Export Routes and Landed Cost
The route a shipment takes often matters as much as its price. Since September 2026 the Pinglu Canal connects the inland waterway system at Nanning directly to the Beibu Gulf at Qinzhou, cutting the inland leg to the sea by more than 560 kilometres and reducing overall logistics cost by eighteen to thirty percent for cargo from Guangxi, Yunnan and Guizhou.
What this covers
Traditional eastern route
Down the Xi River to Guangzhou, then by sea.
Pinglu Canal route
Nanning to Qinzhou on the Beibu Gulf, then by sea.
China–Laos railway
Kunming to Vientiane, onward to Thailand and Malaysia.
Road to border crossings
Pingxiang, Dongxing and Mohan for time-critical cargo.
How to use it
A landed-cost estimate combines seven elements: ex-works price, inland transport, port and customs charges, main carriage, destination clearance, duty and value added tax, and final delivery. Comparing two or three routes on the same shipment usually shows a spread large enough to change the buyer's decision — and the fastest route is rarely the cheapest.
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Data status
This section is being populated from our standards and trade database. Reference data current as of 2026-10-08. Where a figure is not yet available we mark it rather than estimate it, and pages are regenerated as the underlying data grows.