Smart port epitomizes vitality of Greater Bay Area

GUANGZHOU — The clamor one would typically expect to see at a busy port is distinctly absent in the new automated container terminal of Nansha Port in South China's Guangdong province, the newest smart port in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

Nansha Port, a major part of Guangzhou Port, built container terminals in four phases, handling over 18 million twenty-foot equivalent units in 2022. The automated container terminal, Nansha Port's fourth-phase project, has a designed handling capacity of 4.9 million TEUs a year.

No workers are seen on site as colossal bridge cranes precisely locate and lift containers from huge docked freighters, efficiently transporting them to automated vehicles.