Vietnam, Cambodia bureaus open as ZH Port expands

Zhuhai Port Holdings Group has set up overseas offices in Cambodia capital Phnom Penh and Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam for smoother business connections with vital nodes in the Belt & Road Initiative.

The group is the largest State-owned port construction company on the west bank of the Pearl River Delta. It is greatly expanding cargo connections between the world and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

Sandwiched between Thailand and Vietnam on the Indo-China Peninsula, Cambodia had played a pivotal role on the ancient Maritime Silk Road and today is a fulcrum for the China-Indochina Economic Corridor. Phnom Penh is the country's cultural, commercial and political center.

Zhuhai Port Holdings Group wharf [File Photo]

Vietnam's extensive coastline was historically China's southwest land-water passageway along the South China Sea. Due to extensive bilateral cooperation in cargo logistics, Vietnam has more international routes developed by Zhuhai Port Holdings than any other country. This interdependence has provided numerous convenient logistics channels for cargo owners in Southwestern China.

Zhuhai Port and Haiphong Port in Vietnam opened a shipping line in May 2017. The group already has Belt & Road lines to Japan, Singapore, Indonesia, Myanmar, the South Pacific, Hong Kong, and Macao.

Last August, Zhuhai's Gaolan Port opened the first-of-its-kind same-ship cargo route from Port of Vitoria in Espírito Santo, Brazil.

And, in 2015, the group was granted a construction order for Gwadar Port on the Persian Gulf in Pakistan. It will connect the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and certain provinces in China with Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Iran, and Iraq.