The continuous opening and endless life of the port has accompanied the prosperity and prosperity of Guangzhou through thousands of years. After a thousand years, Guangzhou, which rose from the port and prospered to the sea, focused on the future, took the construction of a port-type national logistics hub as the fulcrum, deepened regional port and shipping logistics cooperation, smoothed the domestic and international double circulation, and ensured the stable operation of the regional industrial supply chain, once again activating a pool of spring water for guangdong's vigorous economic and trade development.
As the largest comprehensive main hub port in South China, the largest port of China's domestic trade containers, the international container trunk port, and the core hub port of African routes, guangzhou port's cargo throughput and container throughput rank among the top ten ports in the world. In 2021, Guangzhou Port Group completed a cargo throughput of 551 million tons and a container throughput of 23.03 million TEUs, an increase of 3.6% and 6.0% year-on-year, which strongly supported the stable ranking of cargo throughput and shipping development index of Guangzhou Port, and the continuous improvement of international popularity and influence.
Last year, the Port of Guangdong Province, led by Guangzhou Port, made frequent major moves, and in June, foshan Gaohe Port Terminal Project began, and Guangzhou Port Holding Huadu Port; in July, Guangzhou Port Holding Jieyang Rongjiang Port; in September, Guangzhou Port and Yangjiang Municipal Government signed a port cooperation framework agreement to form Yangjiang Port Public Wharf Operation Platform; in September, Guangzhou Port joined hands with Maoming City to build the second phase of the Guanggang General Wharf Project in Bohe New Port Area; in October, Jieyang-Guangzhou "Sea Shuttle Bus" branch line was completed; in November, Guangzhou Yunfu International Logistics Port hydraulics completed, the first car ro-ro ship tailored for Huadu Port was delivered and launched in December, and the era of inland car ro-ro transportation in the Pearl River Delta set sail... In the steady pace of implementing the national strategy of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and the construction of "one nuclear, one belt and one region" in Guangdong Province, the port has become a bridgehead to promote urban development and openness.
With the unfolding of the great picture of regional cooperation, Guangzhou Port plays a strategic, basic and leading role of the port in the construction of economic and industrial development and hub city, connects the rivers and seas, weaves chains into a network, and works with Guangdong Port to promote the construction of a modern comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network with strong industrial support and economical efficiency, helping Guangzhou to build a domestic large circulation center node city and a domestic and international dual circulation strategic link city, forming a large logistics pattern in South China. Further enhance Guangzhou's role as the core engine of regional development in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and the province.
From the perspective of investment layout, the energy level of the hub supports the economic ability of the hub to be stronger
The hub energy level of a city often values the agglomeration of elements such as people flow, logistics, information flow, capital flow, etc. The port is the core node of the international industrial chain and logistics chain, and is the core resource and important engine for building an international shipping hub and developing the hub economy, and the development quality of the port directly affects the service level of the social economy.
In September 2019, the "Guangzhou Port-type National Logistics Hub" project with Guangzhou Port Group as the main body was selected as the first batch of national logistics hub construction list, the only construction project selected in Guangdong Province, under the requirements of implementing the national strategy of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and guangdong Province's construction of a regional development pattern of "one nuclear, one belt and one region", promoting the docking of regional port business and sharing of resources, and jointly building a world-class port cluster with reasonable layout, complementary advantages and efficient coordination. In turn, the Greater Bay Area and South China have the ability to allocate global resource elements, and Guangzhou Port plays a leading role.
Last year, Guangzhou Yunfu International Logistics Port, jointly built by Guangzhou Port and Yunfu City, has successively carried out finished steel, pulp and other businesses in the first phase of the general terminal, further optimizing the logistics path of surrounding resources, reducing logistics costs, boosting the gathering of Yunfu industries, and providing more efficient and convenient logistics channels for local economic development. At present, guangzhou Yunfu International Logistics Port, which has an annual container throughput capacity of 300,000 TEUs, has been completed. Guangzhou Port is actively promoting the interconnection between the Xijiang and Beijiang golden waterways and the Nansha Port Area, using the important logistics node attributes of the port to form a synergistic linkage effect with the inland river, and driving the linkage development of the industrial economy in all parts of the province.
