On December 22 at 15:18, a ceremony was held at Berth 7 of the North One Terminal to mark the lifting of the 5 millionth container, signifying a significant milestone as the annual container throughput of the company exceeded 5 million standard containers for the first time. Prior to this, on December 3, the North One Terminal had already achieved an annual sea-rail intermodal operation volume exceeding 1 million standard containers, bringing the total container volume of the North One Terminal to 6 million standard containers for the first time. This "double breakthrough" achievement injects strong momentum into the construction of a world-class strong port at the Ningbo-Zhoushan Port.

As the starting point for the container business of the Ningbo-Zhoushan Port and the first specialized container terminal, the North One Terminal has undergone over 30 years of development. By expanding space through the "westward extension and eastward expansion," deepening integrated operations, the terminal has achieved a significant increase in operational capacity. Currently, the North One Terminal has 2215.4 meters of quay shoreline, 7 container berths, over 1,050,000 square meters of stacking yard, and is equipped with more than 20 quay cranes, and over 100 gantry cranes and other large handling equipment.

In recent years, the North One Terminal has actively expanded its domestic container business. By optimizing domestic shipping routes, strengthening collaboration, and enhancing domestic services, it has overcome challenges such as smaller domestic vessel sizes, varied container conditions, and difficulty in loading and unloading, steadily improving its domestic operational capabilities. By the end of the first 11 months of this year, the North One Terminal had handled over 2 million standard containers in domestic trade, a 6.1% increase compared to the previous year.

With the overall stability of the quay shoreline and equipment resources, the North One Terminal has further tapped into its internal potential this year, emphasizing fine management as a key strategy to improve ship berthing efficiency and reduce waiting times. The company prioritizes vessel scheduling, implements a "one ship, one strategy" operation mode, strengthens communication and coordination with port units, shipping companies, etc., enhances full-process on-site operation control, dynamically adjusts production factors such as gantry cranes, trucks, stacking yards, achieving a scale of operation of "23 routes on average, 26 routes at peak times," and has repeatedly broken daily, weekly, and monthly container handling records. In the first 11 months, the terminal's comprehensive vessel berthing efficiency exceeded the "excellent efficiency action" evaluation value by 12.2%, reducing average waiting time by 10.7% compared to the evaluation value.

Furthermore, the North One Terminal is accelerating its transformation towards intelligence and green technology, relying on digital reform to drive progress. The company has launched the TOS operating system and implemented the Port Visualization System (OPTIM), integrating production data for visual scheduling to enhance terminal efficiency. The terminal is promoting intelligent truck scheduling (PRTT) mode to automatically allocate truck resources based on vessel loading and unloading, yard operations, railway transportation needs, increasing truck utilization. The company is actively promoting the "yard expert" feature, introducing innovative operation modes like "direct ship-to-ship transfer" and "loading/unloading at the same slot," enhancing overall terminal operation efficiency, and upgrading to smart and green equipment, having deployed 42 remote-controlled quay cranes and gantry cranes, along with 134 electric trucks to support efficient production operations.