The group was formerly known as Jingzhou Port Authority. In 2002, government and enterprise were separated, and in 2003, it was renamed as its current name. In July, 2002 1 year, the group became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hubei Port Group Co., Ltd., with more than 10 investment enterprises under the group, namely, Jingzhou Port Cheyanghe Port Co., Ltd., Jingzhou Port Yanka Container Co., Ltd., Jingzhou Port Business Dispatching Center, Jingzhou Port Yijun Wharf Co., Ltd., Jingzhou Port Guanchu Port Machinery Engineering Co., Ltd., Jingzhou Port Xingshu Logistics Co., Ltd. and Jingzhou Port Ruichu. It has formed booming and growing business sectors such as trade logistics, loading and unloading warehousing, multimodal transport, port service, tally sorting, port machinery repair, tourism reception, and port facility leasing.
In the section from Songzi Cheyanghe to Jiangling Lijiatai on the trunk line of the Baili Yangtze River, the Group has successively implemented key port construction projects such as Yanka Phase II, Phase III comprehensive terminal, Cheyanghe comprehensive terminal, tourist terminal and Jiangling petrochemical terminal, and is currently promoting the implementation of Cheyanghe port special railway, multimodal transport supply chain information platform and smart port. The port layout with east-west connection, north-south echo, perfect functions, outstanding features and complementary advantages has basically taken shape, and the enterprise has a solid foundation for development and sufficient stamina. Among the managed ports, Yanka Port is located in the national Jingzhou Economic and Technological Development Zone, which is the main body of Jingzhou's 100-million-ton combined port, the core port area of Jingzhou's "One Port and Ten Districts", the first-class modern large-scale comprehensive port area in the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River, an important logistics base in the two lakes and plains and an important window for Jingzhou's opening to the outside world. Cheyanghe Port Area is located in the lower reaches of Cheyanghe River in Songzi, which is an important part of Songzi Lingang Industrial Park and a demonstration port area of "revitalizing the park with port" and port transformation and upgrading in Hubei Province. Lipu Port Area is located near Ji Zi in Shashi reach, which is an important fulcrum to promote the exchange and coordinated development of materials in the Yangtze River and Hanjiang River basins. Located at the southern end of Salonda Square in the downtown area of Jingzhou, the tourist port area is the origin port and land-water transit port of Yangtze River tourism, and it is a water platform to show Jingzhou's "ancient city culture" and the charm of riverside city.
In the new historical period, major strategic opportunities such as the Belt and Road Initiative, the Yangtze River Economic Belt and Hanjiang Ecological Economic Belt, the urban agglomeration in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, and the construction of Dongting Lake Ecological Economic Zone are superimposed on Jingzhou Port and its economic hinterland. According to the development strategic arrangement of Provincial Port Group, the Group is seizing the opportunity, striving for progress steadily, implementing the five development concepts, integrating high-quality factor resources, promoting port transformation and upgrading, enhancing port service capacity, expanding port service functions, optimizing port service quality, deepening port foreign cooperation, deeply integrating into the overall situation of coordinated development of river basins and regions, and striving to achieve double promotion of operation scale and quality and efficiency, and strive to become a first-class port management enterprise in China.