China News Service, Guangzhou, October 7 (Cai Minjie and Zhu Junkun) Guangzhou Port Group said on the 7th that 21 containers from the Central Asia Express have been shipped out of the second-phase terminal of Nansha Port Area of Guangzhou Port and sent to Indonesia.
For the first time, the Guangdong-Central Asia Express train went to sea by means of "railway-barge transportation-sea" combined iron and water transportation, opening up the "Central Asia-Guangzhou-Southeast Asia" logistics channel.
The goods exported from Nansha Port this time are potash fertilizer imported from Uzbekistan, weighing 1,113 tons and valued at approximately US$128,000.
The cargo departed from Chukulse, Uzbekistan, and was transported to Jiaoxin Wharf in Guangzhou via road transit via Dalang Town, Dongguan City, Guangdong Province, and was transported by barge from Jiaoxin Bonded Warehouse to Nansha Comprehensive Warehouse using the mode of cargo transfer between bonded warehouses. Bonded area.
Complete the one-to-one conversion of bulk cargo from railway containers to sea containers in the comprehensive bonded area of Nansha Port Area, and finally ship to the destination from Nansha Port Area.
According to the relevant person in charge of Guangzhou Port Group, Uzbekistan's potash fertilizer can provide more than 40,000 tons of production capacity for Central Asian producers and Southeast Asian buyers every year.
Guangzhou Nansha Port and Central Asia Express have complementary advantages, and use multimodal transport to extend international logistics channels to provide more cross-border logistics options for countries and regions along the "Belt and Road".
Guangzhou Customs supports the transit transportation of the Central Asia Express, and formulates measures to promote the Central Asia Express to undertake the transfer of air and sea cargo, including allowing enterprises to independently choose customs clearance modes, reducing the number of customs declarations, reducing customs declaration costs, and promoting the development of multimodal transport services.
The cargoes of the Central Asia Express have accumulated 1 hour of customs clearance time in the entry and exit area of the Nansha Port Area, so that the cargo will wait for the departure of the port according to the established shipping schedule.
It is understood that the Nansha Port Area is located in the geometric center of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, close to the main source of goods in the Pearl River Delta. The comprehensive logistics cost for enterprises to import and export through the Nansha Port Area is the lowest. At the same time, the port area has a three-dimensional transportation network such as railways, highways and inland rivers. Seamless connection, with unique advantages of river-sea combined transportation and sea-rail combined transportation.
In the future, the Nansha Port Area will build a distribution center for high-quality goods such as wood, frozen products, plastic pellets, and food, and assume the task of connecting overseas gateway hubs in mainland China.
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