The New Eurasia Continental Landbridge, open to traffic in 1992, runs unblocked from Lianyungang in the east to Rotterdam in the Netherlands in the west across 11 provinces and autonomous regions in east, middle and west China with a vast economic hinterland of about 3.5 million km² inhabited by 300 million people. Over 100,000 standard containers have been transported from Lianyungang to middle Asia, and from middle Asia to the Republic of Korea, Japan and the USA through the New Eurasia Continental Landbridge. Reputed as the Modern Silk Road, the  New Eurasia Continental Landbridge links the Atlantic economic circle, the most developed economic circle, with the Asia-Pacific economic circle, the fastest growing economic circle in the world.

Being one of the eight largest coastal ports in China and the most convenient ocean-shipping port for Central and Northwest China, the port of Lianyungang boasts over thirty 10,000-tonnage berths with an annual handling capacity of 30 million tons. Lianyungang is open to navigation and trade with over 1,000 ports in more than 150 countries and regions in the world. With the completion of the 6,700-meter long dam in 1993, the port of Lianyungang, now covering an area of 30 km², can hold over 100 berths.