While many foreign and domestic ports face pressure to raise container throughput, Beibu Gulf Port in South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region is bucking the trend after seeing growing container throughput in January, said its operator. The port's container throughput during the month amounted to 558,100 twenty-foot equivalent units, up 15 percent year-on-year, according to the latest information released by Beibu Gulf Port Group, a Shenzhen-listed company. With advances in new land-sea transit routes in western regions of the country as well as the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership agreement, the port has been making efforts to explore supply sources in western China, said the group. (....)