In 2021, the total import and export trade volume of Yangpu Port will be 36.69 billion yuan, an increase of more than 1,100 times compared with ten years ago.
From the deserted beach to the "model room" of the free trade port
In the early morning, Hainan Yangpu International Container Terminal woke up in the crimson sunrise: the giant freighter slowly entered the port, the robotic arm of the quay crane grabbed the containers from the freighter, and stacked them neatly like building blocks. busy.
Faced with the risks and challenges brought by the epidemic, the port has not relaxed its production and operation while paying close attention to epidemic prevention and control.
In the first quarter of this year, the cumulative throughput was 403,300 TEUs, setting a record for the same period in history.
Yangpu Port is located in the northwest of Hainan Island and belongs to the Yangpu Economic Development Zone. It is one of the shipping hubs of the new land-sea passage in western China and the intersection of the international land-sea passage in western my country and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road.
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized during his recent inspection at Yangpu International Container Terminal that promoting the development of the port and the construction of Yangpu Economic Development Zone and free trade port complement each other and promote each other, so as to better serve the construction of the new western land-sea corridor and the joint construction of the "Belt and Road".
According to statistics, last year, Yangpu Port completed a total container throughput of 1.3183 million TEUs, a year-on-year increase of 29.33%.
This speed ranks first among seaports with more than 1 million TEUs in the country.
From the former peninsula wasteland to today's "model room" of the free trade port, along with the spring breeze of opening to the outside world, Yangpu Port will strive to be the first to move towards a more profound blue.
Trade routes continue to be encrypted to achieve full coverage of major domestic coastal ports and ASEAN coastal countries
Yangpu Port is named after the Yangpu Peninsula.
Yangpu Peninsula is surrounded by the sea on three sides. For a long time, except for stones and cacti, there were only a few small villages around.
However, with the natural advantages of deep water and near shore, shelter from wind and less silt, and with the policy support of the Party Central Committee, it has developed from a deserted island into an open and integrated free trade port.
Especially in recent years, the throughput capacity has increased rapidly.
Today's Yangpu has 47 berths and 32 berths above the 10,000-ton level, with a throughput capacity of 113 million tons and a throughput capacity of 110 million tons.
In the gourd-shaped Yangpu Bay, all kinds of ships can be seen every day.
The whistle blared, igniting the once desolate coastline.
A row of neat containers has become a new landscape here.
Last year, the container throughput capacity of the entire Yangpu port area increased from 1.6 million TEUs to 2.2 million TEUs.
It is estimated that by 2025, the container throughput capacity of the entire port area will reach 6.5 million TEUs.
More than 80% of container handling operations at Yangpu Port are located at Yangpu International Container Terminal (formerly known as Xiaochantan Terminal).
Although Yangpu International Container Terminal is so capable, it is actually just a young terminal "more than four years old".
In 2017, the terminal only started trial operation.
"In the early days of the terminal's opening, there were not many ships in a week, mainly short-distance small cargo ships, and the operating container volume in a month was only about 20,000 TEUs." Xiang Yang, deputy general manager of Hainan Chenggang Logistics Service Co., Ltd., is in charge of container loading and unloading at the terminal. In the past few years, he has really felt the rapid development of the terminal. "Now our monthly operation volume has reached 60,000 or 70,000 TEUs, which is three times the original. There were not many foreign trade ships in a month. Ships, now there are more than one a week. The wages of employees are nearly three times higher than before.”
The increase in the number of containers at the terminal has benefited from the continuous encryption of international trade routes, which has driven the rapid development of the shipping industry in Yangpu.
In September 2020, Yangpu International Container Terminal opened the first intercontinental transoceanic route in Hainan Free Trade Port, and began to advance towards a broader "deep blue".
In 2021, Yangpu has opened five new domestic and foreign trade routes, especially in October last year, opened the new western land-sea channel for rail-sea combined transport, opening up the route from Chongqing to Yangpu to ASEAN.
This is the first time that the new western land-sea corridor has realized the "rail-sea combined transport + domestic and foreign trade on the same ship", which means that there are more logistics options for the export of foreign trade goods along the route.
