Nansha Port expanding in Greater Bay Area
The use of IGVs means less ground settlement than in older terminals. After research and testing, lightweight foam concrete, which is used in highway construction, has been applied in terminal buildings for the first time.
Large-diameter tube-sheet composite piles and five-axis cement mixing piles are also being used for the first time.
As part of the company's innovative building information modeling (BIM) management platform, and to boost efficiency, a drone makes four trips daily to gather information on the progress in various parts of the construction of the 1.2 million square-meter site, said Han Wenfeng, Party secretary of the branch.
The new terminal is designed with two 100,000-ton berths, two 50,000-ton berths, 12 2,000-ton barge berths and four working vessel berths.
With the fourth phase, the Nansha Port area's annual container handling capacity will rise to 24 million twenty-foot equivalent units.
