The province's main port is Qinghuangdao, which handles about 200M tonnes of coal each year at the moment and expects that to double by 2015. By contrast, Rotterdam, which is the largest European coal port, has an annual throughput of 27M tonnes.rnThe aim is for Hebei to have the first 'green' port in northern China and the Chinese delegation was on a fact-finding visit to study the way in which the environment and the economy are combined in Rotterdam.
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