As the largest comprehensive hub port in South China, Port of Guangzhou grows by leaps and bounds with its fast growing hinterlands’ economy. In 1999, Port of Guangzhou broke its annual throughput record of 100 million tons, to be the second port in Mainland China with such achievement. Afterwards, the port was making great progress year by year. In 2009, the whole Guangzhou Port accomplished cargo throughput of 410 million tons(ranking the 5th of the world) and container throughput of 12.9million TEUs (ranking the 7th of the world), among which Guangzhou Port Group acomplished 270million tons and 9.85million TEUs.
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