Recently, the World Bank and S&P Global jointly released the “Container Port Performance Index (CPPI) 2025”. The report shows that among the top five ports in the 2025 ranking, Chinese ports strongly occupy four seats, with Dalian Port’s ranking jumping to second globally, highlighting the increasing resilience of the port.
The “Container Port Performance Index (CPPI)” (hereinafter referred to as “CPPI”) is jointly released by the World Bank and S&P Global Market Intelligence, focusing on key operational indicators such as vessel turnaround time and container throughput. Amid increasingly complex international circumstances, this report not only serves as a widely referenced benchmark for measuring global container port performance but also as an effective tool for observing and assessing supply chain pressures, providing valuable reference for comprehensively measuring the role of ports in the global trade network.
This edition of CPPI covers over 400 ports globally, based on data from more than 180,000 vessel calls, and uses the core evaluation indicator of vessel turnaround time to quantitatively rank global ports. Dalian Port’s ranking has steadily improved, moving from 42nd, to 14th, to 4th, and now to 2nd.
In recent years, Dalian Container Terminal Company has focused on deepening the construction of smart and green ports, adhering to the service tenet of “what customers need, Liaoning Port provides.” It has continuously unleashed the effectiveness of its two distinctive service brands, “Fast and Smooth” and “High Precision.” For two consecutive years, it has ranked second among major shipping lines such as COSCO and Maersk in terms of port calls. With its outstanding performance, it won the “Global Terminal Efficiency Award” at the 2025 Ocean Alliance Global Port and Shipping Cooperation Conference and retained the “User-Satisfied Container Terminal” title under the Golden Wheel Award for six consecutive years, with continuously enhanced service efficiency and support capabilities.
As the foreign trade container hub port of Liaoning Port Group, Dalian Container Terminal Company has been continuously improving its route network layout and enhancing comprehensive service capabilities since the beginning of this year. It has cumulatively opened one new Middle East mainline, three Southeast Asian near-sea routes, and one domestic Shanghai route, filling the service gap for direct routes from Dalian Port to the Middle East. At the same time, it has maintained ongoing communication with relevant port authorities, continuously strengthened coordination and linkage between ports and shipping lines, and fully leveraged the technological advantages of the smart port to strengthen control over key operational points, ensuring vessels can “quickly berth, quickly load, and quickly depart,” thereby minimizing vessel turnaround time. In the first five months of this year, the company’s container throughput increased by approximately 4% year-on-year, with steady improvements in development quality and operational efficiency.
This year marks the beginning of the “15th Five-Year Plan.” As the northern home port of China Merchants Group, Liaoning Port Group will anchor onto the strategic goal of becoming a “first-class strong port enterprise in Northeast Asia,” seize new development opportunities, continuously deepen port coordination and openness, and steadily enhance the digital, intelligent, and green levels of the port, making new and greater contributions to serving high-quality regional economic development and facilitating the smooth flow of both domestic and international economic cycles.
