With efficiency raised and costs reduced, the Greater Bay Area logistics industry is taking a new leap forward
News: After seven years of construction, the national major project Shenzhen-Zhongshan Channel will be officially opened for trial operation at 15:00 on June 30. The Shenzhen-Zhongshan Channel integrates bridges, islands, tunnels and underwater connections, with a total length of about 24 kilometers. It crosses the Lingdingyang and connects the east and west banks of the Pearl River Estuary. After it is opened to traffic, the driving time from Shenzhen to Zhongshan will be shortened from the current 2 hours to 30 minutes.
The Shenzhen-Zhongshan Channel is about to open. What changes will this world-class cross-sea cluster project bring to the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area?
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The logistics transfer station in Shenzhen is one of the largest in the Pearl River Delta region, with an average of 550,000 shipments per day. At 1:00 p.m., a large number of shipments were being loaded onto trucks. In order to be transported to Zhongshan City on the other side of the Pearl River Estuary, they had to be dispatched on time at 14:05.
The traffic jams that the drivers mentioned when crossing the east and west banks of the Pearl River are: one at the Nansha Bridge section of the Guanglong Expressway, and the other at the intersection of the Nansha Bridge and the Guangzhou-Shenzhen Yanjiang Expressway. The opening of the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Channel will provide them with a closer option that avoids congestion.
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Drivers' income may increase, and for logistics companies, vehicles from Zhongshan to Shenzhen no longer need to detour through Dongguan, and transportation costs will decrease accordingly.
Benefiting from the opening of the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Channel, the export of goods in the Greater Bay Area will also be more convenient. This is the forward warehouse established by Shenzhen Airport in Xiaolan Town, Zhongshan. After it was officially opened in May last year, export goods from Zhongshan, Jiangmen and other places can be sent directly from here to Shenzhen Airport for export. The operation efficiency of goods will be greatly improved after the opening of the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Channel.
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Sun Lifang, deputy chief of the first supervision section of the Shenzhen Bao'an Airport Customs Logistics Park, introduced that from January to May this year, nearly 30% of the goods imported and exported by air in Guangdong Province chose the Shenzhen Airport port. With the opening of the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Channel, the import and export cargo in Zhongshan and western Guangdong regions such as Jiangmen and Zhuhai will be more effective in reducing transportation costs and speeding up logistics clearance.
In Shenzhen Fuyong Street, known as the "International Logistics Village", there are more than 4,000 cross-border logistics companies. After the opening of the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Channel, many companies have plans to build warehouses in Zhongshan. What attracts them most is the reduction in warehousing costs.
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Tang Linwang, director of the digital brand marketing department of Shenzhen Baiwei International Logistics Co., Ltd., said that currently in a warehousing center in Shenzhen, the price per square meter is basically 50 to 80 yuan, while in Zhongshan it may be 20 to 30 yuan.
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