China News Service, April 3 (Chen Jing, Zhou Xiaodong, Huang Bo) The implementation of "zero waiting" for customs clearance procedures for ships on international voyages can effectively increase the turnover rate of Shanghai Port’s containers; the promotion of Internet "single window" platform declarations can help Inbound and outbound cargo planes save an average of 40 minutes of customs clearance time...

　　The reporter was informed on the 3rd that the Shanghai Municipal Inspection Authority fully implements ten new measures to promote the construction of shipping hubs in the Yangtze River Delta, continuously optimize the customs clearance inspection model, and take the initiative to provide front-end services to help speed up the flow of empty containers at the port and speed up the entry of goods through customs.

　　It is reported that due to the impact of the spread of the epidemic, overseas ports have frequently halted work and production, and shipping companies have been stagnating a large number of containers overseas, unable to vacate them and return them, making it difficult to find a container for domestic foreign trade exports.

Since the second half of last year, shipping companies and ports have adopted a series of measures such as rushing to produce new containers and adjusting containers along the route.

A cargo plane parked on the apron of Pudong International Airport is waiting for loading. Photo by Dong Quanhui

　　The Shanghai border inspection agency reduced the time for customs clearance to boost the flow of empty containers at the port and effectively alleviate the problem of "difficulties in using containers" for enterprises.

According to statistics, in the first two months of 2021, the Shanghai Municipal Inspection Authority has provided services to guarantee the import of nearly 1.4 million foreign trade empty containers to Shanghai Port, helping to meet the strong export demand of domestic foreign trade enterprises.

Manager Xi, who has more than 20 years of operating experience in the terminal company, told reporters in an interview: “Effective measures such as frontier services by border inspection agencies and online pre-inspection can save about one hour of customs clearance time for each container ship on average. About 600 empty containers can be unloaded in one hour."

　　On March 31, the Liberian ship "Mediterranean Bari" carrying 14,000 TEUs slowly berthed at the third phase of Yangshan Port.

This 150,000-ton-class large container ship is loaded with more than 1,700 empty containers, which can alleviate the "near thirst" for empty containers in the market.

Before the arrival of the ship, Shanghai’s inspection agency actively contacted the shipping agency to make an online pre-inspection declaration in advance. At the same time, it used border inspection data analysis to complete the ship’s trajectory verification and crew itinerary, so as to grasp the ship’s epidemic prevention and crew health in a timely manner. situation.

After the ship arrived at the port, the Shanghai Municipal Inspection Authority quickly handled the side inspection procedures for the "Mediterranean Bari" ship to ensure that the ship was cleared with "zero waiting" and empty containers were unloaded with "zero delay".

　　Recently, the Suez Canal was stranded, causing the world's busiest maritime trade route to be interrupted.

The "butterfly effect" caused by the accident has brought a new impact on the container shipping market that has just stabilized. A large number of cargo ships cannot turn around, and the "container shortage" that has tended to be eased has revived.

Affected by this, foreign trade companies began to seek alternatives: choose land logistics systems such as China-Europe Express, or switch to aviation logistics.

Recently, the international cargo and mail throughput of Pudong Airport has been operating at a high level.

On the 31st, a KZ225 all-cargo plane carrying more than 100 tons of cargo arrived at Pudong International Airport. Before the arrival of the flight, the border inspection staff had already completed the electronic declaration procedures for it through the Internet "single window" platform. After the arrival of the cargo plane , The first time for the flight and crew members to go through immigration clearance procedures simultaneously.

　　"Through the Shanghai'single window' border inspection aircraft declaration platform, flight entry and exit information can be submitted online, reducing round-trip travel, and an aircraft can save an average of 40 minutes of customs clearance time. This effectively improves the punctuality of cargo flights and international Cargo transfer efficiency.” Air freight forwarder Ms. Zhou introduced.

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