China Youth Daily and China Youth Network reporter Li Chao intern Cao Wei.
Approaching the Spring Festival, the annual Spring Festival "drama" kicked off. The packing workshop of Nanjing Railway Station is "ready to meet the railway transportation packages from all over the country".
Located in the basement of the packaging workshop, the goods are more and more, boxes of New Year's goods are stacked and stacked, loaded car after car, and the strong New Year's flavor fills the warehouse of more than 3,000 square meters.
Guo Liang, the baggage attendant of the baggage workshop of Nanjing Railway Station, said that now the daily loading and unloading of packages can reach 7,000-8,000 pieces, and the package workshop is responsible for the loading and unloading of goods on 7 platforms, and sometimes there can even be 7 platforms and 7 shifts at the same time.
On the command screen of the dispatching room, a line of trains marked in yellow is particularly eye-catching, indicating that the K371 train from Datong, Shanxi to Shanghai departs from Chuzhou "neighboring station".
Come on, come on, 371 is starting to load". Guo Liang held the train schedule and the list of goods to give instructions.
The four porters began to set off, they changed into work coats, put on thick canvas gloves, drove the "little yellow car" from the bag workshop to the railway departure floor, and then through the wet and cold tunnel, climbed the slope to the departure platform, and waited in a line for the arrival of the train.
A few minutes later, the train slowly stopped at platform 7 of Nanjing Railway Station.
At the end of each train, there is a carriage marked "XL", which is the pinyin abbreviation of "luggage", which corresponds to "luggage carriage".
Unlike ordinary carriages, the luggage compartment has a "double door" setting to make it easier for cargo to enter and exit. The goods will be stacked neatly according to the order of arrival.
Generally, the first station will stack the goods at the door to facilitate unloading of the goods and save time. Guo Liang said.
Each train has a limited amount of time to stop at the platform, and the goods on the train must be unloaded within a limited amount of time before the goods on the baggage car are moved into the carriage.
Although the train will know the amount of goods at the station in advance and calculate the stopping time, fast, stable and efficient loading and unloading is what Guo Liang and the stevedores have been pursuing and insisting on.
The moment the door of the luggage compartment at the end of the train opened, the masters quickly stepped into the carriage and began to unload.
The slogan "Take care of the bag" is posted on the top of the carriage with white letters, which is particularly eye-catching.
These days, the temperature has plummeted, and even at noon, the outdoor temperature is hovering at zero degrees, but the foreheads of several porters are covered with beads of sweat.
After unloading, the next step is loading. The train sent out a total of 39 pieces of goods in Nanjing, weighing 554 kilograms, and every time he moved a piece of goods on the tractor, Guo Liang counted them beside him.
Some boxes are half a person tall and need to be carried by two people.
Liquor, medicines, electronic products, fresh gift boxes, ......More than 3,000 square meters of packaging workshop is full of all kinds of goods.
There are not only passengers in a hurry who travel from south to north, but also thousands of goods that can be delivered on time on the "hitchhiker", which are all family affection and nostalgia of thousands of families.
Guo Liang told a reporter from China Youth Daily and China Youth Network that the parcel throughput of Nanjing Railway Station can be ranked among the top 5 in major railway stations in the country. The bag workshop is composed of porters and stevedores, and each group has 18-20 workers in "three shifts", 24 hours a day.
The day shift is from 7 a.m. to 6:15 p.m., and the night shift is from 5:40 p.m. to 7:40 a.m. the next morning. He said that about 40 workers are working at the same time and can complete the consignment, loading and unloading and transshipment of 8,000 pieces of goods per day. "On the eve of the Spring Festival, the volume of gift box transportation has skyrocketed, and now the team is almost at full capacity."
In recent days, Guo Liang has clearly felt that the number of packages to and from the Northeast has increased a lot, on the one hand, due to the restrictions on road transportation due to weather reasons, and on the other hand, the recent "tourism fever" in the Northeast, many goods are concentrated in the railway.
The goods ** are mainly divided into two kinds, one is the mailing of the railway express in the front hall, and the other is the package unloaded at transit stations across the country. In the front hall, China Railway Express is responsible for handling mailing and charging, and after the package passes through the security check, it will arrive at the packaging workshop.
From the loading of goods at the station, carrying security checks, loading plans to platform loading operations, Guo Liang controls the whole process. "There can't be a little bit of a mistake in the coordination of all links. ”
In the eyes of many people, the work of packing is repetitive and monotonous. Guo Liang said that each of the six major links of transportation, loading and unloading, transit, handover, storage and delivery must be carefully checked, closely cooperated, and carefully and rigorously.
Compared with usual, there are more aquatic goods and fresh fruits and vegetables, which also puts forward higher requirements for railway transportation. Guo Liang said that he will actively allocate transportation capacity according to the deployment of the workshop to help the transportation of Spring Festival goods.
In 2004, Guo Liang became an employee of Nanjing Railway Station with his yearning for railways.
At that time, computers were operated "stand-alone" and could not be connected to the Internet. A handover certificate is required for the handover of goods, and it is registered manually. "Each document is 3 copies, register the sender, sender, and the content of the goods, and hand them over to the conductor in 2 copies, and the remaining stubs are used as proof of handover. ”
From the original operation of manual ticket copying and hand-to-shoulder, to the exclusive PDA scanner, the goods are uploaded through the network as soon as they are scanned, which is convenient for customers to track the logistics information of the goods through the mobile terminal, which greatly improves the accuracy of parcel sending and receiving.
In addition, the handover certificate is prepared by computer, which may cause illegible handwriting in previous years. Now that the degree of mechanization has increased, the stevedores only need to start the tractor and hang a trailer full of goods in the back, saving a lot of time and manpower.
From low-value consumables to high-end goods. Guo Liang said frankly that more than ten years ago, migrant workers were working in other places, and before the Spring Festival, they would consign quilts and other daily necessities by railway, which was the main component of railway transportation at that time.
Now, the people's life is getting better and better, and electronic products, digital electrical appliances, high-end wine and local specialties have gradually become the "main force" of railway transportation.
Guo Liang said that seafood and other goods in coastal areas have high requirements for timeliness, and "morning and evening" or "next-day delivery" are all to meet customers' needs for timeliness. The goods should be sorted when they arrive at the packing workshop, and they will be shipped to different trains according to different destinations, such as Hangzhou to the east, Beijing to the north, Lanzhou to the west, and Guangzhou to the south. At present, all major provincial capitals can achieve "next-day delivery", and neighboring cities can achieve "morning and evening arrival".
In recent years, as a window department, it is common for the bag workshop to deal with passengers. Some passengers will ask on the platform, such as changing trains in **? Outbound in? These small questions will be answered enthusiastically by the stevedores, and if they cannot be answered, they will also be actively guided to the passenger duty room.
Guo Liang said that the biggest advantage of railway transportation is that the railway network is very developed, and in case of bad weather such as rain and snow, railway stowage can be carried out normally and stably, while road or air transportation may be affected. The railway system has good safety performance, which can basically ensure on-time delivery, so that customers can rest assured.
Thousands of goods were loaded and unloaded at Nanjing Railway Station and rushed to thousands of lights. "Only when there are New Year's goods can there be New Year's flavor," Guo Liang said, and it is his job duty to ensure that the "New Year's flavor" is delivered safely to his home. Although the Spring Festival is very busy, it is also the most fulfilling time of the year.
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