Beibu Gulf Port Group's Pinglu Canal Cargo Throughput Exceeds 1 Million Tons in First Month of Navigation

en.Wedoany.com Reported - At around 9:00 on October 17, as the vessel "Guigang Haitong 6688" sailed out of the Madao Hub of the Pinglu Canal in Guangxi, the cumulative cargo throughput completed by Beibu Gulf Port Group since the canal opened to navigation exceeded 1 million tons. The Pinglu Canal officially opened to navigation on September 16. As of 24:00 on October 16, Beibu Gulf Port Group had completed a cumulative cargo throughput of more than 970,000 tons in the first month of navigation.

To organize cargo sources for the canal, Beibu Gulf Port Group set up 6 research teams and conducted market development in southwestern regions including Guizhou, Yunnan, and Sichuan, visiting more than 200 customers in total. The Group coordinated Beibu Gulf Port Co., Ltd., Beigang Xijiang Port, and Beigang Logistics to connect cargo sources in Nanning, Baise, Chongzuo, Guigang, and other locations, and organized river-sea intermodal transport and transshipment operations.

Beibu Gulf Port Group has completed adaptive renovation of 13 berths on the sea side, adding approximately 32 million tons of river-sea intermodal handling capacity. The relevant berths now meet the conditions for regular berthing of vessels navigating the canal. On the river side, the Liujing Transfer Station renovation project in the Liujing Port Area of Nanning Port has been completed, and Berths No. 7–10 in the Nanmu Operation Area of Beihai Tieshan Port have been completed and put into operation. The hydraulic and warehouse works for Berths No. 4 and No. 5 at Dalanping in Qinzhou Port have passed completion acceptance and are scheduled to be put into operation within the year; Berth No. 5 in the Hesun Operation Area of Nanning has started construction and is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2027.

As of October 15, the port areas of Nanning Port under Beigang Xijiang Port had completed a cumulative canal-related cargo throughput of more than 940,000 tons, of which the single-month cargo throughput in September exceeded 668,000 tons, setting the highest single-month record since the port was established. The port areas have carried out operations including devanning and evacuation of ton-bag potash fertilizer, devanning of bauxite and iron ore for bulk vessel loading, and container loading of high-calcium stone, and have expanded container and water-to-water transshipment services.

As of October 16, Beigang Logistics had completed a cumulative cargo dispatch of more than 300,000 tons and opened the first Vietnam foreign trade container route of the Pinglu Canal. The company has laid out a 70-mu logistics yard in Baise, with a cargo storage capacity of 116,700 tons, and organizes direct, transshipment, bulk-to-container, and road-rail-water intermodal operations. Beibu Gulf Port Co., Ltd. carries out parallel operations of river vessel unloading and sea vessel loading at Qinzhou Terminal. During the National Day holiday, the single-day maximum throughput of river vessel cargo reached 67,800 tons.