Guangzhou Port, situated at the intersection of the three most important rivers of Dongjiang, Xijiang and Beijiang in South China, showed the fastest growth in container throughput among China's ports in the first half of the year with a 43 percent year-on-year rise.

The port handled 4.39 million TEUs in the first half of 2007.
The Nansha harbour area contributed most of the throughput at 2.03 million TEUs, a 72.1 percent rise year-on-year. The port handled 166 million tonnes of cargo during the period, up 10 percent from the same period last year.

The Nansha area will get six 100,000-tonnage container berths in its first and second phases and four such berths will be added on September 28 this year, which is expected to drive the area's container throughput to 4.4 million TEUs this year.

The port being situated beyond the entrance of Pearl River opening serves as a gateway for shipping activity for also other harbour areas such as Xinsha and Huangpu.

Guangzhou port is to build 39 deep-water berths between 2006 and 2010 to boost throughput to over 400 million tonnes of cargo and 14 million TEUs by 2010.