In Tianjin Binhai New Area, in the distance, a shore bridge in front of the vast Bohai Bay is towering into the clouds, with berths scattered, and ships from all over the world are transported, loading and unloading day and night. This is Tianjin Port.

In recent years, Tianjin Port Group has loyally implemented General Secretary Xi Jinping’s earnest instructions during his inspection of Tianjin Port, and with the mission of serving the national strategy, it has strived to build an important strategic fulcrum for the northern region of my country to connect the domestic and international dual circulation. Its annual container throughput and cargo throughput are firmly ranked among the top ten ports in the world.

The world's first "smart zero-carbon" terminal and the country's first port autonomous driving demonstration zone have been built one after another, forming a number of leading and exemplary "global firsts"; the world's first port fans have emerged from the ground, with an annual green power generation capacity of 340 million kilowatt-hours; based in Tianjin, serving Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, radiating the "Three Norths", facing Northeast Asia, facing the Pacific Ocean, and jointly building the "Belt and Road", with an annual container throughput exceeding 23 million TEUs... From January to May this year, Tianjin Port Group completed a cargo throughput of 207 million tons, of which the container throughput reached 9.9305 million TEUs, an increase of 3.67% year-on-year; it has 37 sea-rail intermodal trains, and completed 638,000 TEUs of sea-rail intermodal transport; the total number of container routes is 147, and the routes reach more than 500 ports in 180 countries and regions around the world.

Tianjin Port, which is determined to be a vibrant development momentum, is strideing forward on the new journey of striving to build a world-class smart port and green port, contributing port strength to better serve the coordinated development of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei and jointly build the "Belt and Road".

Independent innovation smart ports lead the world

At the intelligent container terminal in Section C of Tianjin Port, the loading, unloading, transfer and stacking of goods are all intelligent. 12 remotely controlled automated shore bridges automatically grab containers, and dozens of artificial intelligence transport robots are loaded with containers to drive safely in the yard, realizing turns, slowing down, avoiding, and docking operations.

"The annual throughput of the second container terminal of Tianjin Port exceeds 2.5 million TEUs. Compared with the traditional automated terminal of the same scale, the container back-of-shipment process has been reduced by 50% and the personnel has been reduced by 60%. Based on the intelligent horizontal transportation system independently developed by Tianjin Port Group, ART (artificial intelligence transportation robot) automatically arrives at the intelligent unlocking station under the guidance of the Beidou navigation system. After loading the container, the cargo will be transported to the designated location along the best driving route calculated by big data." Feng Miao, manager of the operation department of Tianjin Port Second Container Terminal, introduced.

This is just a microcosm of the construction of Tianjin Port’s smart port.

In terms of promoting production automation, Tianjin Port has bravely entered the "unmanned land" of traditional terminal automation, promoted the intelligent upgrade of traditional container terminals and dry bulk terminals, and the automation rate of large container loading and unloading equipment reached more than 80%; it pioneered the 2.0 solution of automated container terminals, iterative upgrade of JTOS, a full stack independent and controllable container terminal management and control system, built a "5G matrix", and 200 5G base stations achieved full coverage of container terminals.

In terms of digital development, Tianjin Port has strengthened the "IoT Intelligent Control" and released the world's first digital twin system "Jinhong" for ports, and built the world's first full-Internet of Things terminal; established a big data center, and built the industry's first A-level green and low-carbon computing center, an intelligent integrated system for groceries and an intelligent power control platform; efficiently operated the "Tiangangtong" platform, with the online acceptance rate of container business exceeding 97%, and the electronicization rate of main business documents reaches 100%, promoting the construction of a smart supply chain system.

Innovation is the primary driving force for development. New technologies such as 5G, Beidou, and artificial intelligence can be seen everywhere in Tianjin Port and are deeply integrated with the port scene. The port's new quality productivity is being cultivated at accelerating, empowering the port to continuously iterate and upgrade with full-process automation and digital transformation.

Deepening the integration of industry, academia and research is the key to innovation. Tianjin Port plays the demonstration role of a national enterprise technology center, postdoctoral workstation, and model worker innovation studio, and established the first academician and expert workstation in the port in the country, and worked with Huawei to form an innovation consortium to build a global innovation laboratory for smart ports. Create the first port big model, develop "port virtual digital humans", and put into use hydrogen-electric hybrid artificial intelligence transportation robots and the world's first 720-kilowatt fully liquid-cooled "super fast charging station" for ports...

