China News Service, Nanning, September 5 (Yang Chen, Luo Xiqing) — Guangxi Beibu Gulf International Port Group Co., Ltd. announced on September 5 that the "Zigong–Nanning Port–Can Tho Port, Vietnam" rail-river-sea intermodal train made its maiden departure from Zigong South Railway Station in Sichuan Province on the evening of September 4.
The train was loaded with two 20-foot containers of local chemical fiber products. Zigong Beibu Gulf Port Logistics Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Guangxi Beibu Gulf International Port Group, was responsible for the overall coordination and operations, providing a one-stop, end-to-end logistics service.
After the cargo was collected and containerized at the Zigong Intermodal Center of the New Western Land-Sea Corridor, it was shipped by rail to Liujing Port in Nanning, Guangxi. From there, it will seamlessly connect with foreign trade vessels via the Pinglu Canal to reach Can Tho Port in Vietnam directly by sea. This marks the official opening of southern Sichuan's first "railway + canal + sea transport" multimodal cross-border corridor relying on the Pinglu Canal to connect with ASEAN.
With this maiden voyage of the Zigong chemical fiber train, Beibu Gulf Port Logistics has precisely constructed a dedicated rail-river-sea intermodal link characterized by "originating from Zigong, transferring at Liujing, and reaching ASEAN directly." This creates an efficient and stable new route to the sea for Zigong's chemical fiber product exports to Vietnam, helping local competitive products expand sales in ASEAN and improving the quality and efficiency of the regional export-oriented economy.
Han Xu, Deputy Chief of the Ports and International Logistics Development Division of the Zigong Municipal Bureau of Commerce, stated that the Pinglu Canal reshapes the logistics landscape of China's inland Southwest opening up to the outside world, providing a major strategic opportunity for inland cities in southern Sichuan to reach the sea via rivers and deepen their presence in the ASEAN market. Zigong City will closely follow the deployment of building the New Western Land-Sea Corridor to a high standard, leverage the advantages of inland ports and bonded platforms, promote local competitive industries to expand overseas via this channel, and stimulate regional export-oriented economic vitality.
"This operation achieves an integrated closed-loop service encompassing local storage, bonded supervision, customs declaration and inspection, as well as collection, distribution, and shipment. It unblocks logistics bottlenecks for inland cities regarding 'nearby customs clearance and direct sea access,' effectively reducing transit times and lowering comprehensive logistics costs for foreign trade enterprises, thereby laying a solid channel support for southern Sichuan's export-oriented industries to go global," said Xu Huaizhou, General Manager of Zigong Beibu Gulf Port Logistics Co., Ltd.
Moving forward, Guangxi Beibu Gulf International Port Group Co., Ltd. will continue to rely on the core advantages of Pinglu Canal's river-sea intermodal transport, coordinate resources across ports, logistics, and shipping lanes, expand the multimodal transport network, and optimize customized logistics products.