"At present, Yangpu International Container Terminal has opened 12 domestic trade routes, 14 foreign trade routes, and 7 domestic and foreign trade routes on the same ship, realizing full coverage of major domestic coastal ports and ASEAN coastal countries." Deputy Manager of Yangpu International Container Terminal Business Department Ke Wenzhe introduced that in addition to this, the port area has also actively promoted the development of freight logistics in Hainan Island in the direction of "road to waterway". Self-operated barges have completed the construction of express barge lines in Haikou, Yangpu, Sanya, and eight ports in Hainan Island. , and opened the "Yangpu - Fangcheng" point-to-point branch line.
"On the whole, we have initially formed a route layout with Yangpu as the hub, connecting the country internally and connecting ASEAN, the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean externally." Ke Wenzhe said.
New energy alternatives and intelligent equipment will help the port to transform into a green and efficient way
At the pure electric heavy-duty truck swap station at Yangpu International Container Terminal, the driver of the new-energy heavy-duty truck replaces the battery for the vehicle by scanning the code. The whole process takes less than 5 minutes; the new-energy electric tractor comes and goes, and there is no concern about exhaust gas at all; Smart gates and remote control automation speed up operation efficiency and bring good service experience to shipping companies and fleets... In recent years, Yangpu Port is not only moving towards internationalization, but also towards green and intelligent.
Building an "all-electric port" to reduce fuel pollution caused by ships and port transport vehicles is an important measure for Yangpu Port to become green.
Replacing traditional fuel tractors with new energy electric tractors is one of them.
Cai Dushu, deputy technical manager of Yangpu International Container Terminal, calculated an "environmental protection account" to the reporter: "According to the calculation of 1.4 million containers in 2022, the annual electricity consumption of new energy electric tractors is about 2.94 million yuan, and the total electricity consumption of diesel tractors is about 2.94 million yuan. The annual fuel consumption is about 7.89 million yuan. In comparison, the new energy electric tractor can save 4.95 million yuan compared to the diesel tractor. Moreover, the emissions of carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, nitrogen oxides and particulate matter can also be reduced every year. 1.44 million tons.”
With the increasing number of ships, automated, intelligent and digital operation management enables the entire port to operate in an orderly, orderly and efficient manner.
Tang Ziyong, director of the central control room of Yangpu International Container Terminal Co., Ltd., is the production scheduling manager of the terminal. In his view, with the gradual increase of the terminal operations, the production form has undergone great changes.
"For example, in the past, the operation machinery had to be operated by the hand and the machine. Since 2021, the terminal production has been transformed from the traditional production mode to the semi-automatic mode, and our yard bridge equipment has changed to the remote operation mode, and one person can operate at the same time. The three field bridge equipment has greatly improved the operation efficiency." Tang Ziyong said.
Cai Dushu also felt the convenience brought by intelligence to work: "Last year, we optimized and upgraded the gate system, added video surveillance points, and built a new remote control system for container gantry cranes. The system uses advanced sensor detection. And other intelligent technologies, so that our yard operators do not need to work on the machine, they can complete the relevant work in the remote control operation room.”
Cai Dushu has been working in the port area since the opening of the port.
In his memory, at the beginning of the trial operation of Yangpu Port, there were only 6 front-end equipments and 8 rear-end equipments.
"The port area at that time was in difficult conditions, all the equipment and facilities needed to be re-commissioned and operated, with insufficient technical personnel and inconvenient transportation. The port area began to expand in 2020, and the front and rear equipment have increased a lot, and the number of personnel in my technical department has also increased. To 20 people, the daily work also revolves around various information-based software and hardware services.”
This year, the digital foundation of Yangpu Port has been further consolidated.
It not only brings great convenience to the staff in the port area, but also brings more convenience to enterprises and vehicles entering the port.
"The efficiency of port operations has been steadily improved in recent years. In 2021, at the Yangpu International Container Terminal, the average hourly loading and unloading of a ship is 47.5 boxes, an increase of 21.5% compared to 2020." According to Ke Wenzhe, fully intelligent unmanned The operation of the entry and exit gates shortens the average gate clearance time for vehicles entering the port to 11 seconds.
The port container 7.0 management system has also entered the trial and commissioning stage, which promotes the port's "non-face-to-face" business coverage process. After the official operation of the entire system, it will promote the port's transformation to lean and efficient management.
