Shandong Port Qingdao Port: Busy Container Throughput
(hereinafter referred to as “Qingdao Port”), a busy scene – more than 200 routes converge here, and 20,000 TEU ships come and go freely.
August 29, 2024, Shandong Port Group Qingdao Port Qianwan Container Terminal, container ships berthing in an orderly manner, container loading and unloading efficiently, port throughput a busy. This year, Qingdao Port Qianwan Container Terminal container business to improve the quality and efficiency, a steady rise, the port attraction is getting stronger and stronger.
automated track
Efficiency Improvement
As early as June 28, 2024, the Ministry of Transportation and Communications released the January-May 2024 port cargo, container throughput data, Shandong port of Qingdao Port completed 298.16 million tons of cargo throughput, an increase of 5.3% year-on-year, the container volume increased by 9.6% year-on-year. A set of figures, highlighting the development of Shandong Port Qingdao port resilience.
Recent Port News
On September 8, 2024, the Qianwan Container Terminal of Qingdao Port, Shandong Port, still has ships coming and going, and this comprehensive port area, which can berth the world’s largest container ships, maintains a busy scene. The Port of Qingdao is doing its best to advance and compete for first place in high-quality development. Nowadays, more than 200 routes are connected to the world, reaching more than 700 ports in more than 180 countries and regions around the world, and the density of routes ranks first among the ports in northern China.
Global container blockage
Phase III automation project
Automation track of the third phase of the terminal
In Qingdao Port Automated Terminal Phase III, big ships gather in the harbor, and many automated rail cranes keep moving around in the yard, placing containers on the container trucks. The production tasks of the whole terminal are assigned and dispatched by A-TOS (Intelligent Production Control System), the intelligent brain of the automated terminal. The first nationally produced fully autonomous automated terminal is another shining business card of Qingdao Port to cultivate new quality productivity, which not only represents the advanced level of intelligence but also the embodiment of green development. These automated rail cranes have another identity – hydrogen-electric coupled DC-powered rail cranes.
Port Newscast
Surpassed 1.7 billion tons
Shining card of Qingdao Port’s productivity
“The hydrogen rail cranes in the third phase of the automated terminal use DC power supply, removing the cables on the traditional rail cranes, reducing the weight of each unit by about 10 tons, and reducing energy consumption by about 4%.” Zhang Changjiang, secretary of Shandong Port Qingdao Port’s fully automated container terminal’s Mission Committee and supervisor of automatic guided vehicles in the Engineering and Technology Department, said.
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Ship ready to berth.
Zhang Changjiang said that the third phase of the automated terminal is in the process of optimization, and further improvements are being made from the single machine to the system in order to improve the productivity of the terminal. The future goal is to break through the “last kilometer” of automated terminal innovation, realize the high-level automation of shore-side loading and unloading equipment, and make the terminal more and more “smart”.
(Source: Shandong Port)
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