What is the situation of Fangchenggang Port?

Fangchenggang, located on the northern shore of Beibu Gulf in the south of Guangxi, is a good deep-water port at the southernmost tip of Chinese mainland coastline and one of the national 19 hub ports.

Fangchenggang has a unique geographical location and conditions. The harbor is deep in water, sheltered from the wind, short in waterway, free from siltation, with a vast urban and land area and a long usable coastline. The port is located in the center of southwest China and Southeast Asia, backed by the economic hinterland of southwest China; Vietnam is adjacent to Guangdong, Hainan and Australia in the west, which is the most convenient sea passage from southwest to Southeast Asia and to the world. 1983, Fangchenggang was listed as an open port by the State Council, and the pace of port construction was accelerating. Since 1987, the port throughput has increased year by year. 1998, the throughput exceeded 7 million tons. At present, Fangchenggang has 28 berths, including 4 deep-water berths of over 10,000 tons/kloc-0; The container berth has an annual throughput of 250,000 TEUs, and the actual annual throughput of the port exceeds 25 million tons. As one of the 20 major hub ports along the coast of China, it undertakes the main transshipment task of goods in and out of southwest and south-central China.

Since opening to the outside world, Fangchenggang has traded with 230 ports in 80 countries and regions, and opened container routes to Korea, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore and Hong Kong, as well as passenger and cargo ro-ro routes to Hainan. At present, transit bases for grain, fertilizer, cement, ore, coal and chemical industry have been built.

In 2004, the city's cargo throughput was nearly 20 million tons, of which Fangchenggang completed160,000 tons. With the commissioning of the 200,000-ton wharf in Fangchenggang and the accelerated construction of the 10,000-ton berth 13- 17, the annual comprehensive throughput of the port is expected to reach 60 million tons in the next five years, and the core competitiveness of the port will be further enhanced.