Half an hour later, three heavy trucks set off again, this time their destination was Pier 3 in the port area.
The tunnel leading to the port area obviously has more traffic than the other tunnels. From time to time, you can see some mellow-looking hovercrafts whizzing back and forth. On the eight-lane road, these hovercrafts almost occupy two lanes. The management committee has recently been preparing to open up another dedicated channel.
Fortunately, the gold mine was only 30 kilometers away from the Chukotka coastline, which barely allowed them to work hard. A direct channel from the Kupol gold mine to the coastline was opened.
It was a coastline that looked like a cliff. Several holes were cut out from the mountainside and several internal docks were built. Just to solve the problem of preventing sea water from flowing back after high tide cost the Qinglong Study Group a lot of brain cells.
In the end, everyone simply chose to surrender and no longer pursued 24-hour operation of the port.
Therefore, all entrances are closed at high tide every day, and work resumes at low tide. According to calculations, the next low tide cycle will be about an hour away, and the time limit for them to reach the port is still sufficient for the time being.
So an hour later, three heavy trucks arrived in front of the dock. They said that the dock was actually just a wide unloading platform, which looked very empty.
This is considering that the frequency of use of the current port is not very high. It has only built a basic framework. There are only basic loading and unloading platforms and berths. With the current productivity, it is nonsense to use gantry cranes for rapid loading and unloading in such a place.
In that case, the height of the port inside the mountain must be doubled. Not to mention the difficulty of construction inside the mountain, a bad move may cause a major collapse caused by changes in the entire mountain structure and directly destroy the port. Buried.
The height of the unloading square of the internal port terminal is only six meters. Although the bottom of the channel is 20 meters high from the ceiling, it is also very embarrassing when including the water level. It really cannot be higher, but this height just happens to block some large equipment. , not only may it not be transported in, but it may also be prone to collision.
All this has forced the Qinglong Study Group to engage in modular production of various large-scale equipment. Large-scale orders for some large-scale equipment, such as shield machines, have forced all related industries in the mainland to adopt modular designs, with all components shipped separately. Enter the port and assemble it inside the Kubol Gold Mine.
Of course, it's not impossible to transport supplies directly by land, but firstly, being too arrogant will easily attract the attention of Maozi and the United States. Secondly, the hell-level traffic conditions make people very desperate, so they can only make do with it for the time being.
In the past, external material delivery was carried out every four months, but soon after the credit crisis, it became an average of once every 20 days.
Relying on the advantage of being the largest producer of yellow diamonds in the Qinglong Study Group, Chen Yi designed a new amphibious transport ship for them specifically for daily small-batch transportation of materials.
The turtle is seven meters long, three meters wide and four meters high. It has a maximum payload of 68 tons. Its weapons only have two 5.7mm barrels. Its normal speed is 50 kilometers per hour and its maximum speed is 80 kilometers per hour.
The entire ship looks very round, like an oval bowl lid buckled on an air cushion.
At this time, except for the six drivers, there was no one else in the square, and it was like a ghost land.
Except for the open space in front of each pier berth, where turtles came out of various passages and docked at designated locations from time to time, everything seemed so quiet.
There is not a drop of water in the wide channel in front of the four berths in the port. At this time, the water level outside the cliff is still high, several meters higher than the ceiling of the entire port.
Luo Tianyi issued an order to the port control system, and the control system instantly calculated based on the data returned by the external detection device that the sea water outside had begun to ebb.
If these turtles cannot set out in the next six or so hours when the water level drops to an acceptable level, they will have to wait until this time tomorrow.
The six drivers responsible for transporting the gold just put the gold box on the heavy truck into the belly of a turtle with a forklift. This turtle has been marked as a key point in Luo Tianyi's database. It is equivalent to being stamped, reminding the recipient to pay attention to this most valuable item.
The original configuration of these turtles in the Kupol Gold Mine actually included two small-caliber gun barrels and a thousand rounds of ammunition for self-defense, and nothing else.
This kind of firepower configuration is used to defend against some small pirates, but considering that no pirate would be so stupid as to choose to plant a flag in extremely cold waters like the Arctic Circle.
Therefore, the Turtles of the Kupol Gold Mine not only failed to consider a series of designs required for people on the ship, but even the weapon system was completely cut off. Everything was just to increase its load as much as possible. After removing these designs, the load was increased. The price rose to 89 tons.
The six heavy truck drivers finished their work and left the place. At this time, the port area fell into complete silence.
In fact, these six drivers came here for the last time to deliver goods in person. What the port area needs to transport to the outside is some rough-processed minerals.
There are also all kinds of discarded garbage that they can no longer use here. In addition to gold, other precious metal resources are also very rich here.
Since the turtles were deployed in the port area, the management committee has planned to gradually reduce the number of personnel who go to the port to deliver goods in person, and arrange them for other positions that require more manpower.
Nowadays, all the things that need to be transported are loaded directly into the stomachs of turtles within the city, and then the turtles come to the port on their own to wait to go out to sea for a material exchange.
In this case, except for the occasional large batch of material transportation, the port will operate unmanned around the clock.
The advantage of this is to continue to reduce the pressure on space resources in the underground area. After all, the area occupied by various finished ores and waste garbage is still too large.
These products are not helpful to the daily lives of the residents here. The garbage has been used by them n times. It may be possible to continue recycling and reusing in the outside world, but it is no longer possible here.
But these things have to be specially planned and stored in a batch of warehouses, waiting to be cleared and shipped out every four months.
The space resources have been occupied like this, but now that we have turtles, we can continue to exchange supplies on a daily basis, once every twenty days on average.
A 10,000-ton ro-ro ship travels from Bincheng Port to the high seas area of the Chukotka Sea and then returns to Bincheng Port. A round trip takes about forty days.
In the past, due to various restrictions, 40,000 tons of materials were exchanged every four months. Now, 10,000 tons of materials are exchanged every 20 days.
This can keep the backlog of minerals at a very low level, and a large number of idle warehouses can be fully utilized.
Three hours later, the 136th turtle, which was also the last turtle in Luo Tianyi's database to arrive at the port today, had just arrived.
The external water level detection device of the port detected that the external water level had dropped to an acceptable height for the channel, so the time for the turtles to "let out the wind" finally arrived.
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