Convenient service and preferential taxation attract more and more enterprises and ships to gather here
In 2021, the total import and export trade of Yangpu Port will be 36.69 billion yuan, an increase of more than 1,100 times compared with ten years ago.
As a free trade port with Chinese characteristics, convenient corporate services and preferential tax policies are one of the reasons for the vigorous economic development of Yangpu Port.
Customs clearance is a necessary procedure after foreign trade containers arrive at the port. In order to save costs for enterprises, Yangpu Port has made great efforts to simplify the customs clearance process.
Paperless and online processing is an important way to improve customs clearance efficiency.
In 2020, the "Single Window" paperless system will be "on duty" at Yangpu International Container Terminal, realizing the paperless whole process of cargo customs clearance, solving the problem that local ships and boxes need special personnel to "run orders".
Ke Wenzhe said that the terminal is currently cooperating with the customs to promote the customs clearance mode of "Haikou-Yangpu combined port", and promote the realization that foreign trade enterprises in the two ports only need "one declaration, one inspection and one release" throughout the whole process, which greatly simplifies the customer operation process and time, Expenses and costs, forming an efficient combination of benefits between the two ports.
"Yangpu's efficiency and speed are astonishing!" said Yuan Houan, chairman of Hainan Chuangyuan Shipping Co., Ltd. In November last year, the company's "Innovation 9" was successfully naturalized as "Yangpu Port".
Previously, Yuan Houan thought it would take half a month to complete the procedures for transferring from Wuhan to Yangpu for "Innovation 9" because there were 23 certificates involved, but it took only one and a half days to complete all the procedures. .
The "Sheng An Yang" cargo ship owned by Yangpu Weihai Shipping Co., Ltd. was imported from Panama and naturalized at Yangpu Port. From customs declaration and import, registration to re-operation, it was shortened from more than 30 working days to 6 working days.
Convenient and affordable ship registration business can help ports attract more shipping companies.
In recent years, Yangpu Port has promoted the mechanism of "general handling of ship registration" and "joint handling of overseas ship registration", established a cross-departmental joint working mechanism such as customs, transportation, and ship inspection, and formed a "special person responsible, full service, information exchange, Approval collaboration, relying on the platform, a new mechanism for approval without meeting.
The time limit for the settlement of a single matter has been reduced from 7 days to 1 day, and the parallel processing is no more than 2 days, so that the registered ships can be put into operation 15 days ahead of schedule on average, saving more than 600,000 yuan in outage losses for each ship.
"Make good use of the policy advantages of the 'China Yangpu Port' registry port", since the first international ship was registered in June 2020, there have been dozens of international ships registered in Yangpu Port.
In addition to the extremely simple and efficient approval service, Yangpu's tax policy is also an important reason for attracting a large number of ships to naturalize.
Domestically built ships registered in "China Yangpu Port" and engaged in international transportation are deemed to be exported and given export tax rebates; for encouraged industrial enterprises registered in Hainan Free Trade Port and substantively operating, 15% tax rate will be levied on enterprises Income tax... A series of real money and silver tax incentives highlight the unique advantages of the free trade port.
Fuel is one of the main expenses of shipping companies.
In Yangpu, domestic ships engaged in domestic and foreign trade on the same ship can be filled with tax-free oil, which reduces the comprehensive transportation cost of enterprises by more than 10%.
On April 8, 2021, the policy of bunkering bonded oil for domestic and foreign trade ships in the Hainan Free Trade Port was implemented in Yangpu, and the first ship bunkering business was completed.
In line with the preferential tax policies, Yangpu Port has also simplified the border inspection procedures for the refilling of bonded fuel oil, including multiple supply per ship, centralized declaration, first supply and then reporting, and system innovations such as adding on arrival, stopping and leaving, etc. The efficiency of oil filling has been continuously improved.
Last year, Yangpu completed a total of 420 bonded fuel bunkerings, totaling 217,500 tons. Both figures have doubled compared to 2020.
Today, Yangpu Port has become a business card for Yangpu Economic Development Zone to attract domestic and foreign companies. Liao Zhiwen, Deputy Director of the Investment Promotion Bureau of Yangpu Economic Development Zone, said: "Ten years ago, when we went out to attract business, many companies did not know about Hainan. Yangpu is a place. Now, we receive more companies in a week than in the past year.”