Zenith Steel were successfully shipped to Shanghai for export via Huaiyin East Port. On May 23, Huai'an COSCO Shipping Logistics and Korea Marine Transport Co., Ltd. (KMTC) opened the first connected carrier agreement (CCA) business from Huai'an to Ulsan Port in South Korea. The first batch of dense soda ash was successfully exported through river-sea multimodal transport. It took only 3 days for it to be transported from empty containers to factories for loading and shipped through Huai'an Port for customs clearance.

The city is optimizing government services. The policy of supporting the development of water transport containers has been fully implemented, which has benefited 10 key enterprises such as Jiangsu Jianghuaitong Container Shipping Co., Ltd. and Huai'an Runxing Container Transport Co., Ltd. At the same time, the construction of "smart ports" has been accelerated. The total investment in Huai'an Port Phase III and Huangma Port Smart Port has reached RMB 13.14 million, accounting for 55.17% and 55.52% of the annual plan respectively.