The port segment of the Group deepened the internal and external collaboration in improving the shipping-port-sales collaboration and linkage mechanism, streamlining the loading and unloading process and organising production efficiently. In 2024, the completed loading volume at Huanghua Port was 214.4 million tonnes , representing a year-on-year increase of 2.3%, ranking first among ports in “North-to-South Coal Transportation” for six consecutive years, and the throughput of bulk cargo reached 8.2 million tonnes, which was the best level since its commencement. Completed loading volume at Tianjin Coal Dock was 44.0 million tonnes , representing a year-on-year decrease of 3.9%.
The Group has been accelerating the development of large multi-functional, comprehensive and modern ports. Huanghua Port (coal port area) Phase V Project (planned coal loading capacity 50 million tonnes/year), Tianjin Harbour Administration Phase II Project (designed annual port capacity of 35 million tonnes of coal and 18 million tonnes of ore) were approved; the construction of Huanghua Port (coal port area) Oil Terminal Project and Zhuhai Gaolan Port Area China Energy Bulk Cargo Terminal Project have been commenced; with the upgraded No. 2 and No.3 unloading berths, Zhuhai Harbour Administration has met the navigational conditions for fully loaded 150,000-tonne-class vessels.
The Group has been vigorously driving the development of green innovative ports. Huanghua Harbour Administration has established a long-term dust suppression system covering the entire coal port production process, an intelligent ecological environment management system, and the “Two Lakes, Three Wetlands (兩湖三濕地)” ecological water circulation system. The dust suppression rate has reached 98%, saving more than 4 million cubic meters of freshwater annually; Tianjin Harbour Administration has developed a clean production system, thereby realizing automated environmental monitoring, intelligent dust management and integrated control; Zhuhai Harbour Administration has been optimizing the whole process of dust control. By a combination of this measure and the development and use of shore power and clean energy, Zhuhai Harbour Administration has developed the roadmap for standardisation of clean and green technologies for bulk cargo terminals.
