Install a 'safety valve' to ensure the stability of the national energy and resource supply chain
At 6am, a ten thousand ton giant ship loaded with imported iron ore slowly docked at the main raw material terminal of Baosteel Company in Donghai Island Port Area of Zhanjiang Port, marking the beginning of the import of bulk resource commodities (iron ore) in Zhanjiang Port during the "15th Five Year Plan" period. With the high-speed operation of the unloading conveyor belt, Zhanjiang Customs has also launched a new on-site supervision model of "machine substitution" and "smart inspection".
The 'technology package' enables unloading and customs clearance to proceed in unison
In the past, the customs clearance inspection of imported iron ore had to be personally carried out by customs officers, which involved multiple supervision links, manpower consumption, high operational risks, high enterprise costs, and long clearance time. Customs comprehensively deepens reform and promotes the construction of smart customs, equipping the unloading process of imported iron ore with a "technology package": near-infrared spectrometer is like a "golden eye", quickly scanning and analyzing the composition of iron ore; The high-speed image recognition system is like an "eagle eye", accurately capturing foreign objects mixed in the ore; The channel type radioactive detection equipment is like a "safety guard", monitoring the risk of ore radioactivity in real time; The high-tech equipment builds a highly intelligent "perception network" that real-time sends on-site supervision data back to six types of big data algorithm models in the background for "intelligent analysis". Customs officers use centralized control application systems to conduct remote "intelligent disposal" of imported iron ore solid waste, foreign inclusion detection, radioactive monitoring, logistics monitoring, and even automatic sampling, synchronized with iron ore unloading.
Smart Inspection "saves time, money, effort, and worry for customs clearance enterprises
For our company, time is money, "Liu Qingwei, the logistics department director of Baosteel Zhanjiang Iron and Steel Co., Ltd., calculated." With the new model of 'smart inspection', the system is like a tireless' cloud duty customs officer ', allowing us to have a clear understanding of the customs clearance progress. The average clearance time for imported iron ore is saved by about 15 hours, and since the trial operation, the logistics cost of ship detention alone has been saved by more than 43 million yuan. "It is understood that the" smart inspection "model for iron ore has saved more than 200 million yuan for three pilot enterprises since its trial operation at Baosteel Zhanjiang's main raw material terminal, Zhanjiang Port terminal, and Guangxi Fangcheng Guanggang Port.
For customs, the changes brought about by "smart inspection" are equally profound. Thanks to remote intelligent operations, the frequency of our field work has been significantly reduced, and we have shifted more to backend data monitoring and risk analysis. The safety of our operations is more guaranteed, and our work is more effortless and worry free, "said Song Jianing, the head of the inspection department of Xiashan Customs under Zhanjiang Customs. According to statistics, under this model, both ends of the enterprise save more than 95% of manpower.
From 'bonsai' to 'scenery', 'smart inspection' blooms everywhere
In terms of applicable products, "smart inspection" has expanded from imported iron ore to regulatory areas such as imported coal. The success of 'smart inspection' for iron ore has given us confidence in expanding to coal supervision, "said the person in charge of the" smart inspection "project at Zhanjiang Customs." Although the characteristics of the goods are different, the underlying logic of smart supervision is the same - through image analysis and real-time monitoring of radioactivity, we have also achieved accurate identification of coal inclusions and rapid detection of radioactivity
In terms of application scenarios, "smart inspection" is accelerating its transformation from a "bonsai" to a "scenery": from the "model room" of a single steel enterprise dedicated terminal to the "routine operation" of a 400000 ton large public bulk cargo terminal at Zhanjiang Port; From being a lone star at water transport ports to flourishing at railway ports, "Smart Inspection" has now achieved full functionality or plug-in replication and promotion across 13 directly affiliated customs terminals and categories.
Smart inspection has enhanced the productivity of customs supervision, providing technological support for customs to achieve better supervision, higher safety, greater convenience, and stricter anti smuggling measures. It has not only accelerated the clearance of imported bulk resource-based commodities, but also achieved a win-win situation of improving customs supervision efficiency and reducing costs and increasing efficiency for enterprises. It has also installed a "safety valve" to ensure the stability of the national energy and resource supply chain.