Recovery Log Of Yantian Port: How Does A Giant Ship Sail Across The Ocean After Six Months Of Suffering From "Trough" To "Warehouse Explosion"?

"We are all thinking about the last kilometer, but I think we should start from the first kilometer." Lin Qingwen, the managing director of Yantian International Container Terminal Co., Ltd., told reporters including the 21st century economic report that "in the future, the development of cross-border e-commerce logistics transportation will increasingly pursue timeliness, and the requirements for Yantian Port will also be improved."

The year 2020 is a deep memory for all foreign traders.

It resumed work in March, had no goods in April, reduced ships from May to June, increased prices in July, lacked containers in August, and burst warehouses in September. Yantian port also staged a "recovery log" of countercurrent rebirth.

Strong recovery

It is located on the North Bank of South Dapeng Bay in Shenzhen City, adjacent to Shatoujiao in the West and 72 kilometers to Huizhou in the East. Yantian port, which has a history of only 31 years, is now a modern container port, emerging in the Pearl River Delta and even the national transportation industry.

Relying on its proximity to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR), the international financial, trade and shipping center, the Pearl River Delta (PRD), a huge export processing base, and wide water depth, Yantian Port has become one of the international transit deep-water ports developed by China in Liaoning, Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong provinces, and has established its important position as an important container transport port in South China.

After the normalization of epidemic prevention and control, the blowout sales orders of the global foreign trade industry have brought new economic vitality. Whether we can use the current situation to build a new industry position with the strength of the whole group will determine the future development direction of Yantian port.

In April this year, the throughput of Shenzhen Port reached the highest record of 1.46 million containers in April, which was the highest in the world.

However, in fact, in the first half of this year, the overall situation of Yantian Port was greatly impacted. The port transportation based on sea was once cut off from the trade road to the other ocean by the river and sea.

Shenzhen Yantian Port panorama. Picture vision China

According to the data of Yantian Port's 2020 semi annual report, in the first half of the year, the company's operating revenue was about 230 million yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 19.40%; affected by the epidemic situation, the company's port, road and Bridge charges, warehousing and logistics industries were affected to a certain extent, and business income decreased. Among them, due to the implementation of comprehensive traffic control in Huangshi area, the throughput of Huangshi Xingang company controlled by the company during the reporting period was 8.0254 million tons, with a year-on-year decrease of 1.2829 million tons, a decrease of 13.78%.

In fact, China's shipping industry has been hit hard this year. According to alphaliner, a shipping analysis agency, affected by the epidemic, China's container port throughput decreased by about 6 million TEUs in the first quarter of this year. The spread of new crown pneumonia in the world has impacted the global production and supply chain.

At the beginning of the epidemic, the global shipping industry was misjudged. Wang Tiantian, head of the cross-border supply chain of Alibaba international station, told reporters: "this year, most shipping companies are out of service for a period of time, which leads to insufficient shipping capacity, resulting in subsequent conflicts. By the middle of the year, China had resumed production, global demand had increased and goods had been made. But there are still challenges in getting the goods out. Take air transport as an example. Due to the lack of airliners, the transport capacity was reduced by 50% during that period. Before the epidemic, the price of a kilogram of goods transported to the United States by air was about 27 yuan, and when the epidemic situation was the highest, the price could be as high as 190 yuan per kilogram. "

In the complex situation of international trade, why can Yantian Port grow against the trend? Ensuring internal stability and actively seizing external opportunities may be the answer to Yantian port.

During the epidemic period, Yantian Port actively abides by the measures of "six stability" and "six guarantees" for domestic epidemic prevention and control, so as to ensure that enterprises return to work and production steadily. In the traditional export peak season from July to October, export enterprises have strong willingness to ship goods, and a good environment lays a solid foundation for export increase.

At the same time, Yantian Port mainly serves the routes from Europe and the United States. Under the background of the spread of the world epidemic, the rapid growth of housing economy has brought a large number of foreign trade orders. In addition to working at home, watching baby at home, taking pets at home and decorating at home, the same belongs to the scene of housing economy. According to the data, starting from July and August, with the seasonal change of commodities on Alibaba international station, the growth of outdoor goods, such as mountaineering bicycles, sports glasses and yoga mats, has increased significantly.

According to Lin Qingwen, at present, in addition to the 100 regular weekly ships, there are 51 overtime ships in Yantian port. However, since August, there have been frequent cases of shortage of containers and warehouse explosion.

With the Christmas season, new year's party and other festivals, the "blowout" season of overseas orders is coming. Recently, in response to the coming Christmas sales peak season, retail giants such as Wal Mart and Amazon have actively hoarded and purchased basic living materials and personal protective articles. Many foreign trade enterprises aim at this export market and continue to expand their export volume. It is expected that in the future, the phenomenon of shortage of containers and open positions will be difficult to change for a time.

"The great ship" is coming

On the evening of May 7, Yantian international ushered in the first voyage of "Hmm Algeciras", the largest container ship in the world.

The "Big Mac" is about 400 meters long and 61 meters wide. It is close to the height of Jingji 100 building, the second tallest building in Shenzhen. Its deck area is nearly four football fields. The Asia Europe routes serving the alliance are Qingdao, Busan, Ningbo, Shanghai, Yantian, Suez Canal, Rotterdam, Hamburg, Antwerp and London gateway port.

