Guangzhou’s Nansha Port opens new liner route to US west coast

2021-Aug-19       Source: Newsgd.com

On August 16, the vessel PINOCCHIO successfully docked at the Nansha Port in Guangzhou. This is the first time for ALX, a direct container liner route to the West Coast of the United States, to dock a

The ALX route is the first direct liner route to the West Coast of the US launched by the Singapore-based SEA LEAD SHIPPING PTE. LTD. at the Nansha Port. The company put six 4900TEU-6350TEU container ships into bi-weekly operation at this phase and will upgrade to a weekly operation in the future.

[Photo/Zhu Junkun]

“The vessel carries more than 1,000 containers which are mainly household appliances such as televisions, ovens, microwave ovens and air conditioners. Nansha is seeing a boom in household appliance exports,” said Fu Kai, deputy manager of Nansha Port Phase III Terminal Operations Department. It’s believed that the new shipping route provides good opportunities to directly distribute Guangdong-made household appliances to the North American market, which can further reduce transportation costs and time.

The World Bank and IHS Markit, the world’s leading information services company, released the Global Container Port Performance Index (CPPI) in May. Guangzhou Port ranked sixth out of 351 ports worldwide. It also has the largest container throughput among the top five ports worldwide.

Guangzhou Port launched 15 new foreign trade shipping routes in 2021. As of today, Guangzhou Port has opened 180 container liner routes, 135 among which are foreign trade routes. Nansha Port has opened 160 liner routes. According to Nansha, the district’s foreign trade volume exceeded 120 billion yuan in the first half of 2021, up 21.5 percent year-on-year. Moreover, the container throughput of Nansha Port increased by 16.3 percent year-on-year.

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