Guangzhou Nansha Phase IV Automated Terminal Opens up Foreign Trade Channel

China News Service, Guangzhou, October 29 (Reporters Guo Jun and Cai Minjie) The first newly built fully automated container terminal in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area-Guangzhou Port Nansha Port Area Phase 4 Terminal officially opened for foreign trade business on the 29th.

On the same day, the barge "Huijinqiao 168" carrying the first foreign trade heavy container berthed smoothly. The Guangzhou Maritime Department provided navigation safety services through on-site safety inspections, dynamic water supervision, and docking port operation procedures to ensure the safe and efficient completion of the first foreign trade heavy container unloading operation.

As an intelligent benchmark terminal in the Greater Bay Area, Guangzhou Port Nansha Port Phase IV Terminal has a designed annual throughput capacity of 4.9 million TEUs. The opening of the foreign trade business marks the further improvement of the container service functions of the Nansha Port Area and the full release of the port's foreign trade throughput capacity. According to estimates, after the terminal's foreign trade function is fully activated, the annual foreign trade container throughput can exceed 1 million TEUs, effectively driving the growth of foreign trade imports and exports in the Nansha Port Area, continuing to reduce the logistics costs of enterprises in the Pearl River Delta, and stabilizing the resilience of the regional supply chain and industrial chain.

In order to adapt to the new operating model of automated terminals, the Guangzhou Maritime Department has customized special supervision service measures. On the one hand, a green channel for ship customs clearance has been opened, and online pre-examination services have been implemented based on the "single window" of international trade. Convenient measures have been implemented to facilitate ships' priority in entering and leaving the port, priority in berthing and unberthing, and priority in loading and unloading, significantly reducing the time for ships to wait for berthing and customs clearance. On the other hand, an innovative three-dimensional supervision model has been implemented, combining drone cruises and electronic cruises to maintain navigation order in the front waters of the terminal around the clock, and accurately connecting automated operating systems and manual inspection processes.

Guangzhou Port Nansha Port Phase IV Terminal will accurately meet the needs of domestic and overseas markets: the import end will efficiently undertake customs clearance and transportation of high-time-efficient, high value-added goods such as fresh fruits and precision electronic components from Southeast Asia; the export end will continue to open up "Made in China" sea channels such as home appliances, photovoltaic products, new energy auto parts, etc., and promote the balanced improvement of import and export container volume and steady expansion of the port area.