In recent years, Guangzhou Port Group has accelerated the coordinated development of regional port linkage, and by the end of 2021, the construction and operation projects have covered 9 cities in Guangdong, including Dongguan, Foshan, Zhongshan, Chaozhou, Maoming, Yunfu, Jieyang, Shaoguan and Yangjiang, achieving full coverage of the Pearl River Delta and the eastern, western and northern regions of Guangdong. It is accelerating the integration of state-owned port resources in Guangzhou and districts, and accelerating the formation of a new pattern of coordinated development of regional ports with Nansha Port District as the core, ports in the coastal economic belt of western Guangdong and eastern Guangdong as the two wings, and ports of the Pearl River as the link.
Based on driving the economic development of the service region, Guangzhou Port is making great strides in accelerating the construction of port infrastructure and upgrading the energy level of port hubs. Since the opening of the first phase of the Nansha Port Area in 2004, the Nansha Port Area of Guangzhou Port has built 16 container deep-water berths, with an annual passing capacity of more than 20 million TEUs, built 5 car ro-ro berths, and the overall vehicle passing capacity has exceeded 1.8 million vehicles. The main body of the Nansha grain and general wharf expansion project has been basically completed, the silo expansion project has been put into use, and the grain passing capacity of Guangzhou Port has reached 36 million tons, ranking first in the country. The Nansha Port Railway was completed and opened to traffic on December 31, 2021, opening up the last kilometer of sea-rail intermodal transport and promoting the Nansha Port Area to become a world-class "sea-rail intermodal transport" logistics hub. Nansha International Logistics Center North District Project opened for trial operation, the South District Project as the country's largest single cold storage has entered the refrigeration and temperature regulation stage, after the commissioning of the overall warehouse capacity of more than 700,000 tons. The construction of nansha international general terminal and nansha port area phase V has been accelerated.
In 2021, the cargo throughput of Nansha Port Area reached 321 million tons, and the container throughput was 17.617 million TEUs, of which the throughput of foreign trade cargo and foreign trade container throughput increased by 13.1% and 16.3% respectively year-on-year, and the throughput capacity of a single port area was at the forefront of the world.
90% of the world's freight transported by water, Guangdong Port and Shipping Development Report shows that last year the Pearl River Delta waterway freight volume was 852.64 million tons, Guangzhou city accounted for nearly half with 422.25 million tons, and Guangzhou port accounted for half of it, this volume and proportion will gradually increase in the win-win cooperation of Guangdong port groups.
From the perspective of network layout, the development pattern is wider, and the linkage radiation capacity at home and abroad is wider
In March last year, the "Huanglong" ship, which was loaded with 67,300 tons of foreign trade coal, successfully docked at the Maoming Guanggang Wharf, marking the opening of foreign trade business at the deep-water general wharf in Maoming City. Since the opening of the port in 2019, the Maoming Guanggang Terminal invested and constructed by Guangzhou Port Co., Ltd. has increased by 70% in terms of cargo throughput, and in 2021, the main commodities such as coal and grain have completed 3.2089 million tons, with grain increasing by 7.62% year-on-year, mining construction materials by 96.97% year-on-year, coal by 211.30% year-on-year, and machinery and equipment by 395.73% year-on-year, which strongly supports the development of Maoming power generation, grain and oil processing and lingang industrial industry.
In recent years, with the support of the governments at the guangdong and municipal levels and relevant departments, Guangzhou Port Group has sought to build a modern transportation network with unimpeded citywide, connecting the whole province, connecting the whole country and integrating the world with high standards, accelerating the integration and improvement of the integrated logistics network of Guangdong ports, deepening the "internal introduction and external connection", stringing beads into chains, interconnection, accelerating the formation of a pattern of opening up to the outside world with land and sea linkage, east-west two-way mutual benefit, supporting and improving the local industrial and industrial chain system with the construction of "hub port", and using a strong "magnetic field effect" Attract cargo flow, gather popularity and add momentum to the regional economy.
