Nanning Port welcomes first foreign trade ship berthing operation

China News Service, Nanning, September 8 (Reporter Huang Yanmei) On the evening of September 7, as the Panamanian foreign trade ship "Beigang Nanning Borun" berthed at the Six Scenery Operation Area of ​​Nanning Port, Guangxi, Nanning Port ushered in the first berthing operation of foreign trade ships in history. After completing loading and unloading operations at Nanning Port, the ship will sail to Can Tho Port in Vietnam.

The Nanning Municipal Transportation Bureau stated that the successful berthing of the first foreign trade ship at Nanning Port will effectively open up the inland foreign trade navigation channel, help Nanning accelerate the transformation from an inland hinterland city to a regional open door, and accumulate practical experience for the full navigation of the Pinglu Canal and the normal operation of river-sea combined transport.

The Pinglu Canal, the backbone project of the New Land-Sea Corridor in Western China, will be completed and open to navigation on September 16. This is the first canal linking rivers and seas to be constructed at the national level since the founding of the People's Republic of China.

Nanning is the starting point city of Pinglu Canal and the core cargo hinterland. After the Pinglu Canal is opened to navigation, it will create the shortest and most cost-effective waterway channel from southwestern China to ASEAN. Nanning will be upgraded from a "city along the Xijiang River" to a "river-sea combined transport hub city", realizing direct connection between the Xijiang shipping trunk line and the Beibu Gulf Port.

Recently, the Ministry of Transport of China approved the temporary opening of the water transport ports No. 1 to 6 in the operation area of ​​the Eight Lian Joint Factory in the Liujing Port District of Nanning Port, marking that the specific operation area of ​​Nanning Port has the conditions to open to international navigation ships, and a key step towards the goal of "Navigation of the Pinglu Canal means water transport port customs clearance".

According to the Nanning Municipal Transportation Bureau, Nanning City coordinates and promotes the construction of port infrastructure and information systems, and promotes Nanning Port to obtain Guangxi's first inland river "Port Facility Security Compliance Certificate", filling the gap in security qualifications for Guangxi's inland river ports opening to the outside world, and providing key institutional guarantees for the opening of Nanning Port to the outside world and the safe passage of international ships on the Pinglu Canal.

In terms of berth upgrading and reconstruction, Nanning has completed the upgrading and reconstruction of the berths in the Six Scenery Operation Area, adding a 40-ton gantry crane and a 41-ton quay crane, which greatly improved the loading, unloading and transshipment capacity and can meet the normal operation needs of 5,000-ton river-sea direct ships. (over)