China News Service, Xinjiang Qinghe, April 4 (Liu Jinrui Yerken Zahepal) Recently, Xinjiang Takshiken Port’s import and export data for the first quarter of this year was released. According to statistics, its import and export goods reached 693,300 tons, a year-on-year increase of 28.77%, and its import and export trade volume was 914 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 3.04%. Among them, 672,800 tons of coking coal were imported, a year-on-year increase of 26.92%, and the export volume and trade volume achieved double growth.
In the first quarter of this year, Xinjiang's Takshken Port's import and export cargo volume and trade volume achieved double growth. The picture shows Qinghe County Lihao International Trading Co., Ltd. loading daily necessities for export to Novosibirsk, Russia. Photo by Liu Jinrui
Takshken Port is located in Qinghe County, Altay Region, Xinjiang, adjacent to Khovd Province, Mongolia. It is a first-class land port in China and the largest port open to Mongolia in Xinjiang, China. From 2013 to 2023, the port's import and export volume ranked first among the 15 highway ports in Xinjiang for six consecutive years, and ranked first among the four ports with Mongolia in Xinjiang for 11 consecutive years. It is China Unicom's domestic port, through Mongolia and China Unicom. It is a road port with the shortest transportation distance and the best foundation in Russia and integrated into the Siberian Railway.
In the first quarter of this year, Xinjiang Mengke Energy Technology Co., Ltd. also completed the import of 679,000 tons of coking coal with the help of the port. The company's public relations manager Gao Haoqin said: "Since the port opened a green channel for corporate customs clearance, we have imported more than 207 coking coal vehicles in a single day, laying a solid foundation for successfully completing the company's annual production and operation goals." He said, next In the next step, the company will increase investment in vehicle transportation capacity and strive to achieve another increase in coking coal imports.
As coking coal processing companies such as Xinjiang Mengke Energy Technology Co., Ltd. and New Taipei Coal Industry Co., Ltd. have been established and gradually grown, the Takashkent Port has introduced companies such as Xujie Solid Waste and Yuanheng Zhengda to process coking coal waste after washing. Coal gangue processing and electric coal processing have basically formed a coking coal import processing industry.
Qi Weijiang, director of the Office of the Takshken Port Management Committee in Xinjiang Altay Region, said that in order to consolidate the good momentum of import and export growth at the Takshken Port, the Port Committee actively coordinated with various units and opened a green channel for bulk energy products for customs clearance by appointment, optimizing the The customs clearance process ensures that imported mineral products companies can achieve "zero delay" in policy fulfillment. (over)