Nansha and Shunde join hands in shipping service

Guangzhou's Nansha district port customs clearance and logistics policy description meeting was held on July 9. Nansha has carried out in-depth cooperation in river and sea transport, intelligent port cooperation and logistics interconnection with Shunde, a district of Foshan, another city in Guangdong province, since 2018.

A Nansha port customs clearance and logistics policy description meeting is held on July 9.[Photo/gznsnews.com.cn]

There are 16 shuttle buses in the Nansha port area running to the Foshan branch line. The WGO (Water Gate Operation) business of Leliu Port to Nansha has been opened, and Foshan is participating in the construction of the Nansha Port Phase IV terminal. The export volumes of Midea, Galanz, Hisense Kelon, Haier and many other enterprises also increased in the last year.

As the only deep-water container terminal on the west bank of the Pearl River, Nansha Port Area’s business covers a total of 14 large and medium-sized cities including Guangzhou, Foshan, Dongguan and Zhongshan.

According to the comparison of trailer costs in South China, the distance between enterprises on the west bank of the Pearl River and Nansha Port by barge and land transportation is more than one-third less than that between Hong Kong and Guangdong’s Shenzhen city.

Take Midea, a leading home appliances maker in China,as an example. Before the opening of the Nansha Port Area, it exported goods through Shenzhen or Foshan to Hong Kong. After its opening, containers were gradually transferred to the area.

Exports from Nansha increased by 56 percent year-on-year from 2017 to 2018. And they are expected to increase by more than 30 percent in 2019.

“In recent years, the district has also promoted the optimization and upgrading of the functions of Nansha Port to better serve production enterprises in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, especially the West Bank of the Pearl River,” said Pan Yuzhang, deputy director of the Administrative Committee of the Nansha Development Zone.

“The Nansha and Shunde district governments will also strengthen cooperation and introduce the innovation experience of the Pilot Free Trade Zone and the service function of Nansha Port to Shunde,“ he added.

Nansha port area[Photo/gznsnews.com.cn]

Nansha will build a world-class hub port and strive to build a comprehensive transportation hub in the Pearl River Delta region. The port, rail transit and a high-speed road network will be constructed. A large-scale transportation network connecting the central city of Guangzhou and the urban and rural areas on both sides of the Pearl River Delta has been formed.

Nansha Port Area has become the largest single port area in South China. It has opened 102 international liner routes and 32 domestic trade routes, bringing together the top 20 container liner companies in the world.

The Nansha Shugang Railway has been under construction and is scheduled to be completed and put into use in 2020.

There are five major international airports around the world that are establishing a fast track with Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport. The Guangdong-Hong Kong cross-border warehouse project achieves direct road connection with Hong Kong Airport and a clipper seaway service between the Hong Kong Airport and Nansha is planned.

Nansha Port focuses on improving the level of trade facilitation. It has established a traceability system for collecting the full cycle information of commodities, and built a big data supervision model for import and export commodities that provides fast customs clearance for quality goods.

It has also created a global customs clearance system and established an artificial intelligence international trade information service platform to realize automatic translation and transmission of cross-border trade data.

The import and export times of Nansha are better than the national level. Thanks to the optimization of hardware and software, development of new forms of international trade has continued to make breakthroughs.

In 2018, the import of cross-border e-commerce BBC was 9.87 billion yuan ($1.44 billion), and parallel imports of complete vehicles reached 13,700 units.