Yantian port is the first choice port for super large ships in South China. With good water depth and stable and efficient service, Yantian Port has attracted a large number of super large ships from all over the world in recent years. There are 20 large-scale deep-water berths in the port area, with the utilization length of 9078 meters and 85 sets of super large shore cranes. The allocation rate is far ahead in the industry, and it can dock five of the world's largest 200000 DWT ships at the same time. The storage yard covers an area of 417 hectares and can accommodate 400000 TEUs at the same time.

Yantian port used to be a small bay by the sea of Shenzhen. Now it has become a weathervane and barometer of Shenzhen's foreign trade. In only 18 and a half years, Yantian Port has achieved a total container throughput of 100 million TEUs, which is unique in the history of port development in the world.

"Yantian International's American market is the largest in Shenzhen, with a market share of about 95%. There are 31 standard ships to the United States every week, with one ship going to the United States every four to five hours. Today, one out of every four shelves accepted by the United States comes from the salt fields. " Lin Qingwen said.

In the future, Yantian port may continue to sail. Actively integrate into the global transport digital innovation network, Yantian Port will make every effort to build a world-class smart port in the future. Shenzhen will invest 14 billion yuan to build a sea port in the future.

The construction of smart terminal includes the realization of intelligent upgrading of traditional ports, such as the application of scientific and technological innovation to fleet berthing scheduling, yard intelligent tally, UAV inspection, 360 degree whole process monitoring, traffic organization and other rich scenes. The future operation efficiency and safety management of Yantian Port will be greatly improved.

Further explore the connotation of marine industry and lay out the future industrial chain around the innovation chain. Yantian port group proposed that during the "14th five year plan" period, it will strengthen the port industry, accelerate the transformation and upgrading of the logistics industry, optimize the port supporting industry, cultivate the marine industry, build a business enabling platform, and comprehensively improve the business development level.

In addition to the main industry of port and shipping, the group also actively deployed innovation chain around the industrial chain, arranged the industrial chain around the innovation chain, prospectively laid out strategic emerging industries, and cultivated and developed future industries. It includes the planning and construction of a national pelagic fishery base and an international tuna trading center relying on Dachan Bay and Shenzhen Shantou Special Cooperation Zone.

Seaports have natural coastline resources. Many famous harbor areas in the world know how to make full use of this resources. It is a famous seaside resort and a leisure base. With the opening of the "sea watching line" of Shenzhen Metro Line 8, the port area may become a marine clock in point suitable for the younger generation to live, work and travel.

Driving smart terminal

Once upon a time, in the vast sea, where the mail was sent and where it reached, we could only contact by telephone, which made it difficult for the buyer and the seller to communicate. Nowadays, with the development of foreign trade digitization, data visualization is realized to realize the freedom of goods understanding.

The world is experiencing a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation. Digitalization is not only in this industry, but also has a wide and profound impact on industry and lifestyle all over the world.

Shipping industry, as one of the most traditional and oldest industries in the world, is also quietly undergoing technological changes.

According to the data analysis of the report on the digital transformation of the global shipping market, the digital transformation of the global shipping market is expected to reach about 38.4 billion US dollars by 2027. The growth of the market can be attributed to the increasing emphasis and dependence of shipping industry on information technology and digitization.

After opening the logistics tracking app of alibaba.com, it can be found that more than 63% of orders can be visualized in the whole process from the factory to the port, from the port to the sea until customs clearance and distribution.

"The future must be 100% visual. This is a standard that we need to work with Yantian port, together with other important elements related to freight transport, to complete the digitization before redefining it. " Wang said.

At present, most of the world's international ports have adopted intelligent terminal systems, including Yantian international, to promote cargo visibility and traceability. Yantian port is also establishing a public platform with the district government, so that all logistics holders can connect to the network and connect to Alibaba.

"If one million tons of air transportation and one million tons of sea transportation are added together, in terms of the global scale, freight companies should be ranked in the top three." Zhang Kuo, general manager of Alibaba international station, said that relying on big data and high tonnage transportation, alibaba will build million ton transportation together with Yantian port in the future.

According to statistics, in 1979, the total value of China's import and export commodities was 45.5 billion yuan, the annual freight volume of domestic and foreign trade of shipping was 470.8 million tons, and the turnover of goods was 458.672 billion tons; by 2019, the total value of China's import and export trade was 31540 billion yuan, the annual freight volume of domestic and foreign trade of shipping was 7.472 billion tons, and the turnover of goods reached 10396.304 billion tons.

High end ships are known as the "Pearl" of shipbuilding industry. The development of shipping industry needs strong shipbuilding industry as support, which represents the cutting-edge technology and core competitiveness of shipbuilding industry.

Under the new pattern of "double cycle", driven by innovation development and industrial upgrading, with the integration of manufacturing technology and information technology as the starting point, we should strengthen the investment in innovation and R & D, personnel training and reserve, and cultivate a number of competitive leading enterprises, which will become a very important incision for the future foreign trade and shipbuilding industry to enhance international competitiveness and sustainable development ability.