OREANDA-NEWS. January 11, 2012. Majishan Port has superseded annual challenging target ahead of schedule. For the first time the throughput exceeds 60 million tons, superseding 20% of designed capacity, achieving RMB 273 million yuan of profit and reaching historical best record, reported the press-centre of Baosteel.

Majishan Port annual designed throughput is 50 million tons and it achieved monthly production records in November 2007. To further enhance the transit amount, since 2008, Baosteel Co.,Ltd. organizes "Majishan Port transit capacity upgrading" cross-sectoral, inter-regional and cross-industry special labor competition led by transportation department, manufacturing department, iron mill, raw materials procurement center, Baosteel Resources and local joint inspection department Shengsi Marine Department. It promotes Majishan throughput year by year. To expand competition achievement and further expand Majishan ore raw materials throughput scale, early last year, the participating units jointly organize" Majishan annual throughput challenge: 60 million tons," cross-sectoral,inter-regional and cross-industry special labor competition.

In the labor competition, participating units collaborate closely, creating a "work partner & life friend" atmosphere of unity, harmony and progress and greatly arousing all participating staff 's working enthusiasm.

With "think tank" support, transportation department (Majishan Port's management unit) develops a detailed competition program according to the new situation and characteristics, puts forward the Majishan Port monthly operation plan. By conventional labor competition measures, it maximizes operational efficiency and ensures the normal operation of field devices.Especially in the second half of last year, after the iron ore import price falls, the port's normal production organization is seriously challenged.

In this regard, Majishan Port gives full play to "calmness, self-confidence, pioneership, challenging the limits" spirit, strengthens the internal potential tap and carries out employee situation and task education for many times. While benchmarking with Qingdao Port and other related domestic ports, it adheres to production operation daily plan, strives to create a "learning, helping and emulating" competition atmosphere and organizes benchmarking competition among different operation sites, teams and posts.

It carries out system resources integration self-management activities by strengthening grass-roots management. It strengthens single vessel, single-team management, improves stockyard storage rate, speeds up the turnover rate and reduces cost reasonably and scientifically. It optimizes annual fixed renovation model and organization mode, promotes "multi-port balanced maintenance mode", fully releases equipment production capacity, develops existing equipment's scale effect and ensures the efficient operation of every port. During the year, production operation records have been created and the competitiveness of the port is greatly enhanced.

In addition, Majishan Port also actively develops social mining operations, actively visits coastal customers, enhances communication and collaboration with customers and tries to have more social mine to transit in Majishan. It enhances port handling capacity in order to successfully achieve annual competition target.