CMA CGM Benjamin Franklin, a super-large container ship capable of carrying 1,8000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU), arrived at Nansha port area of Guangzhou Port, south China. As the biggest container vessel on the China-US container shipping line, its voyage to Guangzhou gestured confidence of its owner - CMA CGM, a global shipping giant, in the China market.
According to Song Xiaoming, vice general manager of Guangzhou Port Co., Ltd., the shipping route taken by the giant container vessel represented Guangzhou's first new international cargo shipping line to the US in 2016. He Lvduo, general manager for south China of CMA CGM China Shipping Co., Ltd., the ports of call of the container ship are Xiamen, Chiwan, Guangzhou (Nansha), Hong Kong, Yantian, Auckland, Fuqing, Xiamen, Guangzhou (Nansha), Hong Kong and Yantian.
In the past, container ships of CMA CGM heading for the US used to carry 1,4000 TEU of containers but since 2016, it began upgrading its vessels, stressed He, adding that all of these pointed to CMA CGM's optimism towards cargo shipping from China to the west bank of the US, which rose five percent in 2015 and helped boost CMA CGM's cargo shipping by 30 percent.
As a census shows, CMA CGM operates a dozen of international cargo shipping lines involving Guangzhou Port, of which two are for the Europe, two for the America, two for Southeast Asia and five for Africa. In 2015, throughput of Guangzhou Port mounted up to 521 million tonnes, up four percent year on year, a pace already faster than comparable growths of ports in Shenzhen and Hong Kong and its container throughput grew six percent year on year to 1.76 million units, Huang Bo, vice head of Guangzhou's port affair authority said.
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