Geng's company, operator of 250 kilometers of toll roads that link mainland dynamo Shanghai, Hangzhou and the booming portofNingbo, recently reported a 30% profit increase last year.
In June 2011, Novatek, Russia's biggest non-state gas company, sent 60, 000 tons of gas condensate from Murmansk to the Chinese portofNingbo aboard the MV Perseverance on a three-week voyage.