On June 19, 2024, Mr. Li Mingzhong, Deputy General Manager of Guangzhou Port Co., Ltd., led a delegation to visit the company and met with Mr. Fu Xiangdong, Chairman of Sunward Intelligent, and others. Heads of Guangzhou Port Logistics Company, the Production and Business Department, and United International Ship Agency accompanied the visit. Long Jucai, Deputy General Manager of Sunward Intelligent, attended, and relevant personnel from the High-end Marketing Management Center, the Logistics Company, and the International Marketing Company participated in the talks.

Fu Xiangdong delivers a welcome speech

Li Mingzhong delivers a speech

Mr. Li and his delegation successively visited the underground engineering equipment commissioning and transfer yard, the excavator production workshop, and the cultural exhibition hall, where they learned about a number of world-leading or globally pioneering major national equipment—the world's largest static pile press, the world's largest multifunctional pile frame, the globally pioneering self-propelled full-slewing drilling rig and other high-end equipment—as well as Sunward's development history and corporate culture. 

Visiting the excavator workshop

In the conference room, the two sides held talks in a friendly and warm atmosphere. Chairman Fu extended a warm welcome to Mr. Li and his delegation and introduced the company's basic situation, shareholding structure, and development achievements. Both sides jointly reviewed the batch application of Sunward Intelligent excavators in cargo handling at Guangzhou Port, and Mr. Li spoke highly of Sunward Intelligent's innovation and development. Mr. Li said that, following the route of General Secretary Xi's inspection, he visited Sunward Intelligent's production workshops and commissioning yard and felt the high degree of intelligence of Sunward's production lines; seeing the wide array of high-end products that are aesthetically pleasing and technologically advanced, he felt even more the strength of Sunward's innovation!

During the talks, both sides expressed their willingness to strengthen cooperation. Guangzhou Port Group and Guangzhou Industrial Investment Holdings, the parent company of Sunward Intelligent, recently signed a strategic cooperation agreement. On this basis, the two sides will further expand and deepen cooperation in equipment procurement, engineering cooperation, equipment leasing, freight logistics, and other areas, with the aim of combining strengths, complementing advantages, and creating brilliance together!

Visiting the cultural exhibition hall

Guangzhou Port is one of the world's top ten ports, with an annual cargo throughput of nearly 600 million tons. It is the largest comprehensive main hub port in South China, China's largest domestic trade container port, an international container trunk-line port, and a core hub port for African and Mediterranean routes. It is an important pillar for Guangzhou's construction of an international comprehensive transportation hub and a strategic resource for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area's development of a modern comprehensive transportation system. Guangzhou Port Group has four major port areas: Inner Port, Huangpu, Xinsha, and Nansha. It currently has a total of 207 container routes, including 162 foreign trade container liner routes. Guangzhou Port Group is the brand port enterprise in South China with the largest number of berths, the most complete range of cargo handling categories, the largest throughput scale, and the greatest influence.

Sunward Intelligent is a representative of the high-end equipment manufacturing industry under Guangzhou Industrial Investment Holdings, a Fortune Global 500 company. It has ranked among the world's top 50 construction machinery enterprises for many consecutive years and is one of the leaders in the global underground engineering equipment field. It is a global solutions provider integrating equipment design, manufacturing, construction methods, and construction. It holds a leading position particularly in static pile presses, rotary drilling rigs, integrated down-the-hole drilling rigs, and multifunctional pile frames, and also has an advantageous position in the full range of excavators and aerial work platforms.