Construction of the main body of the Nos 9 and 10 container terminals at the Dalanping South Operation Area in Qinzhou Port, South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, has been completed, bringing to an end foundational work on China's first sea-rail automated container terminals.
A view of the construction site of the automated container terminals at the Dalanping South Operation Area in Qinzhou Port, South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region [Photo/sasac.gov.cn]
Located at the Beibu Gulf in Guangxi, the project includes construction of two 100,000-metric ton container terminals, 783 meters of shoreline and 421 meters of retaining wall, and about 446,000 square meters of harbor basin dredging area.
The newly-completed container terminals and the Nos 7 and 8 container terminals at the port are expected to form the world's first U-shaped fully-automatic container port with an annual cargo handling capacity of 2.63 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs).
Once fully operational, the port is expected to elevate Beibu Gulf into an international port capable of handling millions of TEUs and promote connectivity between the inland and coastal areas. The result will be a new pattern to open China further through links running eastward and westward, across land and sea alike.
(Executive editor: Wang Ruoting)
