Tens of thousands of litres of Admiral Vodka, a Lithuanian brand, lie in large blue vats in a warehouse in the southern Chinese port of Nansha waiting to be bottled for shipment to consumers in southeast Asia.
The 900,000 litres that Nansha, the main port in Guangzhou, handles annually, alongside European wine, Scotch whisky and polyethylene plastic from the United Arab Emirates, are a few examples of how the lesser-known hub has helped Guangzhou gain ground on Hong Kong and become the seventh-largest container port.
“Nansha is one of the Chinese ports that is a little bit invisible to the outside, but it is one of the giants in a region of giants,” says Olaf Merk, a shipping expert at the OECD.
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