The invention discloses a container wharf operation and management method. Fields of the method comprise a wharf front edge, a buffering region, a pit road and a storage yard; a shore side bridge crane is arranged on the wharf front edge, and the buffering region is provided with horizontal lifting equipment; the pit road is provided with a collection card; and the storage yard is provided with a storage yard gantry crane. The method comprises box unloading operation, box loading work and outer card collection work; when the shore side bridge crane carries out box unloading operation, the shore side bridge crane places cargoes in the buffering region; when a free collection card arrives, a container is placed on the collection card through the horizontal lifting equipment to finish the whole box unloading task operation; when the box loading work is carried out, the collection card directly places the container on the buffering region after reaching to the wharf front edge, and then leaves away; and when the shore side bridge crane comes to take the container, the horizontal lifting equipment is used for transporting the container to the position needed by the shore side bridge crane. According to the container wharf operation and management method, under the condition of increasing the least cost of the existing container wharf, the loading/unloading efficiency of a container task is improved, and the operation difficulty of wharf workers is reduced at the same time.