The quality defects exist in the traditional design of the port outdoor pipeline project，such as wide land occupation，much excavation，easy damage to pipelines，poor maintenance of pipelines and ditches and wells in the later stage. The traditional scheme will have a serious impact on the operation efficiency and personnel safety of the automatic container. We introduce the design concept of“unified planning，unified construction and unified management”of the urban utility tunnel，put forward the combining the characteristics of the layout and pipeline distribution of the storage yard of the automated container terminal general design scheme of the utility tunnel for the port combining with the characteristics of the layout and pipeline distribution of the storage yard of the automated container terminal，and verify the scheme by engineering cases. The results show that the proposed scheme can effectively save land resources，and it is also convenient for later management and maintenance.