China's Beibu Gulf Port sees over 200m tons cargo throughput in Jan-Aug

NANNING -- In the first eight months of this year, the cargo throughput of Beibu Gulf Port in South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region exceeded 200 million tons, up 11.35 percent year-on-year, the port operator said.

According to Beibu Gulf Port Group, more than 5 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) of containers were handled by the port from January to August, up 14.98 percent year-on-year.

Thanks to continuous efforts to improve efficiency, the waiting time for the berth of bulk and general cargo carriers, as well as container ships, decreased by 23 percent and 54 percent year-on-year, respectively, in the first eight months.

Guangxi's Beibu Gulf Port is an important transit point in the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor, a trade and logistics passage jointly built by western Chinese provincial regions and ASEAN members.