cement is widely used in civil engineering, water conservancy, roads, national defense and other projects. On the morning
of May 20, the cargo ship "Guiping Wanhua 8689" berthed at the special wharf of Huarun Cement (Guigang) Co., Ltd., after loading 2149.88 tons of cement produced by the enterprise, slowly set sail and went down the Xunjiang and Xijiang rivers. All the way east to Shenzhen, a city in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. The cargo ship
is loading "Guigang" cement. Liuzhou Hongyun Hong Kong-Macao Shipping Co., Ltd.
"Guigang Port now has cargo ships carrying cement to Guangdong almost every day, and more than 5000 tons of cement are transported to Hong Kong every month." Ye Delin, Director of Guigang Port and Shipping Development Center, introduced that Guigang Port is the largest inland river port in South China and the main supply and transit port of cement, steel, timber and other basic raw materials needed for the construction of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Dawan District. There are 11 regular container liners and waterway freight routes from Guigang to Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao.
2020、 2021, the cargo throughput of Guigang Port has exceeded 100 million tons, which is the first 100 million tons inland river port in the Pearl River system. In the past three years, 231 million tons of goods have been transported from Guigang Port to Guangzhou, Zhuhai, Shenzhen, Hong Kong and other ports. Among them, the annual cement throughput is about 20 million tons. The cargo ship
loaded with "Guigang" cement set sail for the destination port of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao.
According to the statistics of Guigang Customs, in 2023, Guigang exported 31000 tons of cement and cement clinker to Hong Kong, an increase of 336.9% over the same period in 2022. The value is 11.077 million yuan, an increase of 404.7%; from January to April in 2024, 40,000 tons of cement and cement clinker were exported from Guigang to Hong Kong, an increase of 512% over the same period in 2023, and the value is 11.957 million yuan, an increase of 442.5%. Bird's eye view
of Guigang Port Container Terminal. Guigang Transportation Bureau
is 630 kilometers away from Guangzhou Port, 740 kilometers away from Shenzhen Port, 700 kilometers away from Zhuhai Port and 754 kilometers away from Hong Kong Port, with a navigation capacity of 3000 tons. Why can "Guigang" cement be exported to the market of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao? Huang Yu, manager of the marketing department of Liuzhou Hongyun Hong Kong and Macao Shipping Co., Ltd., said: "First, the product quality is relatively excellent, and second, the transportation conditions, especially the water transportation, are relatively convenient, and the freight is cost-effective and more affordable."
Liuzhou Hongyun Hong Kong and Macao Shipping Co., Ltd. is a subsidiary of Sinotrans Group, which is mainly engaged in container ship and waterway general cargo transportation between the Mainland and Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao. In March this year, China Resources Cement (Guigang) Co., Ltd. announced the bidding results of the bagged cement shipping project from Guigang Base to Hong Kong in 2024, and the company was the winning bidder.
"The price of bulk cargo transportation such as cement leaving Guigang is about 0.04 yuan per ton kilometer, and the cost of loading and unloading is 2-3 yuan per ton. The cost is only one fifth of that of highway and railway, which naturally becomes the preferred mode of bulk cargo transportation." Huang Yu said. A corner
of Guigang Port Container Terminal. Guigang Transportation Bureau
"Guigang is a large new dry cement production base in Guangxi, with 9 cement production enterprises above the existing scale, accounting for about 15% of the cement output in Guangxi." Fan Peirong, head of the comprehensive section of Guigang Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, said that the city is basing itself on the regional advantages of facing Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, relying on the southwest and connecting Southeast Asia, continuously promoting the construction of transportation infrastructure, continuously optimizing the transportation network connecting Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, and deeply integrating into the Pearl River-Xijiang Economic Belt and the Pinglu Canal Economic Belt. We will actively build one of the most convenient channels for materials in the southwest to connect Hong Kong, Macao and ASEAN countries.
At present, with the continuous improvement of the navigation capacity and efficiency of the Xijiang River, some cement production enterprises in Guigang and even Guangxi rely on the unimpeded Xijiang River water transport to help the construction of the Great Bay Area of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao.