In February this year, Tianjin Port completed the localization of large models, further helping to accelerate the research and development of large models in the port industry. Relying on powerful computing power bases and rich scenarios, it has realized intelligent identification and analysis of production safety data, and the accuracy rate has exceeded 90%. Create diversified application scenarios for ports, realize the physical industries of empowering, enabling, expanding and creating artificial intelligence, and create a "Tianjin model" for the in-depth application of artificial intelligence in the port industry.

Tianjin Port’s “Colorful Smart Port” unmanned intelligent operations.

Clean, low-carbon green energy lights up the harbor

"COSCO Shipping's Scorpio' is docked by D04, and this voyage applies for shore power." On May 4, after the "Scorpio" berthed at the Pacific International Container Terminal in Tianjin Port, two cables were extended from the ship and hooked to the ground. Yi Xuedong, equipment administrator of Tianjin Port Electric Power Company, and his colleagues held the heavy cable and worked together to connect the cable head to the socket box and carefully checked the parameters.

"In the past, after the ship was docked at the dock, power supply still had to be generated by diesel, which would emit a large amount of polluted gas. As the port develops green and low-carbon, we connected the green electricity generated by wind power on the shore, photovoltaics, etc. on the ship, and closed its own diesel generator set during the berthing." Yi Xuedong said that after the ship was docked, the emission of polluted gas was greatly reduced.

Green is the background color of Tianjin Port’s development. The world's first batch of "zero carbon" roll-over terminals and the country's first breakwater wind power project have a total installed capacity of 50 megawatts, an annual power generation of 130 million kilowatt-hours, and the internal reversed vehicles transported within container terminals and coke terminals have achieved 100% new energy, and the total area of ​​ecological restoration and governance in the coastal zone is nearly 10 million square meters...

Behind these achievements is that Tianjin Port adheres to the integrated promotion of "safety, environmental protection, energy conservation and emission reduction, pollution reduction and carbon reduction, green and beauty", expands the port's green space, focuses on the development of clean energy utilization, green and low-carbon transportation and green energy guarantee, promotes the construction of land-sea two-way green ports, and unswervingly follow the path of green and sustainable development.

In order to comprehensively promote the green transformation and upgrading of the industry, Tianjin Port takes the integrated plan of "investment, construction and transportation" and the full-chain management of "transmission and use" as the main line. The first breakwater wind power project in the country has been successfully connected to the grid to generate power. 24 large wind turbines fill the entire port, with a total installed wind power capacity of 133.5 megawatts and a photovoltaic facility of 13 megawatts, so that all shore power terminals should be built and connected, and all ro-ro terminals in the port area are operated with "zero carbon" operations.

At the same time, Tianjin Port continues to expand green energy application scenarios, promote the full use of electric trucks, ARTs, and hydrogen trucks, deeply adjust the transportation structure, and strive to build a dual demonstration port of "road to rail bulk to concentrate" to achieve 100% railway transportation of coal, and the proportion of clean ore transportation is at the forefront of ports in the country. It has opened a dual "zero carbon" logistics pilot channel for Tianjin and Jinan New Energy Heavy Trucks, so that port cargo can be "green".

To protect the clear water and blue sky, we need to coordinate the protection of land and sea. Tianjin Port innovatively creates the first intelligent monitoring platform for ecological environment and atmospheric monitoring in domestic ports, improves land greening in the port area, completes the planting of 45,000 shrubs and 199,000 square meters of vegetation, and nearly 10 million square meters of shore land ecological governance, creates an ecological business card for "Red Beach", promotes pollution prevention and control in coastal waters, and achieves 100% compliance with the direct discharge of sea pollution sources. Proliferation and release have been carried out for many years. The biodiversity of the waters in the port area has been further enriched, and the "Golden Coast" is polished with blue seas and blue sky.

At the world's first "smart zero carbon" terminal, two large container ships are undergoing automated operations.

The flow of things is smooth and the two-way linkage is smooth and the inside and outside are smooth.

On February 26, more than 4,000 domestically produced independent brands from the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region set sail from Tianjin Port Global Ro-Ro-Water, heading to overseas markets such as South America, setting a new record for Tianjin Port single-ship foreign trade export commodity vehicles in recent years.

The ports in the world are connected to the world. Tianjin Port is located on the shore of the Bohai Sea, next to the Xiong'an New Area in the north, radiating to the hinterland of the Three Norths. Every day, ships flow continuously and feed thousands of people. Tianjin Port has always taken serving the coordinated development of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei as its strategic driving force, deeply integrated into the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" and promoted the construction of an open pattern of internal and external linkage between land and sea, and mutual assistance between the east and west.

