(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) Exploring Ningbo Zhoushan Port to resume production: set trucks to shuttle containers to move up and down

China News Service, Ningbo, April 4th (Reporter Lin Bo) On the long coastline of Ningbo Zhoushan Port, the trucks shuttled back and forth, the gantry cranes moved up and down, a busy scene. Zhu Shijie, a bridge crane driver of Ningbo Beilun Third Container Terminal Co., Ltd., dressed in gray-green overalls, and a national model worker, looked at the rows of containers in the distance and started a new day of work.

"There is a joke on our wharf, that is," the earth does not explode and the wharf does not stop working. "We have been working continuously in the epidemic." Zhu Shijie said that Ningbo Zhoushan Port, as an important logistics hub, has been maintained during the outbreak Running.

After the epidemic occurred, Zhu Shijie admitted that he also had feelings of fear. "But as the normalization work progresses, the feelings of fear also dissipate, and the work makes people forget to be afraid."

In fact, from 2006, the 7 millionth standard container of Ningbo Zhoushan Port was hoisted. By 2017, the world ’s first "1 billion tons large port" crane was completed, and then to "guarante production" under the current epidemic, and work in Ningbo Zhoushan Port. For more than 20 years, Zhu Shijie deeply felt the great changes in this port area.

Indeed, it is precisely because of the perseverance of port staff like Zhu Shijie that Ningbo Zhoushan Port can maintain normal operation.

The picture shows Ningbo Zhoushan Port. Photo by Lin Bo

As we all know, as an important container shipping port in mainland China, China's largest iron ore transit base and crude oil transshipment base, China's important liquid chemical storage and transportation base and an important coal and grain storage and transportation base in East China, Ningbo Zhoushan Port is China One of the main hub ports.

In 2019, the port completed a container throughput of 27.53 million TEUs, ranking among the top three in the world for two consecutive years; the completed cargo throughput was 1.12 billion tons, which is the world's only super-large port with a cargo throughput exceeding 1.1 billion tons in one year.

The port is a barometer of the national economy, and plays a vital role in orderly promoting the resumption of production and production and maintaining the stability of the global industrial chain and supply chain.

On the premise of ensuring that the epidemic prevention work is in place, Ningbo Zhoushan Port arranges sufficient human and material resources to meet the needs of social logistics, ensuring that the port area does not stop work or production, and the port operates smoothly. After full resumption of production, Ningbo Zhoushan Port's port production and distribution system has also been quickly restored.

On February 25, the "Yiwu-Ningbo Zhoushan Port" sea-rail combined transportation was resumed every day; on March 11, Zhuji-Ningbo Zhoushan Port-Sea combined railway was opened for the first special train ... Under the epidemic situation, according to the "two hands must be hard, The requirement to win both wars has not stopped at the pace of Ningbo Zhoushan Port.

Mao Jianhong, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of the Zhejiang Haigang Group and Ningbo Zhoushan Port Group, said that as an important hub for global import and export of goods, Ningbo Zhoushan Port will accelerate the promotion of sea railways, sea rivers, rivers and seas on the premise of ensuring that epidemic prevention work is in place. The contribution of the intermodal transportation business to the import and export of goods and the service economy, and in response to the actual difficulties of the enterprise, continue to improve the port's production service level, help ensure the smooth flow of ports and the stable development of foreign trade, and strive to build a world-class strong port.

At present, Ningbo Zhoushan Port has established trade lanes with more than 600 ports in more than 190 countries and regions, and opened nearly 250 container routes, including more than 120 ocean-going trunk lines; it has 17 sea-rail intermodal trains, and its business scope covers Jiangxi 53 cities in 15 provinces including Anhui, Anhui, Shaanxi and Gansu, and then extended to countries in Central Asia, North Asia and Eastern Europe. (Finish)