Qinzhou Port expands vessel channel

China’s Qinzhou port in the Beibu Gulf which is hoping to increase container volumes, is widening its shipping channel to accommodate larger container ships.

The Qinzhou Port East Channel expansion project aims to make the port a gateway into Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in western China, by adapting to the increasing size of container ships. It is hoped that the expansion of the channel will achieve annual container throughputs of 10 million TEU.

Launched in July, Phase I of the project will...

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COSCO unit launches Jinzhou-Hainan service

COSCO Shipping Lines and its intra-Asia unit, Shanghai Pan Asia Shipping, have launched a service connecting Jinzhou port in China’s north-eastern Liaoning province, to Yangpu port on Hainan island.

The service began on 23 June, with the 5,089TEU Tian Long He departing Jinzhou New Age Container Terminal, calling at Qinzhou port in Beibu Gulf, and then arriving in Yangpu’s Xiaochantan Port on 3 July.

The new service is part of a wider plan to develop the Hainan Free Trade Port and was launched...

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