Guangzhou Port Group Co., Ltd. established on Feb. 26, 2004, is a wholly state-owned company. Approved by Guangzhou Municipal Government, it was reformed from the former Guangzhou Harbor Bureau in accordance with relevant Chinese laws on modern enterprise mechanism.

Guangzhou Port Group Co., Ltd. covers business as: loading & discharging, storing, bonded warehousing for cargoes as containers, oil, coal, grain, chemical fertilizer, steel, ore, automobiles etc.; agencies for ships & cargoes from home and abroad, as well as for transshipment & passenger transportation; tuggage for domestic and foreign ships; waterway cargoes & passengers transportation; logistics services; and other relevant port business.

As the largest comprehensive hub port in South China, Port of Guangzhou keeps increasing in cargo volume owing to 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 2007, the whole Guangzhou Port accomplished 340 million tons(ranking the 3rd in China's coastal ports and the 5th among the world top ten ports) and 9.203 million TEUs, and Guangzhou Port Group alone reached 230 million tons and 7.126 million TEUs.¡¡

Guangzhou Port Group possesses 50 berths, 13 buoys and 23 anchorages each of 10,000 tonnage-class and the largest capacity to be 300,000 tons.¡¡

From now to the year 2010, Guangzhou Port Group will speed up its construction and renovation, to solidify its current position as South China’s largest comprehensive hub port and to become an international container hub port in future.¡¡

It intends to create Guangzhou Port Group brand as a real multi-functional, professional logistics distribution center through a series of steps: to complete the constructions of Nansha Terminal Project, Xinsha Terminal Project Phase II, so as to offer a batch of specialized deep-water berths for containers, bulk, petrol-chemical and automobiles; to complete Guangzhou Port Plaza Project, Renovation Projects for Huangsha Aquatic Products Wholesale Market and Zhoutouzui District, so as to enhance its integrated strength; and to introduce information platform for port operation.