Beihai Port Welcomes Largest Woodchip Vessel Since Its Opening
Ship’s Deadweight Tonnage Reaches 59,561 Tons
On October 24, Beihai Port was bustling with activity as staff worked at full capacity to unload the largest woodchip vessel since the port’s opening—the M/V Cedar, fully loaded with 59,561 tons of Australian woodchips. Since the beginning of this year, Beihai has implemented multiple measures to enhance cross-border trade facilitation, leading to steady growth in imports of woodchip raw materials from countries such as Vietnam, Thailand, Australia, and South Africa. In the first three quarters, the public terminals at Beihai Port have cumulatively unloaded over 2.65 million tons of woodchips, a year-on-year increase of 6.9%.
It is understood that the berthed M/V Cedar is 217 meters long and 37 meters wide, carrying 59,561 tons of woodchips from Portland Port, Australia. To complete the unloading task with high quality, the port authorities, in collaboration with Beihai Terminal Company, adhered to the “one enterprise, one policy” service philosophy, tailoring a one-stop logistics solution covering berthing, loading and unloading, storage, and cargo pickup. This ensured efficient customs clearance, unloading, and warehousing of the ship’s woodchips, guaranteeing a highly efficient and smooth supply chain for the customer.
In recent years, Beihai has been fully committed to developing a high-end papermaking industry, forming a complete industrial chain cluster centered around leading enterprises such as Nine Dragons Paper and Sun Paper. It has become an important production base for high-end paper products in South China and even nationwide, leading to a continuously rising demand for imported woodchips. To meet this demand, Beihai Port has continuously optimized its business environment, leveraging its geographical advantages of global connectivity and radiating into the hinterland. It has deepened integration with port-side industries, further strengthened connectivity with ASEAN, expanded high-level opening-up, and continuously stimulated the synergy between land and sea as well as the interaction between the port and industries.
With the steady development of the papermaking industry, in the first three quarters of this year, the container throughput for paper and pulp shipped via containers at Beihai Port reached 145,500 TEUs, a year-on-year increase of 12%. The smooth flow of goods “from the mountains to the sea” and efficient logistics reflect the robust development trend of the port and its port-side economy. Beihai Port is increasingly becoming the open gateway and core hub for the regional high-end papermaking industry. (Reporter Qin Hongtu, Correspondent Li Siru)