On March 19, Shanghai Port Group, Tianjin Port Group, Guangzhou Port Group and others jointly launched the "Three Ports and One Way" maritime expressway FAST route, marking the official opening of the "maritime expressway" in the three places. The new route will continuously improve port operation efficiency and serve to promote the regional coordinated development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the Yangtze River Delta, and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. The "Tianjin-Shanghai" and "Shanghai-Guangzhou" dual-lines have achieved high-frequency fast flights of 3 to 4 days by configuring 15,000-ton and 35,000-ton ships, and the single-box cost is reduced by about 65% compared with land transportation.

Deeply serve the domestic and international dual circulation, and the radiation capacity of sea and land services is progressing together. The sea-bound routes are expanded, the cabin capacity is expanded, and the transit is strong. The new foreign trade direct routes such as East South America, West South America and East America are added. The container routes have reached 147, which will promote the transformation of Tianjin Port from a single transportation node to a comprehensive port and shipping logistics operator; the land-bound routes are opened, the network is built, and services are optimized, and the advantages of three channels and four ports are used to improve the transportation service level of China-Europe (Asia) freight trains have been opened one after another, and the annual rail-rail intermodal transport volume has exceeded 1.37 million TEUs⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯⋯�

Focusing on building a "maritime gateway" in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Tianjin Port has set up the "dual center" of the Beijing-Tianjin collaborative port service center and the Xiongan New Area Service Center. 8 sea-rail intermodal transport trains connect Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, create the best seaport, deepen the "Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei on the waterway", build a Bohai Rim port ecosystem, improve the "everyday shift" service of the Bohai Rim, and create a branch transportation network in the Bohai Rim with Tianjin Port as the center. The branch transportation capacity has increased by more than 50% in the past six years, which has strongly supported the economic development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and the Bohai Rim regional.

As the transportation network continues to be dense, infrastructure is also expanding and upgrading. Tianjin Port scientifically plans port resources. The "Tianjin Port Master Plan (2024-2035)" has been officially approved by the Ministry of Transport and the Tianjin Municipal People's Government. Many key projects have been selected as national comprehensive freight hub chain-replenishing projects. At present, important projects such as container yard on the west side of Huisheng Wharf, expansion of the Nanjiang Railway Line, and expansion of the waterway in Gaoshaling Port Area have been completed and put into production. The second line harness of the automobile logistics yard and railway container center station have been expanded and upgraded. Projects such as widening and dredging of 300,000-ton channel, and berth upgrade and renovation are being carried out in an orderly manner, which strongly supports the stability of the industrial chain, serves the extension of the supply chain, and helps the construction of a modern comprehensive logistics system.

China Railway Tianjin Container Center Station China-Europe (Asia) train is ready to be shipped.

Ju Industry and Xingye Port Industry and City Integration will be effective

Tianjin was built on the sea and prospered because of the port. As an important strategic resource and "hard core" advantage of Tianjin, Tianjin Port uses ports to bring logistics, logistics to economic and trade, economic and trade to industries, and industrial belt cities to promote the upgrading of "cargo channels" to "economic corridors" and "channel economy" to "port economy", and strives to build a "power source" for integrated development of ports and industries. The advantages of ports are transforming into the victory of Tianjin's high-quality development.

In Tianjin Ancient Culture Street, children are attracted by the exquisite cultural and creative products of "Tiangang Impression", and the splicing of building blocks on the colorful wharf makes them love it.

"This cherry is crisp and sweet, different from what I bought in the supermarket before!" said a tourist after tasting the cherry sold by the "Tiangang Impression" exhibition. French red wine, Chilean cherries, New Zealand kiwi fruit, Argentina steak, Ecuadorian white shrimp... Among the "containers", there are also high-quality products from all over the world.

It is understood that the "Tiangang Impression" display and experience project is a new attempt to make full use of the historical and cultural resources of the ancient cultural street, sort out the cultural context of the port and the city, enhance the cultural taste of urban tourism, promote the deep integration of culture, tourism, commerce and trade, create a new hot spot for tourism and leisure, lead a new attempt to citizens' consumption new fashions, and bring a new experience of cultural tourism trade tourism shopping and entertainment to the general public and tourists.

The city is developed by the port, and the port is used as the city, and the fruits of port development benefit the people. Relying on the construction of a national backbone cold chain logistics base and adapting to the consumption needs of the people in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, Tianjin Port Group vigorously develops cold chain logistics, unblocks urban cold chain distribution channels, carefully creates a "fruit express line", builds a "urban refrigerator" that radiates to serve Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, and enriches people's dining tables. Based on the port and as the link, "ships, ports, cities, tourism, shopping and entertainment" are deeply linked, international cruise ships have resumed their flights in full swing, and the cruise economy continues to make efforts. In 2024, 105 international cruise ships were received and more than 350,000 passengers were received, ranking first in the north.

