Qinzhou Port

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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Zhonggu to develop container logistics base in Beibu Gulf

Chinese domestic container liner operator Zhonggu Shipping Group has signed an agreement with Guangxi Beibu Gulf International Port Group and Guangxi Free Trade Pilot Zone Qinzhou Port Area to jointly develop a US$70 million container multimodal logistics base in Qinzhou port in the Guangxi autonomous region.

This development, named Zhonggu Qinzhou Container Intermodal Logistics Base is part of Guangxi Beibu Port’s plan to boost Qinzhou’s annual container volumes to around 10 million TEU.

Guangxi...

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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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