Qinhuangdao Port : Announcements and Notices - Throughput Volume of the Group for the Year Ended 31 December 2016

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(a joint stock limited liability company incorporated in the People's Republic of China)

(Stock Code: 3369) THROUGHPUT VOLUME OF THE GROUP FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2016

This announcement is made by Qinhuangdao Port Co., Ltd.*(秦皇島港股份有限公司) (the "Company", together with its subsidiaries, the "Group") pursuant to rule 13.09 of the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited and the inside information provisions in Part XIVA of the Securities and Futures Ordinance (Cap. 571 of the Laws of Hong Kong).

In order to enable the shareholders and the potential investors of the Company to have a better understanding on the Company's latest business performance, the board (the "Board") of directors of the Company hereby announces the operational data of the Group (including Caofeidian Shiye, as defined below) for the year ended 31 December 2016 as follow:

Throughput for the year ended 31 December 2016	Throughput for the year ended 31 December 2015	Increase / (Decrease)
(million tonnes)	(million tonnes)	(%)
Dry bulk1	289.78	341.42	(15.13%)
- Coal4	177.04	230.41	(23.16%)
- Metal ore	112.74	111.01	1.56%
Oil and liquefied chemicals	3.31	7.01	(52.78%)
Container2	13.25	12.53	5.75%
General and other cargoes3,4	6.42	9.20	(30.22%)
Total5	312.76	370.16	(15.51%)

Throughput by Cargo Type

* For identification purpose only

Notes:

1. The dry bulk cargoes the Group handled mainly consist of coal and metal ores.

2. Measured in terms of twenty-foot equivalent unit ("TEU"), our Group's container throughput for the year ended 31 December 2016 was 1,116,647TEUs, representing an increase of 11.37% as compared with the container throughput for the year ended 31 December 2015 (1,002,676TEUs).

3. Other cargoes include grain, fertilizer, etc.

4. In the announcement of throughput of the Group for the year ended 30 June 2016, part of the coal was loaded into the general and other cargoes category due to stevedoring through non-specialised coal terminals. In order to ensure the true and accurate classification of the data by cargo type, the Group takes into account all the coal in the dry bulk cargoes category.

5. Throughput includes that of Tangshan Caofeidian Shiye Port Co., Ltd.* (唐山曹妃甸實業港務有限公司)

("Caofeidian Shiye"), which is a non-consolidated associate company of, and 35% owned by the Company. The Company is the largest shareholder of Caofeidian Shiye. For the year ended 31 December 2016, the throughput of Caofeidian Shiye was 73.11 million tonnes, consisting of 2.78 million tonnes of coal, 70.10 million tonnes of metal ores and 0.23 million tonnes of general cargoes.

Throughput by Port

Throughput for the year ended 31 December 2016	Throughput for the year ended 31 December 2015	Increase (Decrease)
(million tonnes)	(million tonnes)	(%)
Qinhuangdao Port1	179.66	246.55	（27.13%）
Caofeidian Port2	73.11	80.42	（9.09%）
Huanghua Port3	59.99	43.19	38.90%
Total	312.76	370.16	(15.51%)

Notes:

1. Includes container throughput. Measured in terms of TEU, our Group's throughput of containers in Qinhuangdao Port for the year ended 31 December 2016 was 515,482TEUs, representing an increase of 2.92% as compared with the container throughput for the year ended 31 December 2015 (500,879TEUs).

2. Representing the throughput of Caofeidian Shiye.

3. Includes container throughput. Measured in terms of TEU, our Group's throughput of containers in Huanghua Port for the year ended 31 December 2016 was 601,165TEUs, representing an increase of 19.80% as compared with for the year ended 31 December 2015 (501,797TEUs).

Shareholders and potential investors of the Company are reminded to exercise caution when dealing in the shares of the Company.

On behalf of the Board Qinhuangdao Port Co., Ltd.* CAO Ziyu

Chairman

Qinhuangdao, Hebei Province, the PRC 10 January 2017

As at the date of this announcement, the executive directors of the Company are CAO Ziyu, TIAN Yunshan, WANG Lubiao and MA Xiping; the non-executive directors of the Company are LI Jianping and MI Xianwei; and the independent non-executive directors of the Company are LI Man Choi, ZHAO Zhen, ZANG Xiuqing and HOU Shujun.

* For identification purpose only