Full Construction Begins on Phase V of Nansha Port Area at Guangzhou Port

On the morning of May 15, with the roar of construction vessels and machinery, the Phase V project of Nansha Port Area at Guangzhou Port, a major national project, officially began full construction on Longxue Island in Nansha, Guangzhou. The project is designed with an annual container handling capacity of 6.7 million TEUs. Upon completion, the annual container handling capacity of Nansha Port Area will increase to 35 million TEUs, placing it among the world’s leading single port areas. On the same day, “Jun Guang,” the world’s leading and Asia’s largest trailing suction hopper dredger, officially joined the fleet and was put into service, providing critical dredging support for the project’s construction.

Nansha Phase V is one of the 102 major projects in China’s 14th Five-Year Plan, a core project under the strategy of building China into a transportation powerhouse, and a key supporting project for the world-class port cluster in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. Located at the southern tip of Longxue Island in Nansha District, Guangzhou, in the geographical center of the Greater Bay Area, the project has a total estimated investment of 14.447 billion yuan. According to the plan, four berths for 200,000-ton-class ocean-going container vessels will be built, together with 15 berths for 5,000-ton-class container barges and five workboat berths. With a total shoreline length of over 3,800 meters, the project will enable all-weather berthing of the world’s largest container vessels. Adopting an innovative river-sea intermodal layout with seagoing vessels on the east side and barges on the west side, the project will achieve seamless connection between ocean shipping and inland waterway transport, further improving the efficiency of river-sea intermodal transport.
Upon completion, Nansha Phase V will operate efficiently and synergistically with the existing 20 container deep-water berths in Nansha Port Area and the four deep-water berths of the International General-Purpose Terminal under construction, forming a professional, large-scale, and integrated world-class terminal cluster in South China. By then, the annual container handling capacity of Nansha Port Area will reach 35 million TEUs, significantly enhancing its berthing capacity for ultra-large vessels and the service level of ocean-going mainline services. (Fu Yan)