More international ports are emerging in China
In the evening, Ningbo Zhoushan Port was brightly lit, the giant ship docked on the shore, whistled, and the container unloading operation was in progress.
On the shore, the smart trucks are loaded with containers of various colors and shuttle back and forth under the huge bridge crane.
Recently, many ports across the country have released their report cards for 2022: the annual cargo throughput of Ningbo Zhoushan Port ranks first in the world for 14 consecutive years, the container throughput of Shanghai Yangshan Port ranks first in the world for 13 consecutive years, and the container throughput of Shenzhen Port ranks first in the world for 10 consecutive years Ranking the top 4 in the world, the container volume of Qingdao Port ranks the 5th in the world...
Behind the increase in throughput is the accelerated pace of transformation and development of various ports.
As a distribution center for the import and export of foreign trade goods, a new type of international port that is automated, intelligent and green is helping foreign trade move forward steadily.
Multiple ports achieved a "good start"
——Shanghai Yangshan Port, Ningbo Zhoushan Port, Shenzhen Port, and Qingdao Port rank among the top five in the world in terms of container throughput, continuing their good performance in 2022
On the morning of January 10, two 200,000-ton container ships "Mediterranean Zoe" and "Meili Maersk" slowly berthed with the assistance of tugboats in front of the 3,740-meter shoreline of the Chuanshan Port Area of Ningbo Zhoushan Port.
In the future, they will jointly complete the loading and unloading operations of more than 10,000 containers.
On the same day, there were 10 ships operating at the 11 berths of the Chuanshan Port Container Terminal at the same time, filling the entire terminal shoreline.
Since the beginning of this year, the average daily container throughput of the container terminal in Chuanshan Port has reached 33,000 TEUs.
In recent years, the annual container throughput of Ningbo Zhoushan Port has achieved continuous growth.
In 2022, the container throughput of Ningbo Zhoushan Port will exceed 33.35 million TEUs, a year-on-year increase of 7.31%, ranking third in the world.
Since 2018, the annual container throughput of Ningbo Zhoushan Port has been ranked second in the country and third in the world; at the same time, the annual cargo throughput has ranked first in the world for 14 consecutive years.
Shanghai Yangshan Port, more than 300 kilometers to the north, is also busy.
During the two festivals, the port area concentrated its forces to fight day and night, loading and unloading many ships.
Yangshan Port is an important part of Shanghai International Shipping Center, contributing more than 50% of the container throughput of the entire Shanghai Port.
In 2022, Shanghai Port's container throughput will exceed the 47.3 million TEU mark, ranking first in the world for 13 consecutive years.
Previously, SIPG’s day and night container throughput on September 8 and 11, 2022 broke through the 160,000 and 170,000 TEU marks in a row, setting a new record for day and night container throughput of 170,173 TEUs, and successively refreshed the single-work shift container throughput Volume, single-ship container operation volume, single-dock day and night container throughput and many other records.
Entering the new year, many ports across the country achieved a "good start", continuing the outstanding achievements in 2022——
Dongying Port, Shandong Port, has completed a cargo throughput of 1.7 million tons since the beginning of the year, showing steady growth.
During the Spring Festival, all terminal companies will operate normally to ensure smooth cargo transportation.
In 2022, Dongying Port will complete a cargo throughput of 63.24 million tons, completing more than 60 million tons for three consecutive years and continuing to grow.
In 2022, the container throughput of Qingdao Port will rank fifth in the world, and the container throughput of Rizhao Port and Yantai Port will also achieve historic leaps of 500 million tons and 400 million tons respectively.
According to data from the Shenzhen Municipal Bureau of Transportation, as of December 31, 2022, the cumulative container throughput of Shenzhen Port reached 30.0356 million TEUs, a year-on-year increase of 4.39%, breaking through the 30 million TEUs mark for the first time, a record high.
This is the fourth port in the world whose annual container throughput has exceeded 30 million TEUs after Shanghai, Singapore, and Ningbo Zhoushan Port, marking that Shenzhen Port has ranked among the top four in the world for 10 consecutive years in terms of container throughput.