From the perspective of the sea, relying on the outstanding advantages of the "Belt and Road" and the strategic intersection of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and connecting the domestic and international markets, Guangzhou Port has accelerated the expansion of overseas marketing, opened up new international routes, smoothed overseas transportation channels, set up overseas offices, and promoted port logistics into a chain network. In 2021, there will be a net increase of 21 foreign trade routes, a total of 141, leading to more than 400 ports in more than 100 countries and regions around the world, and the volume of foreign trade operations in foreign trade coal, grain, automobiles, containers and other goods has achieved double-digit growth, with an increase of 51.2%, 50.0%, 20.2% and 11.1% respectively, playing a hard-core hub role in orderly promoting the resumption of work and production and maintaining the stability of the global industrial chain supply chain.
From the land perspective, with the Nansha Port Area as the center, Guangzhou Port Group has opened nearly 200 barge branch lines, of which 72 barge routes of Guangzhou Port Group "shuttle bus" cover the main inland river terminals in the Pearl River Delta. Opened the "Xiang guangdong-Non" international sea-rail intermodal transport channel, the Central Europe (Central Asia) train, Guangzhou-Jieyang maritime branch line and other multimodal transport channels, the existing radiation of the pan-Pearl River Delta major areas of the sea-rail intermodal train 29, the opening of 12 China-Europe (Central Asia) international trains, the establishment of 30 inland dry ports, the initial formation of Guangzhou port as the core hub, with the branch port, dry port and multimodal transport channel as the support, covering the bay area, radiation inland, connected to the world integrated logistics network system. In 2021, Guangzhou Port Group completed the sea-rail intermodal shipment to the shipment volume of 156,000 TEUs, an increase of 41.8% year-on-year, and completed the railway evacuation volume of more than 10 million tons.
With the seaward international shipping network and the land-to-inland radiation network becoming more and more dense, the comprehensive logistics channel covering containers, grain, commodity vehicles and other types of goods is extending from Guangzhou Port to the Greater Bay Area, inland and to the world, and Guangzhou Port's ability to serve the new development pattern of domestic and international double circulation is getting stronger and stronger.
Resilience and vitality from the perspective of business environment Information-driven service capabilities are better
In July last year, the "2021 Xinhua Baltic International Shipping Center Development Index Report" was released in Shanghai, and Guangzhou Port ranked 13th in the International Shipping Center Index, known as the "Star of Progress". The Global Container Port Performance Index (CPPI) released by the World Bank and Erasure Huamailine ranked sixth; the Global Cargo Port Performance Index report ranked the top ten most efficient ports, and Guangzhou Port ranked fourth.
Why does Guangzhou Port frequently lead the global shipping index, and the international business environment gives the answer? Export goods "one declaration, one inspection, one release", import export transit goods procedures are completed at one time, "Bay Area One Port Connect", WGO and combination port operation mode, to achieve seamless connection between Nansha Port Area and Yunfu, Zhaoqing and other 10 inland river terminal ports. Guangzhou port fully implements the "5 + 2" day customs clearance, and implements the tax refund policy of the port of departure for water transport goods in the Nansha bonded port area, with convenient customs clearance environment and perfect logistics facilities. Efficient service efficiency and excellent business environment have brought goods from the Pearl River Delta and even the whole of South China to Nansha Port for import and export.
Focusing on "letting information run more and customers running less errands", Guangzhou Port conforms to the trend of digital transformation, integrates information resources such as shipping companies, ports and customers, comprehensively deepens the construction of "one center and six platforms" of smart ports, improves the ability and level of informatization, intelligence, intelligence and digital service, and aims to build a world-class port with the goal of building a "convenient and reliable customer experience, open and collaborative port ecology, efficient and safe intelligent terminals, transparent and visual intelligent management". By continuously improving the service efficiency of public platforms such as port inspection platforms, trailer platforms, barge platforms and paperless orders, Guangzhou Port has fully realized the "paperless" container export.
In the future, Guangzhou Port will find the right point of strength, seize the opportunity to make good use of the "Belt and Road", "Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area" and "transportation powerhouse" construction and development opportunities, give full play to location advantages, leverage industrial advantages, strive to promote the coordinated development of regional port and shipping logistics at a higher level, in a wider range of fields and with deeper connotations, continue to build a modern circulation system of "channel + hub + network", do a good job in the big article of "logistics", and strive to show greater achievements in the new development pattern of "double circulation".