Guiyang International Land Port sees strong Q1 results

In the first quarter of this year, container throughput at Guiyang International Land Port in Guiyang, capital of Southwest China's Guizhou province, reached 13,430 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs), achieving 112 percent of its quarterly target.

A China-Europe freight train loaded with Geely auto parts departs for Minsk. [Photo/ddcpc website]

As a key international logistics hub in Southwest China, strategically positioned by Guizhou province as a transit and consolidation center for trade with ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations), Central Asia, and Europe, the port has successively launched multiple rail services. These include China-Europe (Central Asia) trains heading north to connect with the Eurasian continent, China-Laos trains heading west to reach RCEP (Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership) member states and ASEAN, New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor trains heading south to the Beibu Gulf estuary in Guangxi, and Guizhou-Guangdong trains heading east to the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

During the first quarter of 2026, the port launched its first dedicated China-Europe freight train for Geely Automobiles. In addition, new business contracts were signed for over 700,000 metric tons of cargo, with a total contract value exceeding 900 million yuan ($132.51 million).

Last year, Guizhou issued guidelines supporting the high-quality development of Guiyang International Land Port. Since then, Guizhou Railway Investment Group Co has been actively advancing the implementation of supporting policies, aiming to establish a major international freight hub in Southwest China and the nation's first comprehensive bonded international land port.

To enhance operational efficiency, the port has partnered with Guiyang Free Trade Zone, Guizhou Intermodal Transportation Co, and Guizhou Yuanhai Land Port Development Co to build an integrated "free trade zone-port" platform, an intermodal transport platform, and a land-sea collaboration platform.

It has also established "combined ports" with Guangzhou Port, Shenzhen Port, Beibu Gulf Port, Zhanjiang Port, and others, effectively transforming Guizhou from a remote endpoint into a frontier gateway for opening-up.