China News Service, Ningbo, October 11 (Xi Jinyan) According to the latest data, in September, there were 1,926 container ships operating at Ningbo Zhoushan Port; as of October 9, the average waiting time for container ships at Ningbo Zhoushan Port has returned to about 1 day, which is at normal levels. The average daily number of operating ships and the number of berthing ships maintains a dynamic balance. Some container terminals have realized direct ship berthing, and the production situation in the port is stable and orderly.
From January to September this year, Ningbo Zhoushan Port completed container throughput of 34.666 million TEUs, a year-on-year increase of 6.8%. Walking into the Beilun Port area of Ningbo Zhoushan Port, bridge cranes are constantly rising and falling, and trucks are shuttled back and forth. Since September, the average daily operation volume of the Hong Kong container terminals has increased from 130,000 TEUs to 142,000 TEUs. 4.27 million TEUs were completed that month, an increase of 11.5% year-on-year and a month-on-month increase of 15%, which is at the highest monthly level in history. During the National Day holiday, production continued to be high and stable for seven days, with the average daily operation volume reaching 145,000 TEUs.
Behind the high productivity is a precise and efficient production organization mechanism. Focusing on core issues such as ship backlog and long waiting time at the port, Ningbo Zhoushan Port organized each container terminal to hold a special production deployment meeting, issued special production sprint goals, and guided the terminals to fully ensure the input of production resources and improve operational efficiency. Each terminal implements a daily quota drying system to supervise the opening of sufficient operating lanes to ensure operating capacity.
"We have planned the operating capabilities of each terminal in advance and broken down the goals into each day and each operation route." said the relevant person in charge of the Ningbo Zhoushan Port Dispatch Command Center. "The production progress between the terminals is 'shown' every day, and whoever is slow will make up for it." In September, the container ship berthing efficiency of Ningbo Zhoushan Port increased by 5% compared with the average of the previous eight months, and the efficiency of ship turnover and port dredging was greatly improved.
Typhoon season is a tough battle for port production organization. Ningbo Zhoushan Port proactively strengthens regular docking discussions with major shipping companies, continuously studies and evaluates the subsequent ship arrival situation, and collaboratively optimizes the arrival plan arrangement; establishes a port and shipping information sharing mechanism, promptly reports terminal operating capacity, yard load, ship berthing, etc. to ships; guides shipping companies to adjust the rhythm of ship arrivals to avoid concentrated arrivals at the port; urges shipping companies to strictly control box dumping and over-allocation behavior, coordinate to speed up the turnover efficiency of transfer boxes, reduce the amount of transfer boxes at the terminal, and avoid long-term occupation of site resources.
After the typhoons No. 9 "Bavi", No. 13 "White Dolphin" and No. 18 "Shader" this year, Ningbo Zhoushan Port has completed a total of 74 ship adjustments, including 56 re-berthing ships and 18 dual-berth ships. It has simultaneously optimized and adjusted 3 container routes to achieve overall planning and deployment of port operations resources, effectively balancing the production load of the entire port, and gradually easing the pressure on terminals waiting for berthing.
Ningbo Zhoushan Port actively connects with maritime, customs, border inspection and other port units, carries out regular coordination and linkage, and implements a series of customs clearance facilitation measures.
In terms of maritime affairs, the port state supervision "no inspection before opening" and "remote review" mechanism are operated on a regular basis, and qualified ships are exempted from boarding inspection before sailing; a full-chain collaborative organization model of "channel-anchorage-berth-operation" is established, and guarantee mechanisms such as segmented imports, forward anchoring, and "five priorities" for key material ships are implemented; the hierarchical management of waiting areas outside the port is implemented, and the double guarantee mechanism of "guaranteed supply before winds and safe boxes after winds" is innovated to improve the accuracy and timeliness of traffic control under severe weather conditions. In terms of border inspection, we will optimize and adjust the inspection measures for inbound ships, improve the pre-inspection pass rate, and promote "zero-waiting" operations and "zero-delay" inspection and release of international shipping liners. In terms of customs, telecommunications quarantine is carried out on a regular basis, and the application of remote inspection equipment is promoted, effectively shortening the quarantine time.
Through multi-department linkage and the application of technological means, the non-operating time of container ships at Ningbo Zhoushan Port was shortened to 70 minutes in September, an average reduction of 34 minutes compared with last year, and the smoothness of ship turnover continued to improve.
In the next step, Ningbo Zhoushan Port will continue to benchmark the work deployment of the Ministry of Transport, anchoring the core goal of "reducing waiting time at the port, improving efficiency, and ensuring smooth flow", and will make precise efforts from the aspects of terminal capacity building, operational efficiency improvement, and port collaborative empowerment to continue to reduce the waiting time of ships at the port, improve port turnover efficiency, and make every effort to ensure stable, orderly, efficient and smooth port production.
