Automated ports and ships relying on new infrastructure are the main directions for future port construction
port construction
A port is a transportation hub with water and land combined transportation equipment and conditions for ships to enter, exit, and berth safely. It is a gathering point and hub of water and land transportation, a distribution center for industrial and agricultural products and foreign trade import and export materials, and a place for ships to berth, load and unload goods, get on and off passengers, and supplement supplies. Since the port is a natural interface connecting the inland hinterland and ocean transportation (international air transportation), people also regard the port as a special node of international logistics.
The construction of China’s coastal ports focuses on transportation systems such as coal, containers, imported iron ore, grain, land-island ro-ro, and deep-water sea passages, especially strengthening the construction of container transportation systems. The Chinese government has concentrated its efforts to build a number of deep-water container terminals in Dalian, Tianjin, Qingdao, Shanghai, Ningbo, Xiamen, Shenzhen, and other ports, laying the foundation for the formation of China’s container hub ports; the construction of the coal transportation system has also been further strengthened, and a new one has been built. Coal loading and unloading dock. At the same time, a number of imported crude oil and iron ore terminals were rebuilt and expanded.
The coastal port has more than 2,500 intermediate-level and above berths, including more than 650 10,000-ton berths; the annual container throughput is 61.5 million TEUs, ranking first in the world. The total annual throughput of some large ports exceeds 100 million tons. Eight ports Shanghai Port, Shenzhen Port, Qingdao Port, Tianjin Port, Guangzhou Port, Xiamen Port, Ningbo Port, and Dalian Port have entered the top 50 container ports in the world.
At present, there is a regional international shipping center around Bohai Bay with Tianjin as the center and Liaoning and Shandong as the two wings, a regional international shipping center on the southeast coast with Xiamen as the center, and a regional international shipping center on the southwest coast with Beibu Gulf Port as the center. The two domestic transshipment centers are Zhoushan River-Sea Combined Transportation Center and Ningbo-Zhoushan Coastal Transshipment Center. The Yangtze River Basin Shipping Center is the Yangtze River Basin Shipping Center with Wuhan as the center and Chongqing as the sub-center.
In the first half of this year, the cargo throughput of foreign trade alone was as high as 2,357.2 million tons, and the container throughput was as high as 138.18 million TEUs. The operation mode of ports and ships has been developed for thousands of years and has become highly mechanized, automated, and platform-based. and informatization.
Platformization is the basic attribute of port service functions, the carrier for gathering resources for port development, and the foothold and starting point for port operators and government work. Symbol; informatization is the core means of port competition and development, and is the key and fundamental embodiment of port production automation, management intelligence, service intelligence, and development modernization.
The evolution and development of port productivity have changed from natural conditions-manpower-semi-mechanization-full-mechanization to full-automation-informatization-intelligence-intelligence-resource integration-management intelligence-production automation-operation intelligence-service intelligence… …All these transformations would be impossible without informatization, which is the breakthrough and core of building a world-class port. Relying on new infrastructure and new technology potential, automated ports and ships actively seize the opportunity of digital transformation and regard data as the core resource of the enterprise.
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