According to Nansha district’s report, the cargo throughput of Guangzhou Port reached 636 million tons in 2020, ranking it fourth in the world. And 490 million tons of the volume went to domestic trade, which makes it top in China.

Guangzhou Port has handled 3.01 billion tons of cargo from 2015 to 2020 and its container throughput reached 108 million twenty-foot equivalent (TEUs) during this period. Compared to 2011 to 2015 which is known as China’s twelfth five-year plan period, the growth rates are 25.8 percent and 36.7 percent respectively.

Guangzhou Port has opened 226 container routes. It is the biggest container port for domestic trade in China and an important port connecting with Africa, the Mediterranean and other Asian countries.

Guangzhou Port also adopted a new model to facilitate the freight transport among the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. Now the model covers 10 ports of the Greater Bay Area including Zhongshan’s Xiaolan Port and Foshan Port.

Nansha district is also improving its service for cross border e-commerce. Its overall customs clearance time for import and export has been compressed to 14.85 hours and 1.7 hours respectively.

It’s expected that Guangzhou Port’s cargo throughput will reach 680 million tons and its container throughput will reach 28 million TEUs during the fourteenth five-year plan period (2021-2025). The Port also plans to increase its container routes to 260 during this period.