Shanghai World's Largest Automated Terminal, Shanghai Yangshan Port Phase 4 Opens Trial Operation on December 10

        December 10, the world's largest terminal Shanghai Yangshan Port opened trial operation. It is reported that Yangshan Port Phase IV total area of 223 square meters, most of the pier forefront of the natural depth of 11 to 15 meters. At present, the commissioning has been completed. The first batch of 10 bridge cranes, 40 rail cranes and 50 AGVs will be put into trial production in Hong Kong.

This three-year construction project, with its seven large deepwater berths, will be the largest automated container terminal in the world.

        After the completion of the fourth phase of Yangshan, it will boost the annual container throughput of Shanghai Port exceeding 40 million TEUs, providing strong support for Shanghai Port as the No.1 container port in the world for many years in a row, and playing a greater role in the construction of Shanghai International Shipping Center effect.

After the completion of Shanghai Port throughput is the sum of the United States

        It is reported that the trial run Yangshan four built a total of seven container berths, the container terminal shoreline total length of 2350 meters, the design year through the initial capacity of 4 million TEUs, long-term 6.3 million TEUs, will boost Shanghai Port container throughput exceeded 40 million TEUs. "40 million TEUs" What is the concept? This figure exceeds the total throughput of the nine major U.S. ports and is one-tenth of the annual global port throughput.

        According to the system deployment of the State Council, Shanghai will basically build an international shipping center by 2020. Yangshan Deepwater Port has always been the backbone of Shanghai's construction of an international shipping center since its opening.

        In 2005, the first phase of Yangshan was completed and opened to operate. Shanghai Port finally achieved "cross-sea entry." In the first year of establishing the port, Yangshan Port handed over 3.236 million TEUs of transcripts. At this time, the throughput of the entire Shanghai Port was less than 20 million TEUs.

        In 2006, Yangshan Phase II opened its operations. In 2008, the second phase of Yangshan Phase III Project was completed and put into operation. As a result, the entire Yangshan Deepwater Port owns 16 deep-water container berths and a total of 5.6 km of container port deep-water terminal and 8-km container yard are evacuated to release annual container throughput Volume of more than 15 million TEUs production capacity.

The growth of Yangshan Port has led to the continuous increase of Shanghai container throughput.

        In 2010, Shanghai container throughput reached 31.74 million TEUs, surpassing Singapore's 29.94 million TEUs and making it the first port in the world for the first time. By 2016, with a capacity of 37.13 million TEUs, Shanghai Port has secured the top spot in the world for the seventh year in a row, of which container throughput of Yangshan Port accounts for more than 40% of Shanghai Port.

While the total throughput reached a record high in recent years, the proportion of Shanghai-Hong Kong's international transit and water-and-water transit continued to grow, and the status of an international hub port was gradually established. According to the data from the port research center of Shanghai International Shipping Research Center, the container throughput of international routes accounts for about 73% of the total container throughput of Shanghai Ports. According to the routes, the routes mainly focus on the United States, Europe, Japan, South Korea and ASEAN countries.

        In January-September 2017, the container trade volume in Shanghai port also maintained a good synchronous growth. The growth rate of foreign trade containers increased from 0.1% in 2016 to 8.2% in 2017; domestic container throughput grew by 15.8% Nearly 17 percentage points higher than the trough in 2015. The water-to-water ratio also increased from 42.8% in 2012 to 46.5% in 2016. These achievements are inseparable from Yang Shan Hong Kong's supportive role.

        Fully automated terminal Yangshan Terminal 4 charm is not just these increments, but also its "fully automated."

       Last week, a reporter from Surging News (www.thepaper.cn) visited the Yangshan Port on the spot. The field staff told reporters: "There will be no more people in the fourth phase of the project. It will be fully automated. Not only will the crane not require people to drive Can be operated in the background; even manually-driven container trucks are no longer needed and are loaded directly by automatic AGVs. "The crew joked it was going to be a" Devil's Wharf. "