"Backed by the central railway station's dry wharf in the Kenyan capital, the park will become a logistics center and a new urban area with various service businesses surrounding it in the coming years.

China Harbour Engineering Co Ltd, or CHEC, a marine engineering project specialist and a CCCC subsidiary, signed a contract last month for building two berths of a specialized wharf for 100,000-ton bulk carriers in the Morowali Industrial Park in Indonesia.

Sun said the main work on building a wharf for Asia Pulp & Paper Group－the Indonesian paper product manufacturer－was completed in South Sumatra, Indonesia, on May 10.

Hong Kong's conglomerate The Wharf (Holdings) Ltd will seek to cash in on consumption upgrade and the rise of middle - and high-income earners on the Chinese mainland, one of its senior executives said.

Wharf is engaged in logistics, property investment, property development and hotel management.

Christina Hau, assistant director and general manager for retail leasing and operations of the company's mainland arm Wharf China Estates Ltd, said that economic restructuring can be seen in the rising contributions of services and consumption to GDP.

Strong domestic consumption has strengthened China's markets but has also brought challenges to commercial real estate firms such as Wharf.

Wharf, using its practical experience and business model of Harbour City in Hong Kong, has made Chengdu International Finance Square, or Chengdu IFS, a new landmark on Chunxi Road.

Wharf will continue to focus its resources and expertise on developing prime real estate projects on the Chinese mainland spanning a dozen cities, after it has established a reputation as the developer of premier landmark projects such as IFS projects and Times Square projects in Chengdu, Chongqing, Dalian, and Shanghai.

“We believe it will be competitive with and complimentary to Canary Wharf and the City of London,” Wu said.

A consortium formed by Guangdong-based Country Garden, which is China’s top real estate developer by revenue in 2017, and an unnamed Hong Kong fund bought land in Ailsa Wharf from United Kingdom developers Galliard Homes and Lindhill Homes for 80 million pounds ($113 million).

”Gary Fitzpatrick, director of Lindhill, said his company acquired land in the Ailsa Wharf area throughout the past five years.

The company is now negotiating a fully automated wharf project with Indian customers.

Meanwhile, during this year's China-Central Asia Summit, the construction of a wharf project in Kazakhstan was officially launched, in accordance with an agreement inked between the Xi'an International Trade and Logistics Park and Kazakhstan's national railways group.

At a flourishing terminal in Qinzhou, Guangxi, a giant bridge crane unloads goods under the control of automated equipment, while container trucks shuttle along a U-shaped wharf, the world's first wharf of such a shape.

The wharf uses low-speed gantry cranes, which increases operational efficiency by more than 30 percent and reduces personnel by 90 percent.

"The RCEP has revitalized existing resources in the transportation and logistics industries of the country's western regions and boosted the logistics and trade market," said Zhou Chuijian, who works at Guangxi Qinzhou Shenggang Wharf Co Ltd. From January to March this year, the container throughput of the Qinzhou Port increased by 8.9 percent year-on-year, he added.

The layout of the wharf is U-shaped, which is a first globally.

The wharf uses low-speed gantry cranes, which reduces equipment costs, construction investment, equipment energy consumption and wear and tear by more than 30 percent.

China Harbour Engineering Co Ltd, or CHEC, a marine engineering project specialist and a subsidiary of China Communications Construction Co Ltd, another Beijing-based central SOE, said in a separate development it will complete the Port of Cotonou No 5 wharf project in Benin, which belongs to the Port of Cotonou Authority, in 2024.

It mainly consists of construction of a new general wharf, the formation of a rear land area, demolition of the existing eastern breakwater, the extension of the western breakwater and dredging the harbor basin.

The East Arm Wharf has four commodity berths, an offshore supply base has three berths for oil and gas, and Port Hill Wharf has two more berths capable of receiving the largest cruise ships of the world.

With the Chinese government offering more favorable policies to boost domestic consumption, Chengdu International Finance Square, the mega integrated shopping complex owned by Hong Kong-based conglomerate Wharf (Holdings) Ltd, has pledged to deploy more resources into online sales channels and the first-store economy in the country's southwestern market this year.

Despite the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the economy, Sichuan province-based Chengdu International Finance Square, the mega integrated shopping complex owned by Wharf (Holdings), posted double-digit growth in footfalls as well as sales last year.

Strong local consumption, and integration of online and offline businesses through trends like livestreaming, had given Chengdu IFS a nearly 100 percent occupancy rate in 2020, said Christina Hau, assistant director and general manager of Wharf China Estates Ltd, a subsidiary of Wharf (Holdings) that operates the mega mall.

In the last few decades, Wharf (Holdings) has invested in and built landmark projects such as IFS and Times Square in cities like Chongqing, Shanghai and Dalian, Liaoning province.

Another IFS facility, owned and operated by Wharf (Holdings), opened in the neighboring city of Chongqing in 2017.

"Wharf enterprises will be able to arrange the connections between international liners and inland barges more reasonably, reducing the time of halts at cargo ports, cut the average storage period from five to seven days to less than two days, greatly improving the turnover efficiency of wharfs and containers," he said.

Earlier this year, a batch of made-in-China Tesla electric vehicles was shipped from the Nangang wharf of the Shanghai Free Trade Zone to Thailand for the first time.

"The terminal, which features smart and independent operations and low-carbon emissions, has contributed to the promotion of automated wharf technology," said Li Yibo, Party secretary and chairman of Guangzhou Port Group.

A roll-on-roll-off vessel loading 500 excavators and a self-discharging truck produced by Xuzhou Construction Machinery Group Co Ltd (XCMG) left for Nigeria from a wharf of the Lianyungang Port in East China's Jiangsu province recently.

"The hydraulic structure of the new oil wharf is designed to berth 450,000-ton oil tankers.

It has a 300000-ton-class wharf with a channel depth of 22 meters.

New energy auto shipments boom as quality, technology increaseWith the sound of a siren, a ship carrying 3,000 of a domestic brand's new energy vehicles left a wharf in Guangzhou's Nansha district in Guangdong province one morning in late March, bound for a port in Southeast Asia.

This also marked the debut of the transport using bulk carriers for NEV exports in Shanghai through the Zhanghuabang Wharf.

The NEV maker said that it will send another 200 pure electric trucks for export via the wharf, in the same way, later this month.

China Energy Engineering Corp Ltd said in an online statement on Wednesday that its unit in Zhejiang province launched a low-carbon wharf project at Meishan Port in Ningbo last week amid the State-owned enterprise's latest push for green transformation.

A 20-minute ride on a steamboat from the wharf of the Sandu Gulf port area in Ningde, a coastal city in Fujian province, is all that is needed to reach the fishery owned by fisherman Zheng Xiangan, 39, who has just received about 1 million yuan ($154,000) from consumers and fish sellers through a local bank's mobile app.

At the wharf, the national flag was flown at half-mast.