This year marks the 20th anniversary of the partnership between Guangzhou Port Group and Antong Holdings. On June 29, Huang Bo, Party Secretary and Chairman of Guangzhou Port Group, and Wu Chao, Deputy Party Secretary, Vice Chairman and General Manager, received a delegation led by Wang Wei, Party Secretary and Chairman of Antong Holdings Co., Ltd. (Antong Holdings), and Lou Jianqiang, Deputy Party Secretary, Director and President, at the Port Center. The two sides held talks on enhancing port services, optimizing route operations, raising logistics and supply chain standards, and expanding multimodal transport. Also attending were Zheng Lingtang, General Manager of Guangzhou Port Co., Ltd., and Deputy General Manager Sun Bangcheng; and, from Antong Holdings, Guo Chaoyang, Vice President and General Manager of the Shipping Center; Zhang Chengshui, Vice President and General Manager of the Marketing Center; Rong Xing, Vice President, Board Secretary and General Manager of the Strategy Department; and Li Hebin, Vice President and General Manager of the Operations Center, along with other leaders and relevant department heads from both sides.

 

On June 30, the two companies held a joint promotional event at Guangzhou Port's Huangpu Company, with leaders from both sides in attendance. There, Guangzhou Port Group and Antong Holdings briefed the clients and partners present on their latest developments in detail. Together, the guests looked back on a fruitful two decades of collaboration and ahead to a bright future together.

 

In April 2006, Antong Holdings' vessel Shengxing 16 made its maiden call at the Huangpu Company, setting sail fully laden with building materials and light industrial goods from the Pearl River Delta and formally opening the partnership. Over the twenty years since, the scope of cooperation has kept expanding: services grew from the original single "Huangpu–Qingdao" route into a dense network reaching major ports across the country. Its dimensions have kept deepening, from basic cargo handling to joint route operations, multimodal transport, and more—together the two pioneered the "Three Ports, One Line" premium service and drove the deeper development of their sea-rail intermodal business. And its volume and efficiency have risen steadily, with cumulative throughput crossing one ten-million-TEU milestone after another—accelerating port-shipping synergy and setting an industry benchmark for mutually beneficial, win-win cooperation.

 

With two decades as a prologue and sails set in a favorable wind, the two sides will pursue cooperation of higher quality and greater depth, jointly cultivating new quality productive forces in port and shipping. Aligned in strategy and coordinated in action, they will build an efficient, convenient, and green domestic-trade shipping ecosystem—harnessing their port and shipping strengths to serve the development of the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area and to integrate into the new development pattern of domestic and international dual circulation.（Text | Production and Operations Department  Photos | Zhu Junkun, Harbour Media)