Hainan makes every effort to ensure that returning passengers cross the sea in an orderly manner.
On the morning of January 27th, Wei Wu, the duty director of Haikou Xinhai Ferry Terminal Co., Ltd., came to the port area to guide the passenger vehicles to enter the port and board the ship in an orderly manner. "Usually there are four gates. During Spring Festival travel rush, we added eight gates to check tickets, and dynamically adjusted them according to the traffic situation on the spot to improve the efficiency of vehicle ticket checking." Wei Wu said.
The reporter learned that since January 24 (the third day of the first month), an average of 15,000 cars have left the island from the three major ports in Haikou every day.
During the Spring Festival holiday this year, Hainan’s tourism market was booming, and the passenger traffic data of Qiongzhou Strait reached a new high, reaching the highest level in five years. According to the statistics of the Provincial Department of Transportation, as of January 26th, the 40-day Spring Festival travel rush in 2023 was over half, with a total of 2,040,600 passengers and 533,300 vehicles entering and leaving the Qiongzhou Strait, increasing by 59.49% and 48.29% respectively compared with 2022.
The rapid growth of traffic flow and complicated weather conditions have brought great challenges to the work of Spring Festival travel rush in Qiongzhou Strait. In the past few days, the departments of transportation, ports, traffic police, maritime affairs, communications and meteorology on both sides of the Qiongzhou Strait have cooperated closely, taken various measures simultaneously, made efficient overall plans, continuously improved the port operation efficiency, and made every effort to ensure passengers to cross the sea smoothly and orderly.
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Ensure the smooth flow of Qiongzhou Strait
Before the Spring Festival, this year’s Spring Festival travel rush exam in Qiongzhou Strait is facing severe challenges.
Affected by the fog suspension and the pre-holiday passenger flow peak superposition, especially the number of cross-sea vehicles in go on road trip continues to be high, resulting in different degrees of congestion in the ports on both sides of Qiongzhou Strait, especially the long waiting time for vehicles entering the island on the north shore.
In order to smooth the transportation in Qiongzhou Strait, the Provincial Department of Transportation quickly dispatched elite troops to form a special class, went to the North Shore to co-locate with relevant departments in Guangdong, took the initiative to dock, cooperate together and strengthen transportation scheduling, and made every effort to help the North Shore to divert stranded vehicles and passengers, ensuring that the passenger ro-ro transportation in Qiongzhou Strait basically returned to normal transportation before the Spring Festival holiday.
The relevant person in charge of the Provincial Department of Transportation said that from January 17 to 20, a total of 142 ships on the south bank were organized to be emptied in an orderly manner to fully guarantee the transportation on the north bank of Qiongzhou Strait; At the same time, the ship stowage time is shortened, and the on-site dispatcher is increased. Under the premise of ensuring safety, the fast-forward and fast-out of vehicles boarding and disembarking are realized, and the assembly efficiency is improved.
"During this year’s Spring Festival travel rush, we invested a total of 54 ships in the passenger ro-ro transport in Qiongzhou Strait, and the dispatching center comprehensively coordinated the production and deployment of ships in Xinhai Port, xiuying port Port, Xuwen Port and Hai’ an New Port during Spring Festival travel rush." Cai Shaojia, deputy manager of the security department of Haikou Xinhai Ferry Terminal Co., Ltd. told the reporter that before the arrival of the return peak, the port and shipping side had predicted the traffic volume in advance, analyzed and arranged the transportation capacity, and would work overtime according to the situation of on-site passengers. At the same time, according to the passenger flow on the island before the festival, the mode of "fully booking for crossing the sea" was adopted to actively cope with the peak passenger flow of return cars.
In addition, in order to improve the assembly efficiency, 18 berths in Xinhai Port and 7 berths in xiuying port were put into operation during the peak period of transportation; In combination with the actual situation, further optimize the signs inside and outside the two ports, optimize the traffic guidance, reasonably set up the entry channels for "cross-sea vehicles and non-cross-sea vehicles", strengthen personnel guidance at the same time, improve the efficiency of security screening and weighing, and cooperate internally and externally to ensure the close connection of all production links in the ports, so that the vehicles in the port areas can drive orderly and smoothly.
