At Shandong Port Qingdao Port International Co.Ltd(601298) Qianwan container terminal, the “Nanxing challenge” ship, which arrived at the terminal on January 31, went to RCEP member country – South Korea after more than 10 hours of loading and unloading operation.
On January 1 this year, the regional comprehensive economic partnership agreement (RCEP) officially entered into force. From February 1, the agreement will officially enter into force for South Korea. As an international shipping hub in Northeast Asia, Shandong Port Qingdao Port International Co.Ltd(601298) is continuously serving and integrating into RCEP economic and trade channel with efficient wharf loading and unloading operations and rich route resources.
On January 31, the reporter saw on the Qianwan container terminal of Shandong Port Qingdao Port International Co.Ltd(601298) that rows of bridge cranes were orderly lined up. Under the command of Zhu Chengquan, the leader of the operation brigade, Zhou Qiang, the bridge crane driver and his colleagues quickly and accurately controlled the bridge crane. Dozens of tons of containers were lightly grabbed and then accurately placed on the ship. The whole operation process is completed at one go and clean.
“This is the birthplace of ‘vibration super efficiency’.” Zhang Jun, deputy general manager of Shandong Port Qingdao Port International Co.Ltd(601298) Qianwan container terminal company, said that the “vibration efficiency” of Shandong Port Qingdao Port International Co.Ltd(601298) is an average of 30 natural containers per hour, which is higher than that of similar automated terminals abroad.
Efficient wharf loading and unloading is an important support for serving and integrating into RCEP economic and trade channel. In addition to the traditional container terminal, Shandong Port Qingdao Port International Co.Ltd(601298) fully automated terminal serves cargo ships to and from RCEP countries with higher loading and unloading efficiency. Standing on the high platform of the fully automated wharf overlooking the port area, a bridge crane stands on the coast, the guide car passes through the port orderly, and the rail crane piles up all kinds of containers quickly and accurately. However, there was no staff in the operation area.
It was this unmanned wharf that achieved the loading and unloading efficiency of 52.1 natural containers per hour during the operation of “Martina Mediterranean” on August 24, 2021, and brushed the Shanghai New World Co.Ltd(600628) record for the seventh time.
Li Yongcui, general manager of Shandong Port Qingdao Port International Co.Ltd(601298) xinqianwan Container Terminal Co., Ltd., said that the fully automated container terminal innovated and applied cutting-edge technologies such as hydrogen powered automatic rail crane, “5g + automation”, machine vision + automation and three-dimensional visual operation and maintenance platform, which can save more than 80% of manpower and the operation efficiency is more than 50% higher than that of similar foreign terminals.
If high technology is the “diamond” serving RCEP, then the rich route resources become the “universal wheel”. Shandong Port Qingdao Port International Co.Ltd(601298) is gradually weaving a “maritime expressway” to help the economic and trade development of RCEP countries.
According to the person in charge of Shandong Port Qingdao Port International Co.Ltd(601298) , Shandong Port Qingdao Port International Co.Ltd(601298) has 87 RCEP national routes connecting Japan, South Korea, ASEAN, Australia, etc. Among them, the Southeast Asia route takes Qingdao Port International Co.Ltd(601298) as the only port of call in northern China, and it takes only 6 days to import consumer goods from Southeast Asia to Qingdao.
Qingdao hangmei International Logistics Co., Ltd. has been engaged in Japan South Korea logistics trade for ten or twenty years. Cui Xiaohong, general manager of the company, believes that Shandong Port Qingdao Port International Co.Ltd(601298) has been very mature in serving foreign trade. With efficient loading and unloading efficiency, its punctuality rate ranks first in the country.
“The dock ‘direct berthing on arrival and direct loading on arrival’ has saved a lot of costs for our logistics company and is conducive to attracting more customers.” Cui Xiaohong said.
The data show that in 2021, Shandong Port Qingdao Port International Co.Ltd(601298) operated 5.85 million TEUs of containers on RCEP national routes, with a year-on-year increase of 16%, and the cargo throughput connecting RCEP countries reached 157 million tons, with a year-on-year increase of 12%. (end)
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