[Explanation] Guangzhou Port Nansha Port Area Phase IV Fully Automated Terminal (hereinafter referred to as "Nansha Phase IV Fully Automated Terminal") was officially put into operation on July 28.

The terminal is the world's first fully automated terminal for multimodal transport of rivers, seas and railways, and has created a number of "world's best" in terms of technology.

  On the same day, standing at the front of the Nansha Phase IV fully automated terminal, the reporter saw that the quay crane accurately grabbed the container on the ship according to the instructions automatically issued by the information system, and automatically placed it on the Beidou Navigation unmanned intelligent guided vehicle, and the guided vehicle passed through. Intelligent algorithm, automatically planning the path, transporting the container to the destination location, automatic alignment of the rail crane, automatically grabbing the container and placing it at the designated location, the entire production operation process, the operation area is "empty".

  [Concurrent] Huang Binglin, Deputy Chief Engineer of Guangzhou Port Nansha Port Area Phase IV Fully Automated Terminal Management Company

  Our information system is the brain of a terminal production organization. The whole process is automated and unmanned. Our current efficiency has surpassed that of traditional manual container terminals. We can do more than 20 Moves in one hour. (Hanging), about a level of about 30 natural boxes.

  [Explanation] According to reports, the "super brain" that directs the operation of the Nansha Phase IV fully automated terminal is the first of its kind in the world. It has completely independent intellectual property rights and can optimally plan various operation scenarios such as container loading and unloading, stockpiling, transshipment, entry and exit gates, etc. path.

  [Concurrent] Liu Ming, Director of Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)

  We have integrated the new generation of IoT perception technology, unmanned driving technology and this big data analysis, cloud computing, artificial intelligence and some related applications of this 5G, and successfully created the world's first (Beidou Navigation Unmanned Driving Intelligence) A related technology of guided vehicle), then (Beidou Navigation Unmanned Intelligent Guided Vehicle) uses a multi-sensor fusion positioning technology of Beidou, lidar and vision fusion. First of all, it does not need magnetic nails like traditional ground-dependent magnetic nails. The positioning of technology is all based on the positioning of the natural environment, which can greatly reduce the construction cost of the wharf and is also conducive to the overall promotion in the next step.

  [Explanation] The Nansha Phase IV fully automated terminal is located at the mouth of the Pearl River, in the Nansha port area that connects the inland river network of the Pearl River system and the deep-water seaport.

Nansha Phase IV fully automated terminal takes advantage of the natural geographical advantage of Nansha port area's water network connecting the river to the sea, and relies on the Nansha port-dredging railway to integrate the functions of river-sea combined transport and sea-rail combined transport to build the world's first fully automated terminal for river-sea-rail multimodal transport.

  [Concurrent] Huang Bo, General Manager of Guangzhou Port Group Co., Ltd.

  The design capacity of Nansha Phase 4 is 4.9 million TEUs. After the Nansha Phase 4 is fully put into operation, 20 professional container berths with a capacity of more than 100,000 tons will be formed in the Nansha Port Area, and the port's throughput capacity will exceed 20 million TEUs. , in this case, Nansha can be in the forefront in terms of operation capacity of a single port area in the world.

  [Explanation] According to reports, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area currently has world-class hub ports such as Hong Kong Port, Shenzhen Port and Guangzhou Port, as well as regional ports such as Foshan Port, Zhaoqing Port, and Zhongshan Port.

Liu Ming, director of robotics and autonomous systems at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), said that in the context of favorable policies in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, there is a lot of room for cooperation between Hong Kong and Guangzhou ports in the Greater Bay Area.

  [Concurrent] Liu Ming, Director of Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)

  Technology empowerment itself can reduce the overall operating cost of the port, so we are here to explore a field of value innovation. The intelligent development of shipping in the (Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao) Greater Bay Area has some unique advantages.

For example, Shenzhen Port and Guangzhou Port itself are ranked among the top 5 in the world in terms of throughput. Therefore, a port cluster in the Greater Bay Area (Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao) with Guangzhou Port, Shenzhen Port and Zhuhai Port as the core will further promote regional ports. A new advantage in competition has promoted the coordinated development of the industrial clusters of the port clusters and then the urban clusters of the city clusters, which can also help us join hands with (Guangdong), Hong Kong and Macao to build a world-class port cluster.

  (Reported by Cai Minjie, Wei Jeff, Liu Shiying, Guangdong)

Responsible editor: [Liu Xingchen]