On December 28, 2022, the Water Transport Research Institute of the Ministry of Transport and the China Economic Information Service jointly released the "World-Class Port Comprehensive Evaluation Report (2022)", showing that Chinese ports rely on leading throughput scales and intensive and efficient shoreline utilization levels. The advantages of radiating global route network and other advantages occupy more seats in the world's first-class ports.
Among them, Shanghai Port is at the leading level of world-class ports, and Ningbo-Zhoushan Port, Shenzhen Port, Qingdao Port and Hong Kong Port are at the forefront of world-class ports.
Fei Weijun, director of the Water Transport Science Research Institute of the Ministry of Transport, said that due to the impact of the new crown epidemic, international container hub ports have experienced varying degrees of congestion, and the port's status as a global logistics hub has become more prominent.
In contrast, Chinese ports have always maintained efficient operation, demonstrated strong service resilience, and made important contributions to the smooth and stable international logistics supply chain.
Technology helps port transformation and upgrading
——Automation, intelligence, and greening have become new trends in port construction, promoting port production to reduce costs, increase efficiency, and improve quality
Shanghai Yangshan Deep-Water Port Phase IV automated terminal is lined with giant red and white bridge cranes, 26 bridge cranes and 121 track cranes operate freely, and 139 unmanned automatic guided vehicles shuttle back and forth... The huge terminal is almost "Empty."
Yangshan Phase IV is one of the world's largest and most comprehensive and intelligent terminals.
Compared with traditional terminals, the efficiency of automated terminals has increased by 30%.
In the past five years since the opening of the port, the scale of Yangshan's "unmanned terminal" has continued to expand, the operating capacity has been significantly improved, and the day and night container throughput has exceeded 26,000 TEUs.
The smart, efficient, green and low-carbon Yangshan Port is helping Shanghai International Shipping Center play a more important role in the world.
While the volume of containers has repeatedly reached new heights, China's ports have continued to take new steps in terms of intelligence and greening, deeply integrating technology and port construction, and promoting port production to reduce costs, increase efficiency, and improve quality.
Walking into the Meishan Port Area of Ningbo Zhoushan Port, the busy wharf production scene unfolds in front of you.
Under the unified dispatch of the "Port Smart Brain", all production and operation links are closely linked, and the operations of remote-controlled bridge cranes, remote-controlled gantry cranes, and smart trucks are connected in an orderly manner.
"In the past, I had to sit on a gantry crane more than 20 meters high, use my eyesight and feel to accurately lift the container onto the truck; now I can control the crane as long as I 'hide' indoors a few kilometers away, saying goodbye to the wind and the sun environment.” Lu Yongjie has worked in the Meishan Port area for 9 years, and he is one of the beneficiaries of port intelligence.
With the gradual remote and intelligent operation of large-scale equipment, the online application of various cutting-edge technologies and the big data analysis of personnel behavior, the current automation rate of Ningbo Zhoushan Port Meishan Port has exceeded 50%, and the operation efficiency of the entire operation chain has been improved. more than 15%.
Li Xue, vice president of Tencent Intelligent Transportation, introduced to our reporter: "In the past, a series of problems such as deformation and damage had to be inspected when each container entered and exited the terminal. However, the container is large in size and has many blind spots, and the container inspection system on the market uses ordinary imaging. Technology is difficult to detect subtle deformations, requiring a lot of manual verification, resulting in long queues at the gate, which restricts the throughput of the terminal." Tencent and Sinotrans Co., Ltd. cooperated to create a "smart gate". High-precision identification technology can automatically identify the condition of the cabinet all-weather, and the accuracy of damage identification exceeds 95%.
The gate-passing speed is reduced from 180 seconds to less than 60 seconds, which saves manpower and reduces missed inspections.
In addition to automation and intelligence, green and low-carbon has also become the focus of port construction in recent years.
