A port worker (left) guides a container truck driver at Beilun Port, part of Ningbo-Zhoushan Port in Zhejiang province. [Photo by ZHONG NAN/CHINA DAILY]
Earlier this month, as a bulk carrier that set sail from Chile in South America docked at a terminal of the Zhangjiagang Port in eastern China's Jiangsu province, Qian Jiang directed scores of workers unloading the cargo to ensure all 10,000 metric tons of the copper concentrate could be scraped clean to the last milligram.
Qian, an executive from the quality control center of Tongling Nonferrous Metals Group Co Ltd in Anhui province, was under instructions to treat the imported copper concentrate as gold-precious because of the recent surge in commodity prices.