In 2013, Kiyoshi Kimura, the owner of a Japanese sushi restaurant chain, paid $1.76 million for the first bluefin at Tsukiji, which weighed 489 pounds. Kimura had paid $736,000âa world-record price at the timeâfor the first tuna of 2012. That fish weighed 593 pounds.
Shanghai International Port, China. The Shanghai harbor opened in 1842 as a treaty port. It faces the East China Sea to the east and Hangzhou Bay to the south. Back in the early 20th century, Shanghai became not only the largest city in the Far East, but the largest port too.
Along the Pearl River, from the down town to the estuary there are 7 terminal companies under Guangzhou Port Group engaged in container business. They are Xinfeng Branch Company, Henan Branch Company, Huangpu Branch Company (Huangpu Old Port), Guangzhou Container Terminal Co., Ltd (Huangpu New Port includes Xingang Terminal and Xinsha Terminal), Nansha Stevedoring Company (NCT). Guangzhou South China Oceangate Container Terminal (GOCT).