Opening up does not stop
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- Category: Ningbo Port
- Published: Monday, 11 November 2024 14:37
When the Malta cargo ship “Pace” loaded more than 2,000 tons of cargo from Yiwu set sail from Ningbo Zhoushan Port to the South American countries of Guyana and Suriname, Ningbo Zhoushan Port added a new direct route to South America on the global shipping map - after the opening of the new route, the shipping time was reduced from the original 100 days to about 45 days.
What does the addition of a new route mean for the port of Ningbo-Zhoushan, which has more than 300 container routes? The relevant person in charge of Ningbo Zhoushan Port said that the new route is connected to Yiwu, the world's largest small commodity market, and it is also the “sixth port area” of Ningbo Zhoushan Port; On the other hand, it is connected to the countries of the “Belt and Road” co-construction, and it is also an emerging market in South America; In the middle is the ambition of Ningbo Zhoushan Port to continue to build a strategic fulcrum of domestic circulation and a strategic hub of domestic and international dual circulation.
The flight time is getting shorter and shorter, the routes are increasing, and the open doors are opening wider and wider.
Observing the opening of Chinese ports, Ningbo-Zhoushan Port is an important window. This is not only because it sits on the country's leading iron ore terminal, Asia's largest crude oil terminal and the world's only double “10 million containers” single container terminal, and is the world's only super port with an annual cargo throughput of more than 1 billion tons, but also because the development and growth of the world's largest port is accompanied by the sonorous pace of the “hard core” strong port.
In the spring of 2020, General Secretary Xi Jinping went to Zhejiang for inspection, and the first stop was to the Chuanshan Port Area of Ningbo Zhoushan Port. Turn to the first Guanhe meteorological new! Over the past four years, Ningbo has always kept in mind Yin's entrustment, made good use of the “greatest resource” of the port and the “biggest advantage” of opening up, increased investment in infrastructure construction, built a smart port, optimized port management, improved service levels, and continued to move towards the goal of a world-class strong port.
Between throughput and throughput, the consolidation volume is stable and the “big guy”. Lian Sheng, deputy director of the Ningbo Zhoushan Port Dispatching and Command Center, pointed to the graphical schedule of the container terminal on the big screen and said: “In August, the port seized the golden period of fine weather, and the berthing efficiency of container ships in the port increased by nearly 2.1% compared with the average level of last year.
At present, the comprehensive fulfillment rate of the ship plan of Ningbo Zhoushan Port Container Terminal has remained above 95%, and all links of container trucks entering and leaving the port have been passed in “seconds”, which has greatly improved the efficiency of collection and distribution. With the establishment of the Ningbo Zhoushan Port Pilot Station, the problem of “one port and two pilots” in Ningbo Zhoushan Port has become history.
Statistics show that in the first eight months of this year, Ningbo Zhoushan Port completed a cargo throughput of 939 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 4.1%; The container throughput was 26.123 million TEUs, a year-on-year increase of 8.6%.
Technology empowerment to create a “smart multi-star” port. In the first half of this year, Ningbo Zhoushan Port announced that it has built the country's largest port 5G private network in Meishan Port Area, with the country's leading remote control automation equipment cluster, 5G intelligent container truck formation, and autonomous driving test area, which can realize all-round management of port operations such as tracking, scheduling, analysis, and prediction.
In the remote control gantry crane operation room, Li Li, a “post-95” girl, is remotely controlling the gantry crane located in the storage yard. She informed that among the 175 gantry cranes in Meishan Port Area, 115 remote-controlled gantry cranes can be used for automatic operations, and the ratio of gantry cranes to drivers has reached 3:1.
Link inside and outside to promote the “great development” of the region. In August this year, the 2024 Xinhua · Baltic International Shipping Center Development Index report was released, and Ningbo Zhoushan International Shipping Center ranked one place higher, ranking eighth in the world, achieving a historic breakthrough.
According to statistics, Ningbo Zhoushan Port has added 3 new international routes this year, and the total number of container routes has increased to 305; The number of sea-rail intermodal train lines has increased to 26, and the number of inland dry ports has increased to 37.
Looking forward to the future, Ningbo Zhoushan Port is focusing on the “four first-class”, and is accelerating towards a world-class strong port by promoting integrated reform, promoting the development of port-industry-city-trade linkage, promoting the integrated development of information of “four-port linkage”, expanding and strengthening the main body of port and shipping operation, and improving the supporting capital policies for the construction of a strong port
