The first unmanned gate at Zhuhai foreign trade port officially opened smart card for 15 seconds to clear customs.
Zhuhai Port will be built into a bridgehead connecting Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao in the southwest with Southeast Asia and South Asia, and become an international hub port in South China. The picture shows that Hongwan National Code officially opened the unmanned intelligent gate on May 9. Source: Nanfang Daily
When a truck pulls into the gate of Hongwan International Container Terminal, the driver takes out his smart card from the window and swipes it. When the gate is closed, it will automatically open and release. The whole process only takes about 15 seconds. The reporter learned from Zhuhai Port Group that the intelligent gate of Hongwan National Code of Zhuhai Port Group was officially opened a few days ago, becoming the first unmanned gate at Zhuhai’s foreign trade port.
At present, Zhuhai Port Group has an annual cargo throughput of 125 million tons and a container throughput of over 2.36 million TEUs, making it the largest port and shipping enterprise in the west of Zhuhai. According to the plan, Zhuhai Port will be built into a bridgehead connecting Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao in the southwest with Southeast Asia and South Asia, and become an international hub port in South China, moving towards the goal of becoming one of the top 50 ports in the world.
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The waiting time for customs clearance vehicles is shortened by 80%
"The traditional electronic gate uses manual dispatching to arrange vehicles to enter the gate, which is inefficient. With the rapid growth of terminal business, when the traffic of vehicles entering the gate increases, the gate is blocked from time to time." Lan Jianwen, chairman of Zhuhai International Container Terminal (Hongwan) Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Zhuhai Port Group, introduced that the launch of Hongwan Guomao Intelligent Gate Project is based on this background and has become an attempt for enterprises to actively promote business model innovation and accelerate transformation and upgrading by relying on information technology.
The project is implemented by the popular two-dimensional code method. By developing the mobile phone code scanning reservation parking system and linking with the dock data platform, the automatic card printing function of vehicles is realized, and finally the purpose of unattended parking is realized. After the intelligent gate is put into use, the waiting time for customs clearance vehicles is only about 15 seconds, which is 80% shorter than before.
With the support and assistance of joint inspection units such as customs, border inspection and maritime affairs, the project integrates the relevant data information of upstream and downstream enterprises of port logistics, builds a data platform, and realizes customs data sharing and interoperability through "smart card port system" and "port clearance system phase II". "The official opening of the intelligent gate marks the further improvement of the port service level of Zhuhai Port Group, and the port shipping sector of the Group continues to deepen in terms of intelligence and green development." Ou Huisheng, Party Secretary and Chairman of Zhuhai Port Holding Group Co., Ltd. said.
From the construction of Jiuzhou Port in 1980s to the construction of Gaolan Deepwater Port in 1990s, and then to the establishment of Zhuhai Port Group in 2008, in recent years, Zhuhai Port Group, with Gaolan Port as the main port, has developed rapidly and its container throughput has increased rapidly, attracting more and more attention from the industry and the rest of the world.
At the World Port Conference, which opened in Guangzhou on May 8th, Zhuhai Port Group, as the only port enterprise in Zhuhai, participated for the first time. "I hope that through this international exchange platform, we can strengthen exchanges with many ports and shipping companies at home and abroad, understand the dynamic market information, and seek new opportunities for foreign cooperation and development to further enhance the throughput and port status of Zhuhai Port." Wu Hao, deputy general manager of Zhuhai Port Group Port and Shipping Management Co., Ltd. introduced.
At present, Zhuhai Port Group has become the largest shipping enterprise in western Zhuhai with an annual cargo throughput of 125 million tons and container throughput exceeding 2.36 million TEUs. As the main port of Zhuhai Port, in 2018, Gaolan Port Terminal achieved a cargo throughput of 128 million tons, including a container throughput of 1.85 million TEUs.
At present, the second phase of Gaolan Port’s wharf with an annual throughput of 1.8 million TEUs is under construction. The whole project includes one 100,000-ton container berth and two 50,000-ton container berths. One 40,000-ton, two 30,000-ton and one 10,000-ton general cargo berth. All seven berths are expected to be completed within this year and put into use early next year.
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In 2021, the cargo throughput will exceed 200 million tons.
In April this year, Shanghai International Shipping Research Center released the Global Port Development Report (2018), in which Zhuhai Port ranked seventh in the world and third among the six shortlisted ports in China.
According to the research of the center, the global economy recovered moderately in 2018, global trade slowed down, and the growth rate of global container port production remained stable as a whole. Among them, the ranking of the most potential container ports in the world is more focused on the ports in various regions of the world, and some ports have great potential from the perspective of development, although they are not necessarily in the forefront in total scale.
The center takes Lloyd’s top 100 container ports in the world in 2017 as candidates, and makes statistical analysis and calculation from the three indicators of "source attraction", "investment attraction" and "natural conditions of ports" and the seven sub-indicators it contains, and finally obtains the above ranking.
Prior to this, according to Lloyd’s ranking of the top 100 container ports in the world in 2017, Zhuhai Port ranked 73 rd in the world, ranked second in the world with an increase of 37.3%, and ranked first among the 24 major coastal ports in China. This is also the third time that the growth rate of Zhuhai Port ranks first in the country after 2014 and 2016.
In the eyes of the industry, the rapid development momentum of Zhuhai Port is inseparable from the internationalization strategy, Xijiang strategy, logistics center strategy and green wisdom strategy that the group has implemented in depth.
Under the internationalization strategy, Zhuhai Port Group provided services for a number of "Belt and Road" projects in the past year, involving 9 ships, with a total cargo throughput of 150,000 tons. The things transported are as small as rice, as large as submarine immersed pipes and marine engineering equipment; Wherever it goes, it reaches Kuwait and Brunei as far as Brazil, Argentina, C? te d ‘Ivoire and Tanzania.
Up to now, Zhuhai Port has established sea routes with more than 30 countries in six continents, with 64 container routes (17 foreign trade routes and 47 domestic trade routes) and 21 multimodal transport routes. "In the future, we will strive to establish more contacts with national ports along the" Belt and Road "to enhance the port status and external influence of Zhuhai Port." Wu Hao said.
At the same time, a land-sea logistics channel with Zhuhai’s home port as the core is being stepped up. It is reported that Zhuhai Port Group has made great efforts to cultivate the Xijiang container market and gather the goods in the hinterland of the Pearl River-Xijiang Economic Belt. In 2018, the cargo throughput transferred to Xijiang River Basin through Zhuhai Port totaled 41,587,200 tons, up 3.72% year-on-year, and the container throughput transferred to Xijiang River Basin through Zhuhai Port totaled 563,100 TEU, up 16.97% year-on-year.
Port infrastructure construction is also accelerating. In order to break through the bottleneck that the low grade of the main channel restricts the port from exerting the throughput capacity of large terminals and increasing the transportation demand of enterprises, so that large ships can smoothly enter and leave Gaolan Port with full cargo, Zhuhai Port Group started construction of the 150,000-ton waterway in Gaolan Port Area at the end of 2013. At the beginning of this year, the project was successfully completed and accepted, which indicates that Zhuhai Port officially owns the most heavyweight main waterway in the Pearl River Delta, and also lays a solid foundation for building a 200,000-ton waterway in the future.
Ou Huisheng said that the container throughput of the Group is expected to exceed 3 million TEUs in 2019. According to a recent plan of Zhuhai Port, it will achieve a cargo throughput of over 200 million tons and a container throughput of over 5 million TEUs in 2021, and push Zhuhai Port into the top 50 ports in the world.