China’s first sea-rail intermodal container terminal officially opened

On the morning of June 28, the country’s first sea-rail intermodal container terminal – Beibu Gulf Port Qinzhou Automated Container Terminal was officially opened.

This is an important measure to promote the high-quality development of the new western land-sea passage and the Beibu Gulf international gateway port. The opening of the automated terminal will provide important support for the high-level co-construction of the new western land-sea channel, which will greatly enhance the core competitiveness of Beibu Gulf Port, accelerate the construction of the international gateway port and international hub port of the new western land-sea channel, and realize the Beibu Gulf Port in 2025. The development target of 10 million TEUs is of great significance.

The global first U-shaped process

The global first “U”-shaped process solution and technical solution fully solve the problems of high energy consumption, high investment cost, unbalanced equipment utilization, and few loading and unloading points in the terminal operation process plan of the terminal yard, which is efficient, economical and efficient. strong characteristics.

More loading and unloading points are more efficient

The external truck can reach the storage yard through the three-stage gate, the outer truck can go directly to the target bay in the yard. After picking and placing the box, it can exit the gate along the “U”-shaped road. The IGV can realize the operation from the sea side to the storage yard along the lane. The U-shaped layout has many loading and unloading points and is flexible in unloading. The addition of rail crane equipment can significantly improve the efficiency of the yard and has strong scalability.

Traffic diversion is safer

It realizes traffic diversion, physical isolation, and mutual non-interference between external trucks and IGVs, which not only realizes the collection and distribution operations of both landside and seaside in the same yard, but also ensures the safety of automated operations.

Economical and more “Save”

The use of low-speed rail cranes reduces equipment cost, yard construction investment, equipment energy consumption and equipment loss by more than 30%.

It is worth mentioning that the project is committed to creating a higher form of sea-rail combined transportation ecology. The rear of the terminal yard is adjacent to the railway central station. Through the development of the sea-rail combined transportation automation system, the information barriers of the railway and the port are broken, the information exchange and sharing between the shipping and railway transportation modes are realized, the integrated service capability of the combined transportation is improved, and the sea-rail combined transportation is seamless. Connect, build the country’s first sea-rail combined transport automated container terminal, and provide strong support for the construction of the new western land-sea channel.

More “Black Technology”

Technological innovation of automatic double trolley quay crane. The double trolley relay operation is more than 10% more efficient than the traditional automated single trolley quayside crane. At the same time, the double trolley quay crane has been designed to be lightweight. In the quayside loading and unloading process, the number of IGV lanes behind the rails has been reduced from 7 to 6 lanes. Therefore, the extension distance of the quay crane is shortened and the overall dead weight is reduced.

Innovation in automated rail crane technology. Globally, it is the first innovative application of an automated dual-cantilever rail crane based on a new loading and unloading process, which can take into account the automatic loading and unloading operations of manual trucks under one cantilever and automated vehicles under the other cantilever. At the same time, in order to ensure the automatic operation of external trucks, it is equipped with a complete set of safety protection systems, including truck anti-lifting protection system, box lock unreleased detection system, rear truck operation waiting prompt system, truck running red light monitoring system, etc. These safety subsystems effectively ensure the safety and controllability of the entire operation process, and achieve both efficiency and safety improvement.

Intelligent Guided Vehicle (IGV) technology innovation. Innovative application of IGV in the form of 8-wheel 4-axle chassis, the maximum wheel pressure is equivalent to that of ordinary external trucks, and there is no need to increase civil construction investment; it is equipped with the first flexible intelligent charging robot developed in China, which truly realizes automatic charging of IGV, which can be achieved within 20 minutes of charging. It can work for 4 hours and has the characteristics of “charging without leaving the field, fast charging and long battery life”. At the same time, the project innovatively designs a new vehicle positioning magnetic nail layout scheme, which greatly reduces the magnetic nail density and further reduces investment, and controls the positioning accuracy within 20 mm.

According to reports, the Beibu Gulf Port Qinzhou Automated Container Terminal Project will be implemented in two phases. Among them, the automated container berths No. 7 and 8 in the Dalanping South operation area of Qinzhou, which are opened this time, are the first phase of the project, with two 100,000-ton container berths. , The total length of the coastline is 518.5 meters, and the annual passing capacity is 1.02 million TEUs. At present, the second phase of the project is in full swing, with the construction of two 200,000-ton berths with a designed annual capacity of 1.6 million TEUs, which will be put into operation in 2023.