b'32American Journal ofTransportation ajot.comPort of Nansha coming up big for shippers and the supply chainThe Port of Nansha, part of thelargestportsidecoldstorageware-Guangzhou Port Group, is coming uphouse.Forinstance,NanshaInter-big. And for a lot of reasons. nationalColdChainwarehouseisa TostartwithNanshaisthe6thpart of the Port. Reefer containers dis-largest port in the world with 24.8 mil- charging from a vessel can be moved lion TEUs a year, not to mention thatto the warehouse seamlessly by port Nansha is also Chinas fastest grow- trailers, a more convenient, efficient, ing port. And when it comes to big,andcosteffectivewayofhandling Nanshacanhandlethebiggest.Ontemperature-controlled commodities.April 10 thof this year, the worlds larg- TheimportanceofthePorts est container ship, the MSC IRINA,location also contributes to reducing with a slot capacity of 24,346 TEUs,ashipperscarbonfootprint.How? dockedatthecontainerterminalofByreducingtheindirectupstream NanshaPhaseIIcontainerterminal.emissions ex-factory. For example, a Launched in March of 2023, the 1,312US based importer using a vendor in foot vessel, has a breadth of over 200Gaoming can cut nearly an hour off feet and a fully laden draught of 53the truck transit time by using Nansha feet and stows containers 25 across.over Shekou and even more truck tran-Appropriatelytheworldslarg- sit time is saved over the ports of Yan-est container ship is operated by thetian and Hong Kong. With less truck worlds largest container ship opera- miles, an overseas importer reduces it tor,MediterraneanShippingCocarbon footprint and moves the goods (MSC) of Geneva, Switzerland. Withmore efficientlya win, win for the the addition of the MSC IRINA to theenvironment and the supply chain.Aerial view of the Port of Nanshafleet, there have been 13 mega-con-tainerships with a maximum container carrying capacity of more than 19000 TEUsontheMediterraneanAM2 channel calling Nansha.But there is more to the Port of Nansha than just being able to handle mega-containerstheporthandles the world biggest ships with remark-able efficiency. Recently,ShanghaiShipping Exchange (SSE) released the averageGUANGZHOU PORT GROUPport stay time and the average berth time of the first half of year 2023 of ocean-goinginternationalvesselsatTHE FASTEST GROWING PORT IN SOUTH CHINAmajor ports in the world. In the report Nansha ranks first in its average berth5th largest port in the world with 24.8M teus a year! time with 0.62 day and second in its24.8M TEUS IN 2022!average port stay time with 0.92 day. And it isnt just the Shanghai ShippingMore East Coast port calls would benefit Exchange(SSE)thatisimpressed5TH LARGEST PORT GLOBALLYwith the Ports efficiency. The Port ofwhole BCO community, shippers say.Nansha is ranked 9th out of 348 ports in the World Banks 2022 ContainerPORT OF NANSHA (GUANGZHOU PORT GROUP)Port Performance Index (CCPI).Beyond the CCPI rankings is theNew On Dock Rail (connecting theNew Terminal (4th) Fully Automatedoperational fact that the Port of NanshaHinterlands + Europe) Open 24/7/365isopen24/7,365daysayear,withNew Cold and Dry Warehousing16+ Berths, 70+ Cranes and Deep nocongestion,31-minutetruckturn times, 36 gates-in and 24 gates-out.Facilities with Air-Sea + Rail EnablingWaterAndbesidesbeingefficient,theEcommerce ShippersPortofNanshaisalsoexceptionally resilient.ThePortofNanshanever closedduringtheCOVID-19pan-demic. In fact, when the neighboring Port of Yantian closed during the pan-demic, the Port of Nansha was able to ratchet up its handling capacity and was able to service approximately 224,000 incremental containers and accommo-date around 25 new liner services. No doubt, besides the efficiency of the port facilities, the location of the Port of Nansha has contributed to the rapid growth. The Port of Nansha is located at the southernmost end of Guangzhou City, on the western side of the Pearl River Delta Region (PRD) intheheartofthePRDeconomic dynamoonly 53-miles northwest of the Hong Kong SAR. Importantly, the Port of Nansha is the only deep-water port on the western side of the PRD.That location puts it easily within range of many of the regions BCOs. For example, the port is only a ten-minute drive away from the bustlingS.CHINA PORT WITH N.AMERICA AND Jointek Global Logistics Park. JointekEU/UK REPRESENTATIONGlobal is a global fine food complex located in Nansha, Guangzhou, with atotalconstructionareaof350,000FOR MORE INFORMATION, VISIT US ATPORTOFNANSHA.COMsquaremeters.Abusinesscomple-mentedbyaccesstothecountrys'