Looking towards the south! High quality development sets sail for Nansha Port in the Bay Area | Port | China
[Global Network reporter Shu Yiheng] the Pearl River Port, Lingding Bay. On the afternoon of June 13th, an offline visiting team consisting of journalists from central and local news websites, representatives from the Positive Energy Network, and others, visited the Nansha Port Area of Guangzhou Port to explore China amidst the vastness of the Guangdong Bay Area.
This is the geographical and geometric center of the the Pearl River estuary and the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area, and an important hub node connecting the the Pearl River port city group, Hong Kong and Macao regions, and even to the ocean. According to Fan Jianwen, Deputy Director of the Production Business Department of Guangzhou Port Co., Ltd., Nansha Port has sufficient shoreline resources for port construction, with about 6 kilometers of deep-water shoreline available for development as a port. By adding 15 kilometers of shoreline through excavation, more than 50 large deep-water berths can be constructed, which can meet the port construction needs of Guangzhou City in the next 30-50 years.
Photo by Shu Yihang, a journalist from Global Network of Nansha Port Area, Guangzhou Port
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The spring breeze of the times blows Nansha Port towards the fast lane of development. In 2015, the Nansha New Area of Guangdong Pilot Free Trade Zone was officially established; In February 2019, the Outline of the Development Plan for the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area identified Nansha as one of the major cooperation platforms for the development of Guangdong Hong Kong Macao cooperation; In 2022, the Overall Plan for Deepening Comprehensive Cooperation between Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao in Nansha, Guangzhou, has given Nansha a new positioning of building a major strategic platform based on the Bay Area, collaborating with Hong Kong and Macao, and facing the world.
Photo by Shu Yihang, a journalist from Global Network of Nansha Port Area, Guangzhou Port
Nansha Port has maritime trade relations with more than 400 ports in over 100 countries and regions around the world. It has established friendly cooperative relationships with 52 ports worldwide, opened up the "Central Asia Guangzhou Southeast Asia" sea rail intermodal freight channel, 9 cruise routes to Hong Kong, Japan, Vietnam, the Philippines, and other places, opened 11 sea rail intermodal trains radiating to the main regions of the Pearl River Delta, and all the top 21 container shipping companies in the world have entered the Nansha Port area. At present, Nansha Port has opened more than 100 routes in countries along the "the Belt and Road". "Since 2016, it has maintained a growth rate of at least 15%," said Cheng Cheng, General Manager of the Multimodal Transport Department of Guangzhou Port Logistics Co., Ltd.
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Photo by Shu Yihang, a journalist from Global Network of Nansha Port Area, Guangzhou Port
According to data statistics, in 2022, Nansha Port completed a container throughput of 18.3885 million TEUs and a commodity vehicle throughput of 1.063 million vehicles. As of the end of 2022, Nansha Port has opened a total of 182 air routes, connecting more than 310 ports in over 120 countries worldwide. In the first quarter of this year, more than 30 construction projects were launched in Nansha, with a total investment of over 80 billion yuan; 30 signed projects with a total investment of over 130 billion yuan. The Pearl of the Port Area is shining on the New Silk Road at sea.
The neatly stacked containers in the Nansha Port area continue to flow, weaving a shining logistics network in the bay area. It not only connects the high-quality development of the Greater Bay Area, but also continuously enhances Guangdong's high-level opening up radiation ability. Numerous high-quality engineering equipment and products manufactured in China are being exported to the world from here.
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