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Do a good job of on-site guidance
"Please turn right for the vehicles going to Xinhai Port, turn left from the intersection of Changbin, and enter the No.21 road for crossing …" On January 27th, Ms. Song, a Guangdong tourist, set out on a journey home by car, following the traffic signs and roadside broadcast prompts, and arrived at the port smoothly and boarded the ferry.
Checking reservation information and maintaining road order-Haikou traffic police can be seen everywhere on the way into the port.
At 8: 00 on January 23, Haikou traffic police began to implement traffic control on the surrounding sections of Haikou’s "three ports" in a timely manner, and released the latest road conditions of the port in real time.
In order to avoid road congestion, along the road near the port in Haikou City, there is an obvious sign for crossing the sea every 30 meters. The traffic police command and guide the vehicles to the port at the intersection with traffic control, and the roadside broadcast is also playing warm reminders in cycles.
At the same time, Hainan Province continued to increase publicity. The Provincial Department of Transportation, in conjunction with the Provincial Communications Administration, coordinated the three major operators to send warm SMS reminders to mobile phone users and roaming users in the province, reminding Qiongzhou Strait to "make an appointment to cross the sea" in advance, and timely published the latest Spring Festival travel rush data information and dynamic information about crossing the sea in Hainan Daily, Hainan Communications and other provincial media and WeChat WeChat official account.
Improve the efficiency of ships entering and leaving the port
Provide full-time volunteer service
In order to ensure the safety of water travel in Qiongzhou Strait during peak transportation hours, Haikou Maritime Safety Administration instructed port enterprises to implement a new organization mode for ships entering and leaving the port in the early stage, so as to improve the efficiency of ships entering and leaving the port. The throughput capacity of the new seaport has increased from 162 flights in a single day to 188 flights at present, and the efficiency of entering and leaving the port has increased by about 16%.
The Qiongzhou Strait Ship Traffic Management Center also launched a three-level emergency duty mechanism of "duty leader+duty supervisor+duty officer", strictly implemented the 24-hour duty system for leaders and key positions, and added a special station for passenger-ro routes to give priority to passenger-ro navigation and improve the efficiency of passenger-ro transportation.
The maritime department also works closely with the meteorological department to pay attention to the meteorological warning of cold wave and strong wind in Qiongzhou Strait and heavy fog in winter, reminding enterprises and ro-ro ships to make preparations in advance, organizing relevant units to hold navigation consultations in time, and issuing early warning of ro-ro ship shutdown in advance to minimize the impact of bad weather on transportation; And coordinate rescue helicopters and large-scale maritime rescue vessels to stand by during peak hours, and always be ready to search and rescue people in distress at sea.
On January 27th, near Xinhai Port, volunteers from Xixiu Town, xiuying district, Haikou City were providing drinking water, eight-treasure porridge and Huoxiang Zhengqi water for passing passengers.
"Do you want to go to Xuwen Port? Please choose the latest flight today and register the information of passengers and vehicles." Volunteer Mr. Chen told the reporter that in addition to providing free materials for needy passengers crossing the sea, they also provided consultation and guidance services to help passengers and drivers who need to leave the island to book tickets online in advance through "Qiongzhou Strait Ferry Butler" and "Railway Ferry" WeChat WeChat official account.
"From before the Spring Festival to now, we have recruited volunteers for the society, and many caring people have actively signed up. As long as there are vehicles waiting to cross the port, volunteer service activities will continue. " Yang Zhi, deputy secretary of Xiuying District Committee of the Communist Youth League, said that this volunteer activity has set up seven volunteer service points in and around Haikou Port 3, providing 24-hour service for cross-sea passengers in three shifts every day, with a total of hundreds of volunteers serving on the job every day.
The relevant person in charge of Haikou Municipal Bureau of Transportation and Port and Shipping said that in order to effectively ensure the smooth and orderly port of Spring Festival travel rush, the bureau will continue to implement the working mechanism of "purchasing tickets in advance and entering the port with tickets", and increase manpower to do a good job in providing services such as vehicle guidance and order maintenance to ensure the safe and smooth travel of passengers entering and leaving the island.
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