At Santongyuan Terminal in Yijinhuoluo Banner, Ordos, a truck loaded with coal is passing through an unmanned digital weighing room. The weighing time is about 10 seconds. In 10 seconds, the digital system of the weighing room has completed automatic weighing, automatic settlement, and automatic return of cargo data, and the driver does not need to get off the car during the whole journey.
At a straight line distance of five to six hundred meters from Kampong House, a train is passing the Batuta platform of the Baoshen Railway on the Ordos Coal Special Line.
Shi Zhenzhong, chief engineer of the Santongyuan Coal Terminal, told The Paper (www.thepaper.cn) that the annual coal transport capacity of Batuta platform is 38 million tons, and the unattended weighing house will reduce the weighing time of bicycles from the original 3 minutes. It was shortened to 10 seconds, the loading and unloading of the terminal was increased from 300 vehicles to 900 vehicles per day, and the throughput was increased by 3 times.
“With such a large operation center, many links including the smart weighing room have been unmanned. We only have 20 people including chefs and administrative staff, and we can handle all the operations.” Shi Zhenzhong said.
Logistic costs have always been the first cost factor in the coal industry. Statistics show that coal logistics costs have accounted for more than one-third of coal prices, even reaching 50% in individual regions.
“At present, the transportation cost of the entire coal industry is about 280 billion yuan. It is imperative to improve the efficiency of coal transportation and reduce the cost of coal logistics and transportation.” said Zhao Xiaoli, a coal industry analyst.
Ordos is a major coal-producing city in Inner Mongolia. The annual coal production and transportation volume is nearly 700 million tons, of which 400 million tons are transported by road. There are 4 special coal transportation lines passing through, namely Shuohuang Line, Daqin Line, Mengji Line and Haoji Railway . A coal mine with an annual output of about 40 million tons requires about 2000-3000 heavy trucks to transport it.
In Ordos, there are truck drivers from all over the country who commute between the coal mine and the shipping station every day. According to the Inner Mongolia TV station news network report, Ordos accounted for more than 60% of the 69 network freight companies in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, with 39. In 2020, more than 60% of logistics companies in Ordos will have access to the smart logistics platform.
Smart logistics, that is, through intelligent software and hardware, Internet of Things, big data and other technical means, to achieve refined, dynamic, and visualized management of all aspects of logistics, improve the ability of intelligent analysis and decision-making and automated operation execution of the logistics system, thereby improving the efficiency of logistics operation Logistics model. In the field of coal, it is to rely on the big data platform of the coal industry to establish an information flow mechanism for all parties involved in coal production and transportation, and to promote the smooth connection of coal production arrangements, storage, transportation and logistics. The Internet of Things technology company G7 is the technology supplier of the unmanned weighing room system at Santongyuan Terminal.
“There are about 350 coal mines normally being mined in the Ordos region, and the volume of coal logistics in the entire Ordos region is about 22 billion yuan. However, the overall intelligence and intelligence level of the Ordos region should be at a medium level. There is a lot of room to continue to optimize.” Zhao Xiaoli told The Paper (www.thepaper.cn).
Zhao Xiaoli believes that the core utility of smart logistics is to improve the efficiency of the entire coal industry chain supply chain, and smart dispatch can greatly reduce the cost of coal transportation.
“Currently, the data information of the coal industry chain supply chain is opaque. After an ordinary express order is placed, you can see real-time data updates on your mobile phone at any time, but the coal industry can basically only see a part of their own data. Data is invisible.” Zhao Xiaoli believes that smart logistics is to open up the data and information of the entire industry chain, from the coal mine to the power plant, connecting various key nodes through smart equipment and smart technology.
Smart logistics not only saves labor costs for the terminal, but also facilitates freight dispatch, and ultimately directly benefits the group of large cargo drivers.
