China News Service, Shanghai, September 12 (Chen Jing and Ye Zhenyu) The Luhuashan anchorage is the only water area in Shanghai Port with semi-submersible operating conditions, and it is also one of the important passages for China's marine engineering equipment to go to the world.
The reporter learned on the 12th that under the escort of the whole process of "production-flag change-trial-ship-delivery-exit" by the Shanghai sea inspection agency, in recent years, the road for China's offshore engineering equipment to be transferred out of the Luhuashan anchorage has been smooth all the way: docked at Lingang. All 13 drilling rigs worth over RMB 10 billion at Waigaoqiao Offshore Engineering Terminal have been cleared; this year, high-end offshore equipment such as large floating oil and gas production platforms, floating production storage and offloading platforms have successively entered the world stage and participated in the global compete.
Typhoon "Meihua" is approaching Shanghai.
The reporter learned on the 12th that the Yangshan Frontier Inspection Station of the Shanghai General Inspection Station rushed to the Luhuashan anchorage 35 nautical miles away from the duty point to urgently go through the border inspection and customs clearance procedures for two large-scale domestic marine engineering equipment to ensure that the two semi-submersible ships and the carrying The goods left the country in time before the typhoon "Plum" affected Shanghai.
Soon, the Chinese semi-submersible ship "Hua Ruilong" pulled its anchor and sailed to the destination port. The semi-submersible ship "Amethyst" registered in the Marshall Islands also carried the "Guoshuo" oil and gas drilling platform to the operating waters.
It is reported that the National Immigration Administration has issued a series of measures, clearly "supporting international voyage ship repair and shipbuilding enterprises to enhance their competitiveness", and to promote the development of shipping enterprises with services.
Frontier inspection agencies provide necessary convenience for personnel to get on and off foreign ships and for ships to board foreign ships, shorten the inspection time as much as possible, improve the efficiency of on-site production operations, and increase new competitive advantages for enterprises.
The "Hua Ruilong" on its maiden voyage is an 80,000-ton semi-submersible ship, which is a semi-submersible ship with no conventional forecastle and four-island design.
The "Guoshuo" oil and gas drilling platform, which went to the far sea for exploration, is one of the mainstream jack-up drilling platforms in the world, and its equipment is at the international leading level.
The border inspection department maintains close contact with the relevant shipbuilding enterprises and ship agency enterprises before the ship leaves the country for delivery.
Photo courtesy of Yangshan Border Inspection Station
According to the introduction of Yangshan Frontier Inspection Station of Shanghai General Inspection Station, large-scale marine engineering equipment is characterized by large volume, heavy weight, many delivery links, and is greatly affected by factors such as weather.
The station maintains close contact with relevant shipbuilding companies and ship agency companies before the ship leaves the country for delivery, grasps the dynamics of flag changing, delivery and outbound delivery of offshore engineering equipment, and understands the needs of personnel to work with the ship and to write off when they leave the ship. The team established a "one-to-one" exit guarantee mechanism.
Before the arrival of the typhoon, the border inspection staff responded to the ship's request for changing the departure time in a timely manner, and carried out border inspection in a flexible way: for the crew of the "Guosuo" drilling platform, the remote video inspection of the anchorage was carried out and the witness at the dock was compared. Complete the verification and write-off procedures for all personnel leaving the ship in a combined way; for the Huaruilong "semi-submersible ship" and 31 staff who left the country with the ship, the procedures were carried out by moving the window forward and boarding the ship on site to ensure that the inspection process is strict and the ship Sail safely.
For the offshore manufacturing industry, these convenient measures in customs clearance have saved a lot of costs for enterprises.
"Hua Ruilong" ship agent Xiao Lu, a field officer of Shanghai Haiteng Shipping, said: "The immigration police boarded the ship to go through the border inspection procedures, which avoided us going back and forth twice, thinking about what the company thinks, and worrying about what the company needs. Directly The service arrived on the ship, and the exit procedures were completed as quickly as possible before the typhoon came, which provided strong support for the safe sailing of the ship, and avoided the loss of sheltered sailing time for about a week for the ship owner.” (End)