Economic Daily reported on 1 November 2026 that Liuzhou in Guangxi, though inland, has opened a home-port style sea link through Liuzhou Railway Port on the Western Land-Sea New Corridor.
From January to September 2026 the port dispatched 1.9456 million tonnes of cargo, 1.88 times the whole of 2025, and 17,000 TEU of containers, 22 times 2025. A local development official said the corridor is delivering real gains for firms and industry, not only a line on a map.
The port is built around industrial clusters. At SAIC-GM-Wuling's CKD packing workshop, parts are wrapped and boxed on site. Leading firms such as SAIC-GM-Wuling and LiuGong sit within a 30-minute logistics radius of the port area, and products can move from end of line to stuffed box in under 30 minutes. Forward warehouses keep packing, stuffing and dispatch next to the production rhythm.
Unmanned short-haul vehicles run rail collection, park warehousing and city distribution under an AI dispatch centre. In May 2026 the Liuzhou Railway Port customs supervision site opened and cleared its first rail-sea export. Liuzhou Customs said one-stop clearance with arrival inspection and port-direct loading saves about 48 hours per shipment versus prior practice. A digital Western Land-Sea Corridor system replaces manual seal checks with smart matching of container and seal numbers, cutting about RMB 250 per box and speeding release so cargo can move from train to ship faster.
A Liuzhou-Qinzhou-ASEAN rail-sea block train runs regularly. Inland-port brands with Guangzhou Port and Beibu Gulf Port link Liuzhou to three coastal gateways: Beibu Gulf, Guangzhou and Shenzhen. After the Pinglu Canal opened in September, planners expect time-sensitive cargo to keep using rail-sea to the gulf while cost-sensitive cargo can choose canal river-sea options. Port managers said the next step is stronger one-document and one-box models so manufacturers focus on orders while the corridor handles outbound capacity, cost and transit predictability.