China News Service, Guangzhou, July 7th (Cai Minjie Gu Lixin) Guangzhou Port Group announced that in the first half of this year (January to June) Guangzhou Port Group handled more than 800,000 commercial vehicles, a year-on-year increase of 3.9%, of which exports exceeded 10%. 10,000 vehicles, a year-on-year increase of 110.4%.

　　Guangzhou Port is located at the estuary of the Pearl River and the center of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. It is one of the earliest vehicle import ports in mainland China.

　　In recent years, Guangzhou Port has promoted the construction of ro-ro capacity, built a commercial vehicle collection and distribution system integrating highway (road), railway (road) and water (road), and formed the east and west banks of Xinsha Port Area and Nansha Port Area. The business layout of docking, the annual roll-on business volume is stable at more than 1.5 million vehicles.

　　In order to seize the opportunities for the construction of Guangzhou's international shipping hub and the development of the domestic automobile industry, Guangzhou Port has focused on promoting the construction of a number of key projects including the near-ocean wharf, Xinsha Phase II, and ro-ro barges.

On July 1st, with the successful completion of the delivery and acceptance of the near-ocean garage project, the near-ocean wharf project in the Nansha port area has been fully completed. Guangzhou Port has 11 special berths for ro-ro vehicles of more than 10,000 tons, and one-time storage in the port area. With a capacity of more than 80,000 vehicles and a one-time storage capacity of 50,000 vehicles outside the port area, it will build the largest ro-ro logistics hub in South China and even in China.

　　With the gradual release of the new capacity of the port area, Guangzhou Port is gradually growing into a major channel for automobiles to go to sea serving the Greater Bay Area and the surrounding hinterland and connecting the world.

In terms of foreign trade, Guangzhou Port has undertaken the important task of connecting China's overseas gateway hubs. In the first half of the year, foreign trade import and export business outperformed the market, and the market share of ro-ro medium-sized vehicles imported from the mainland expanded to 40%.

In terms of exports, since last year, K-LINE, NYK, Anji Shipping and other shipping companies have been introduced to open 7 additional foreign trade routes, further enhancing the layout of the ro-ro network in Europe, Southeast Asia and other regions, driving the group's commercial vehicle exports to exceed 100,000 units for the first time in the first half of the year. , of which 4,000 new energy vehicles were exported, and the ro-ro export cooperative brands were expanded to more than 30.

　　In terms of vehicle collection and distribution, combined with the opening of the Nansha Port railway and the launching of ro-ro barges, Guangzhou Port Group designed multimodal transportation solutions for enterprises such as sea-rail and ro-ro barges.

According to statistics, in the first half of the year, there were 29,000 sea-rail combined transportation of commercial vehicles exported through Guangzhou Port, a year-on-year increase of 163.6%; since the trial operation in the second quarter, the ro-ro barge has operated 31 voyages accumulatively. Nearly 4,000 vehicles.

　　At the same time, thanks to the support of various ports, the ro-ro ships berthing at Guangzhou Port have adopted the quarantine mode of "ship to person arrival, immediate inspection upon arrival", which has shortened the pre-quarantine time. Enterprises apply customs clearance facilitation measures such as "advance declaration" and "two-step declaration" to quickly go through customs clearance procedures.

　　The relevant person in charge of Guangzhou Port Group stated that, relying on the continuously improved terminal capacity and increasingly perfect vehicle logistics facilities, Guangzhou Port will be built into a “three major bases” such as vehicle testing and certification, vehicle maintenance and modification, and vehicle financial services. Automobile international comprehensive service hub.

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