China News Service, Shanghai, March 8 (Chen Jinggongxing) Reporters learned on the 8th that in the first two months of 2024, the Shanghai Waigaoqiao Port Area Haitong International Automobile Terminal (hereinafter referred to as: Waigang Haitong Terminal) imported and exported nearly 220,000 vehicles, a year-on-year increase of nearly 8%.

In the past two months, the Waigaoqiao Border Inspection Station inspected nearly 140 ro-ro vessels for international voyages carrying imported and exported complete vehicles, a year-on-year increase of nearly 10%.

　　Nowadays, new energy vehicles, lithium batteries, and solar cells have become the "three new items" of foreign trade exports, and their performance is very impressive.

The popularity of new energy vehicles overseas has injected new momentum into the quality and upgrading of Shanghai's foreign trade.

Police from Waigaoqiao Border Inspection Station boarded the new ship to conduct hull inspection.

(Photo courtesy of Waigaoqiao Border Inspection Station)

　　On March 6, the Panamanian "Diamond Elite" ro-ro, carrying more than 2,900 cars of multiple brands, departed from Shanghai Waigaoqiao Port.

It is understood that the Waigaoqiao Immigration Inspection Station proactively provides front-line services, optimizes the handling process, and fully implements online forecasting and pre-inspection of international sailing ships. Through online processing, advance processing, etc., it provides "zero waiting" for international sailing ships arriving at the port and departing from the port. Hong Kong’s “zero-delay” customs clearance service.

With the support of convenient measures for border inspection and customs clearance, the ship quickly completed the loading and unloading operations and headed to the Middle East.

　　It is understood that in 2023, the number of inbound and outbound (port) ro-ro ships at the Outer Port Haitong Terminal will exceed 800, and nearly 3,000 vehicles will sail from here every day to more than 100 countries and regions around the world.

Xi Jialin, executive director of the marketing department of Waigang Haitong Terminal, said: "Shanghai Immigration Inspection Agency's 'non-sensory inspection and release' has greatly improved the import and export efficiency of the terminal's complete vehicles, saving enterprises more than 1,000 hours of production and operation time throughout the year, and saving terminal berth fees. , fuel costs, labor costs and other economic costs are tens of millions of yuan."

　　It is reported that the "no-sensory inspection and release" mentioned by Xi Jialin is the "zero wait" and "zero delay" inspection and release measures for international cargo ships arriving at the port implemented by the Waigaoqiao Border Inspection Station.

This move has further accelerated the reengineering of the inspection process, continued to optimize the port business environment, and allowed international sailing ships to pass customs "without any sense".

With the help of this measure, the Waigaoqiao Border Inspection Station will ensure smooth customs clearance for 24,000 port entry and exit (port) ships and 506,000 passengers in 2023, accounting for approximately 58% and 56% of the total volume of Shanghai Port.

　　During the interview, the reporter learned that after the Spring Festival, there is a strong demand for the transportation of soybeans, corn, wheat, edible oil and other livelihood supplies.

The buzzing roar of loading and unloading machines can be heard everywhere at Shanghai Liangyou Terminal, which is responsible for the import, unloading and transit transportation of national policy grain and oil and trade grain and oil.

At Liangyou Pier, the "Adventurer" is loading and unloading.

(Photo courtesy of Waigaoqiao Border Inspection Station)

　　At about 3 a.m. on March 2, the "Adventurer" ship from Australia docked at Waigaoqiao Liangyou Pier.

With the blessing of the "green channel" opened at the Waigaoqiao Border Inspection Station, the freighter quickly cleared customs and more than 50,000 tons of wheat were quickly transported to a special storage warehouse.

Through measures such as forwarding services and compressing customs clearance time, the "green channel" opened by the Waigaoqiao Border Inspection Station for bulk commodities, fresh products, people's livelihood supplies, etc. directly guarantees the efficient customs clearance of such inbound and outbound (port) ships after arriving at the port. , rapid operation, helping people’s livelihood materials to be received and unloaded safely and quickly, and supplying market demand in a timely manner.

　　According to statistics, in 2023, a total of 80 inbound and outbound (port) ships at Liangyou Terminal quickly loaded and unloaded cargo through the "green channel", a year-on-year increase of approximately 145%; the actual unloading of grain and oil was 2.8795 million tons, a year-on-year increase of approximately 171%.

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