Beibu Gulf Port's container throughput in the first quarter increased by 14.7% year-on-year
From January to March, Beibu Gulf Port (Hong Kong) completed 68.77 million tons of cargo throughput, up 5.5% year-on-year, including 1.612 million TEUs of containers, up 14.7% year-on-year, achieving the first quarter 'open door'.
According to the Ministry of Transport's January-February 2023 national port cargo and container throughput data released on March 31, Beibu Gulf port cargo throughput and container throughput ranked 9th and 8th in the country's major coastal ports respectively, maintaining a steady growth trend.
Market development without stopping
In the first quarter of this year, Beibu Gulf Port continued to closely liaise with partners and customers, make early judgments on market and policy trends, formulate strategies and response plans, strengthen the docking with key cargo enterprises in the region, and develop 'one enterprise one policy' and 'one cargo one policy' logistics solutions for key enterprises. Solutions.
Through in-depth customer visits, maintain old customers and develop new customers to increase the volume and create efficiency. By taking full advantage of the berth, yard and train capacity of Fangcheng Port, the first shipload of lithium pyroxene was successfully obtained, and the metal ore market was continuously enlivened, adding new varieties of metal ore cargoes to Beibu Gulf Port.
In the first quarter, limestone and bauxite throughput made new breakthroughs, with year-on-year growth of 170% and 235%; improved operational efficiency and protection capacity, with year-on-year growth of 87% for CNPC crude oil; actively participated in the competition in the electric coal market, with year-on-year growth of 24% for coal; and ranked first in domestic imports of copper concentrate for the fourth consecutive year.
High-speed efficiency improvement
Focusing on improving quality and increasing efficiency, North Port actively plays the advantages of production resources in each port area, coordinates the organization of port production operations, scientifically arranges the berthing plan of incoming vessels, refines the vessel operation plan, and strengthens the interface of each production link on site to ensure smooth operation.
We also deepen the production potential, refine the production service index, optimize the production assessment scheme, and promote the continuous improvement of container operation capacity and service level.
In the first quarter, the container ship loading and unloading efficiency of Beibu Gulf Port increased by 14% year-on-year. Continuously promote the normalization of container ship 'set berthing hot connection' with the maritime and pilotage departments, and significantly compress the time of ship berthing and departure connection; jointly promote the normalization of ship quarantine with portable remote flow adjustment machine with the Customs, and significantly improve the quarantine efficiency, and vigorously promote the ship night quarantine, and the container ship waiting time for berthing dropped by 44% year-on-year. down 44%.
Highly Empowered Capacity Building
In 2023, Beibu Gulf Port has 17 coastal projects included in Guangxi to promote the new land and sea channel in the west and the integration of the north, Qin and defense in 2023, with an annual estimated investment task of 4.085 billion yuan. In the first quarter, the above projects have completed the estimated investment of 885 million yuan, the completion rate of 127%, exceeding the task target.
Major projects in the construction of multi-point flowering, Qinzhou Port Dalanping South 9 10 berths, Dalanping operation area 1 to 3 berths a project has entered the stage of acceptance. Beihai Tieshan Port Langan operation area into the port branch channel, Fangcheng Port Chisha 1, 2 berths project to strive to be completed by the end of the year.
Port equipment this year also added a number of 'new recruits', Qinzhou Port Dalanping South Operations Area 12, 13 berths 10 door machine to the port, 'Beibu Gulf towing 11' officially into the list, significantly enhance the port's operational capacity.
The second phase of Qinzhou automated container terminal project shore bridge, rail crane, intelligent guided transport vehicle (IGV) three core equipment all in place, fully into the equipment joint commissioning stage.
The waves are calmly crossed, and the wind and rain go forward. The first quarter 'open door' into a full year 'full color', the port of Beibu Gulf in the high-quality development track will continue to 'wild ride'.