The 1.01 million 20-foot equivalent container units Guangzhou Port Group handled in September gave the port its third straight record quarter and 8.3 million TEUs in the first nine months of the year, 17 percent ahead of last year.
Guangzhou, in the midst of China’s largest industrial manufacturing region in the Pearl River Delta, saw three new services in September at its Nansha terminal – two intra-Asia operations by Maersk and PIL, and a connection to Africa by PIL.