- CEO
- Song Xu
- Full Time Employees
- 15,075
- Sector
- Transportation
- Industry
- Other transportation
- Address
- China Merchants Port Plaza Shenzhen GD China 518067
- IPO Date
- May 5, 1993
- Business
- China Merchants Port Group Co., Ltd. (001872.SZ) engages primarily in port investment, port operations, bonded logistics, and smart technology services as a leading global port service provider. The company operates through Port Operations, which encompass container terminal operations including ship berthing, loading and unloading, container storage, division or merger of cargoes, leasing, and maintenance, as well as bulk and general cargo terminal operations handling ores, grain forage, oil, and coal; Bonded Logistics Operations, covering logistics park operations, port transportation, airport cargo handling, warehousing leasing, customs clearance, intermodal transportation, value-added warehousing, tugboat services, tallying, and engineering supervision; and Other segments including property development, investment, and additional logistics businesses. It maintains a comprehensive global network across 51 ports in 26 countries and regions spanning Asia, Africa, Europe, Oceania, South and North America, with key domestic operations in major Chinese coastal hubs such as West Shenzhen Port Zone, Shunde New Port, Shanghai International Port Group, Ningbo Zhoushan Port, Liaoning Port, Qingdao Qianwan terminals, Tianjin Port Container Terminal, Shantou Port, Zhangzhou Port, and Zhanjiang Port, alongside activities in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and overseas homebase ports like CICT in Sri Lanka, HIPG, TCP and Vast in Brazil, LCT in Togo, NPH in Indonesia, TICT in Nigeria, PDSA in Djibouti, Kumport in Turkey, and stakes in Terminal Link; founded in 1990 as Shenzhen Chiwan Wharf Holdings Limited and renamed in December 2018, the company is headquartered in Shenzhen, China, under the control of China Merchants Group. Recent developments include signing an agreement on February 28, 2025, through holding subsidiary China Merchants Port to acquire equity in Vast, a crude oil terminal in Brazil, expanding its Latin American footprint; deploying self-developed CTOS systems at TCP in Brazil and testing at Kumport in Turkey; launching the "Piercept" artificial intelligence model and intelligent agent brand with applications in smart yards and multimodal large language models; adding over 270 electric trailers and two new power swap stations for green port initiatives; achieving 101.207 million TEUs in container throughput (up 5.7% year-on-year) and 630 million tonnes in bulk cargo (down 0.7%) in the first half of 2025; and earning an "AAA" ESG rating from WIND in August 2025, the highest in its transportation infrastructure category.