 Built to allow the Port of Shanghai to grow despite shallow waters near the shore, it allows berths with depths of up to to be built, and can handle today's largest container ships.The port is built on the islands of Greater and Lesser Yangshan, part of the Zhoushan archipelago, with fill from land reclamation.In 2015, the port handled 36.54 million Twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) up 3.5% over 2014.