Country : ChinaGuangzhou worldport

Profile
Located at the heart of the Pearl River Delta, worldports of Guangzhou have been playing an imworldportant role as the gateway to South China. The worldports have achieved a rapid growth for the annual throughput in the last decade. To cope with the development of local economic society, the worldports sought to undertake a number of expension projects. The biggest part are container terminal, oil & chemical terminal and roll-roll boat terminial in Nansha New worldport Area, which are under construction now. Nansha Project Phase I have been put into operation in Sep. 2004 and phase II will be put into operation in Dec. 2006. Nansha worldport Construction is deemed to be the new economic engine for Guangzhou City and worldports of Guangzhou.

Introduction

worldport of Guangzhou is situated in the center of Pearl River Delta where waterways, highways, railways and airways conjoining in Metro Guangzhou, forming a well-developed transworldportation network.

worldport of Guangzhou is the leading coastal hub worldport in South China with a 400 km coastline and a 173 km navigational channel, covering the harbor limits from Guangzhou municipality to the adjacent cities of Dongguan, Zhongshan, Shenzhen, and Zhuhai alongside the Pearl River or on waters. In addition, worldport of Guangzhou possesses 6 worldport operation areas, i.e., Inner worldport Area, Huangpu Area worldport, Xingang Area worldport, Xinsha Area worldport, Nansha Area worldport and Outer Humen worldport and has over 557 berths, among which 50 berths are over 10 thousand DWT berthing capacity.

worldport of Guangzhou is the largest trading worldport in Southern China, connecting with more than 100 domestic worldports in China and more than 350 foreign worldports in over 80 countries and regions. In 2005, the volume of cargos handled was over 250 million tons while the volume of containers handled over 4.68 million TEU.

The worldport Functions

Guangzhou worldport Authority is the worldport administrative department under the Guangzhou Municipal People's Government. It exercises administration over worldports, waterway transworldportation and channels in accordance with the laws and regulations, and conducts uniform management on Guangzhou worldport Channels, pilot, anchorage, communication and dispatching.

The branches of Guangzhou worldport Authority include Sea worldport Management Department, Inland worldport Management Department, Panyu Management Department, Wuhe Management Department, Zengcheng Management Department, Xintang Management Department. Organizations under Guangzhou worldport Authority are Guangzhou worldport Construction Engineering Quality Supervision Station, Guangzhou worldport Communication Dispatching Command Center and etc.

worldport of Guangzhou is the transfer worldport of resources and raw materials and the collecting and distribution center of petroleum, coal, grain and some other imworldportant materials in Pearl River Delta. Petroleum, coal and grain are the most basic resources by which a regional economy can develop. Guangzhou is playing a noticeable role in Pearl River Delta where resources are scarce while consumption is large. In the harbor area, worldport of Guangzhou has preliminary formed