Night view of Qinzhou Port. [Photo/WeChat account: gh_df8bc987e060]

In recent years, Qinzhou Port has continued to widen its opening-up with high-quality development. 

Lloyd's List, the world-renowned shipping news journal, announced the ranking of the world's top 100 largest container ports of 2020 on Aug 23 and Qinzhou Port ranked 47th, making it one of the world's top 50 for the first time. 

In 2007, Qinzhou, Beihai and Fangcheng ports were merged into the Beibu Gulf Port and container shipping routes have been handled at Qinzhou Port since. It has now opened 48 container shipping routes to over 200 major ports in more than 100 countries and regions including Southeast Asia and Northeast Asia.

As of now, Qinzhou Port has built 81 public and industrial berths, including one 300,000-metric-ton oil terminal and eight 100,000-ton berths. In 2020, Beibu Gulf completed a total container throughput of five million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU). Among them, Qinzhou Port completed 3.95 million TEUs, accounting for about 80 percent.

Qinzhou Port has adopted a number of preferential policies for sea-rail combined transportation, such as the exemption of cargo extraction fees, reduction of short freight, and the extension of cargo storage periods.