At the coal storage yard of Baotou Power Branch of Huadian Inner Mongolia Energy Co., Ltd., The Paper News reporter saw that after trucks from the Ordos Coal Mine unloaded the containers full of coal, the empty containers were hoisted onto the truck again, ready to return. . The loading and unloading process of a truck only takes 15 minutes.
According to the relevant person in charge of Huadian Baotou Power Branch, in the past, the average waiting time for ordinary heavy coal trucks to reach the gate of the power plant was 5 to 6 hours. There will be no dust and no coal during the 15-minute transportation.
Li Kui, Secretary of the Party Committee of Ordos Xinhe Group, told The Paper (www.thepaper.cn) that Xinhe Group is trying to fully integrate its coal transportation with G7’s digital freight full-chain services to achieve procurement, sales, park scheduling, transportation, and settlement. Digital management in multiple links.
“In the inherent transportation system, drivers have to line up to pull coal at the mine; we dispatch cars and don’t know if coal is available in the coal mine. We have to call and ask acquaintances, which is very inefficient.” Li Kui said.
Li Kui introduced that at present, the system can dispatch the waybills by retrieving queuing information of coal mines through the Internet digital platform. The number of orders received by the driver, the number being transported, and the number delivered will be automatically sent back to the system, and the background can monitor all the conditions of the car transportation at any time. “The driver used to pull once a day, but now he can pull three times a day.” Li Kui said.
Li Kui said that the digital logistics system has also realized unattended coal mine weighing houses, which provides convenience to truck drivers. “The driver takes orders online and settles online, and he won’t be asked by food or card. In the past, there were people on duty in the coal mine pump room, and the driver had to stop and get off the truck. Check with the pump room to record the data of the coal. The cars are gone.”
A person in charge of a local coal logistics company in Ordos told The Paper that in the coal field, it is difficult for a truck to travel more than 15,000 kilometers in a month because the truck drivers spend a lot of time in queuing.
According to G7’s calculations, the average monthly mileage of vehicles of large express delivery companies can reach 30,000 kilometers.
“Inefficiency is low, which ultimately leads to an increase in unit cost. A major pain point for drivers is efficiency. It is normal for logistics drivers for bulk commodities to stay in the car at the door of a certain factory or mine for two or three days. This is all provided through G7. Based on the data, we can calculate when the driver enters the power plant and the terminal, and try to control the time for the driver within a more reasonable range,” said the person in charge of the logistics company.
The Paper Journalists combed and found that the goals of optimizing coal logistics and transportation were mentioned in the “14th Five-Year Plan” of many key coal-producing provinces. Among them, the concept of “smart logistics” has been mentioned many times.
Inner Mongolia proposed that it should focus on smart transportation infrastructure and smart energy infrastructure, accelerate the deep integration of digital technology, energy and transportation; accelerate the cultivation of third-party logistics companies, and vigorously develop multimodal transportation, drop-and-hook transportation, network freight and other characteristics Logistics, build or transform a batch of intelligent warehousing and logistics demonstration bases, adjust the transportation structure, and continue to promote the transfer of bulk cargo to railways.
Gansu proposed to accelerate the construction of new infrastructure, vigorously develop smart transportation and smart logistics; strengthen the construction of coal production, supply, storage and distribution system, and promote the construction of “North-South coal transportation” and “Mongolian coal internal transportation”.
Yunnan proposed to accelerate the construction of a modern integrated logistics system, rationally lay out logistics hubs, speed up the layout of overseas logistics markets, build a modern logistics operation system of “channel + hub + network + platform”, and promote the formation of a multimodal logistics network across the province. Build into a regional international cargo hub, and build Kunming into a regional international air cargo hub. Strengthen the infrastructure construction of smart logistics platform.
Not long ago, the “2020 Annual Report on the Development of the Coal Industry” issued by the China Coal Industry Association proposed that in the future, it will take advantage of 5G, big data, informatization and intelligent technology to accelerate the development of modern coal logistics and smart logistics, and promote a modern coal trading market. System construction.
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