With the help of Tianjin Port's long-standing historical culture, Tianjin Port has created a business card for the city. Tianjin Port Cultural Tourism Zone was rated as a national AAAA scenic spot. "Shocking Sea Living Festival", "Bubble Music Festival", and "Asian Beach Volleyball Tour" and other pro-hai-family cultural tourism scenes have been unveiled one after another. Linhai's geographical advantages have been transformed into a new driving force for pro-hai-family development, and the thousand-year-old ancient port is reborn.

With the deepening of the integration of port, industry and city, a port economic circle with port as the center and port-friendly industries as the radius is gradually formed. The port advantageous operations cargo and Tianjin's advantageous industries are making efforts in both directions. With ports as the leader, a number of port-friendly port-friendly industries such as aerospace, marine equipment manufacturing, petrochemicals, international cold chain, and cross-border e-commerce continue to gather. Tianjin's emerging marine industries are accelerating their development, and the scale of the marine economy has exceeded 500 billion yuan.

Tianjin International Cruise Home Port welcomes two international cruise ships to berth at the same time.

Party building leads reform and development solid and powerful

"The 'Horse Procuratorial and Procuratorial Express' mechanism brings great convenience to our ship. The shipping schedule is profit for us, and the entry and exit procedures are convenient and efficient, which greatly saves the shipping schedule."

"Our company's agent ship needs emergency medical treatment due to crew injuries. After calling the 'Four Thousand Hotline' at that time, we reserved an instant berth, and the crew received effective treatment."

The "Procuratorate and Port Express Connect" mechanism has been widely recognized. It is understood that the mechanism has established a 24-hour "Hong Kong Express" collaborative service through the external telephone number of the Tianjin Border Inspection Station and the Tianjin Port Group's "Four Thousand Hotline". It has formed a "Hong Kong Express" service list around ship procedures, crew change, port loading and unloading logistics, etc. Whenever there are demands in the service field of Tianjin Border Inspection Station, the mechanism will be launched immediately and the service "green channel" will be opened to work together to optimize the port business environment.

Behind the efficient and convenient mechanism is high-quality party building leadership. Tianjin Port Group and Tianjin Border Inspection Station learn from each other in the form of party building co-construction. The Procuratorate and Hong Kong have coordinated and in-depth exchanges to build a close, comprehensive and convenient new form of "procuratorate" and "Hong Kong" integration and promotion services.

The advantages of party building are gradually transforming into advantages of enterprise development. Tianjin Port innovatively creates an "integrated" party building brand, builds a "six integrations and six forces, six red projects, six members grids, and three evaluations and one" party building work system, builds a "stationary " large supervision system, and continues to rectify the work style and discipline. At the same time, we will give full play to the role of a link between mass organizations, select and cultivate advanced models such as "Tiangang Expert", "Most Beautiful Tianjingang People", and "Tiangang Climbers", and build a harbor of care and a platform for employees to grow and develop.

Reform is the fundamental driving force for development to move towards "newness". Driven by high-quality party building, Tianjin Port has made good use of the "key move" of deepening reform, consolidated and deepened the "integrated" party building brand, created a new model for party building in state-owned enterprises, implemented the "one, two, three, and four, five" overall development strategy, and comprehensively launched a new round of deepening and improving state-owned enterprise reform actions, and continuously enhanced core functions and improved core competitiveness.

As the reform continues to deepen, Tianjin Port integrates resources, clasps its fingers into fists, adjusts its industrial structure, optimizes its resource layout, promotes the coordinated efforts and promotion of the four major sectors of loading and unloading, logistics, diversification, and real estate and land, transforms resource endowments into development efficiency, creates sub-enterprise cultural brands such as "Quality Huisheng", "Super Roll-On" and "Hong Kong Special Installation", expands business areas such as engineering construction, clean energy, and information services, and comprehensively launches a "combination punch" to deepen and improve state-owned enterprise reform, and deepens the improvement of reform efficiency in areas such as management and operation, compliance and risk control.

The tide is surging, the sky is wide, and it is right to set sail. The new era has given new missions, and the new journey calls for new achievements. Tianjin Port Group will strive to create a "upgraded version" of world-class smart green hub ports, and strive to be the vanguard of building a Chinese-style modern port, and speed up towards the goal of "Double First-Class", and continue to paint a new picture of the vigorous port at the forefront of the times.

Author丨Reporter Yin Zixuan Correspondent Ma Chaoyang

Pictures丨Tianjin Port Group