Ship emission is one of the areas to prevent and control air pollution. The use of shore power when ships are in port can effectively reduce air pollutants such as sulfur oxides, nitrogen oxides, and particulate matter, and is the most effective way to reduce emissions.
According to the relevant person in charge of Ningbo Zhoushan Port Group, on November 20, 2021, the high-voltage shore power system independently invested and built by the group will be connected to the group's own container ships for the first time.
Up to now, the group has built 25 sets of high-voltage shore power and 243 sets of low-voltage shore power, and the coverage rate of shore power for five types of professional coastal terminals has reached more than 80%. cover.
At the same time, the Group vigorously promotes the use of shore power. The self-owned port of Ningbo Zhoushan Port uses shore power for all ships. The annual electricity consumption of tugboats is nearly 1.4 million kWh, reducing carbon emissions by more than 900 tons.
Helping "Made in China" go overseas
——The port customs launched measures to help enterprises to ensure the transportation of materials supplied to Hong Kong and provide strong support for stabilizing foreign trade
Since last year, the increase in external demand has provided support for the stability of China's foreign trade.
According to data from the General Administration of Customs, China's total import and export of goods trade will be 42.07 trillion yuan in 2022, a year-on-year increase of 7.7%.
However, affected by multiple factors, shipping prices fluctuate frequently throughout the year, and the efficiency of shipping is reduced. Chinese foreign trade companies are facing great challenges in exporting.
In order to help companies bail out, ports and customs in many places have launched a series of measures to reduce costs and increase efficiency, so as to smooth maritime logistics.
At the "sea-rail combined transport" service window of the customs hall of Yiwu Railway Port, Zhejiang, Zhang Fan, the person in charge of the Yiwu sea-rail combined transport platform of Ningbo Port International Logistics Co., Ltd., handled it online in less than 10 minutes through the "Sixth Port Area Networking Platform". One-ticket sea-rail joint transfer business.
Through this platform, the customs will automatically match and release the goods departing from Yiwu Port and exporting through Ningbo Zhoushan Port, and transmit the release information of the goods to the production operation system of Ningbo Zhoushan Port in real time, which is convenient for enterprises to handle port and port affairs such as pre-release and pre-loading. You can enjoy the convenience of "transferring through customs as if transiting through ports" for export goods.
In Shenzhen, the Customs, in conjunction with transportation, maritime and other relevant departments, guides terminal companies and shipping companies to strengthen capacity organization, promote the "cloud storage, cloud pick-up" model, and improve the efficiency of container turnover.
In 2022, Shenzhen Port will open 4 additional international liner routes, bringing the cumulative number of international liner routes to 295.
At present, the Dongying Port 100,000-ton container project with an investment of 1 billion yuan has started, and the 100,000-ton general-purpose berth project with an investment of 1.2 billion yuan has been completed.
After the completion of the project, the sea-rail combined transport channel will be opened, and the west-south coal transportation and the west-south transportation of imported non-metallic ore and metal ore will be completed through the Huangda Railway, Deda Railway, and Dongying Port Shugang Railway, which will greatly increase the throughput of the port.
Chinese new energy vehicles have become very popular overseas in recent years.
The strong export demand is testing the supporting capacity of the logistics supply chain.
Relying on complete supporting facilities and good value-added services, Meixi Ro-Ro Terminal in Meishan Port Area of Ningbo Zhoushan Port has actively established cooperative relations with domestic new energy vehicle OEMs and foreign trade shipping companies.
"In 2022, the terminal will complete a total of 39 foreign trade ro-ro ship operations, and the foreign trade operation volume will exceed 80,000, a substantial increase year-on-year." Said Han Dong, deputy general manager of Ningbo Meidong Container Terminal Co., Ltd.
The port is wide and the water is deep, and ships come and go. Many large oriental ports serve as key fulcrums for global trade, helping foreign trade take off.
Many foreign trade business owners said that since the beginning of this year, foreign trade exports have been strong, strong overseas demand has brought strong support to the shipping market, and the volume of freight forwarding has shown a significant increase.
Xu Peiyu