The container throughput of Guangxi's Qinzhou Port reached 4 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) in 2020, a year-on-year growth of 32.6 percent which makes it one of China's top coastal ports in terms of growth rate, officials from the administrative committee of the Qinzhou Port Area in China (Guangxi) Pilot Free Trade Zone said on Jan 15.

The regular sea-rail intermodal freight trains of the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor began to depart from Qinzhou Port early in 2017, and the port has now opened seven regular routes to destinations such as Chongqing, Sichuan's Chengdu and Gansu's Lanzhou, following three years of development.

At present, Qinzhou Port runs a total of 52 shipping routes, 18 of them being for foreign trade, connecting 203 ports in 14 provinces or regions in China and 83 countries around the world. The number of categories of goods has been increased from 163 to 191.

The construction for the automatic container wharf at 100,000 million ton level at Qinzhou Port is now in full swing. An automatic sea-rail intermodal wharf, it is expected to become the first of its kind in China, and will markedly increase the international core competitiveness of the Beibu Gulf.

The first and second phases of Qinzhou Port's east channel expansion project, being the key to turn the port into a regional main port with a handling capacity of over 10 million TEUs, is scheduled to be completed by June 2021.