Yantian International set a new world record for a single pier

In August, Yantian International set a new record of monthly throughput of more than 1.42 million teUs, and also set a new record of monthly throughput of a single port in the world, achieving throughput growth for three consecutive months in the forefront of the industry.

How has this port in the east of Shenzhen bucked the trend in the face of the epidemic?

Add 9 international flights in 2 months

Yantian port, one of the busiest container ports in the world, is the hub port of the international container ocean trunk line in South China.There are about 60,000 tons of ruiyuan and Baohui cold storage in Yantian District, and 50,000 tons of cold storage under construction.The import of frozen meat from Yantian Port in 2019 was 720,000 tons, accounting for 12% of the total import of frozen meat in China. It is expected that the import of frozen meat will exceed 1 million tons in 2020.Imported frozen meat is mainly frozen chicken by-products and frozen pig by-products.

With the economic and social development and the improvement of people's living standards, the public's demand for imported low-temperature frozen food is increasing, especially the increasing demand for imported fresh aquatic products, making cold chain logistics enterprises also usher in new development opportunities.During the fight against COVID-19, cold-chain companies played a key role in ensuring stable meat prices and supply in the market.In February, Yantian began exploring the import of aquatic products via bulk carriers, including two batches of tuna totaling 675 tons.It is also the first ocean-going tuna fishing in southern China to enter the country via a maritime port.

Yantian international relevant controller introduces, in the face of the new situation under the influence of the outbreak, yantian international this year to maintain smooth running of efforts to develop the business at the same time, in the first half brace, on the basis of existing routes, July and August, a total of three north American routes, two new European routes, four routes, Asia ascension in Europe and the south China ocean shipping hub port function at the same time, promote the development of the international transfer.

"Straight alongside" can be half an hour customs clearance

With the increasing demand of citizens for frozen products and the increasing international air routes, Dapeng Customs is also constantly optimizing the clearance environment.Take tuna for example.After arriving at Yantian Port, it only takes 30 minutes for tuna to load, weigh and leave the port.From the cargo ship to the freezer, this new mode of customs clearance is called "direct alongside the ship", that is, the owner of frozen goods declared without inspection can directly pick up the goods at the port of the ship and transport them out of the gate."Two-step declaration" eliminates many intermediate links and saves various costs caused by tight berths and high technical requirements of cold chain transportation in busy period.To meet the demand of fresh quality, the port has also increased the towing manpower and vehicles by 50% on the original basis, and the waiting time after unloading the port has been reduced from an average of one and a half days to less than half a day.

In addition, Dapeng Customs adopted various measures, such as increasing inspection staff and extending inspection period, to ensure the smooth inspection in the peak period.In terms of export inspection, the efficient inspection of Dapeng Customs realized zero queuing and zero overstock of goods, which solved the urgent need of export enterprises to "catch the shipping date" and made the goods be shipped for export smoothly.In terms of import inspection, Yantian International cooperated with Dapeng Customs in the rapid construction and use of a new cold chain inspection platform, adding 29 customs inspection stations, so as to better serve the needs of refrigerated container inspection brought about by the epidemic.In August, Dapeng Customs completed more than 10,000 containers of import and export inspection, an increase of 18% over the same period last year.

"The convenience of customs clearance can reduce the cost of shipping companies.As well as the good water depth of yantian port, which can accommodate larger cargo ships.Once many large cargo ships choose Yantian port, they will not easily change the port of call."It has also become a major attraction of Yantian Port, where big Ships have become a daily sight."Industry insiders analysis.

Support shipping companies to open up new routes

It is worth mentioning that the government has also introduced a number of support measures.In May this year, Yantian District published the Measures for Supporting the High-quality development of Key industries in Yantian District (hereinafter referred to as the Measures).The key industries to be supported include shipping and logistics service industry, manufacturing industry, financial industry and trade industry.The reporter sorted out to find that "Support measures" for shipping logistics services related to support the most detailed rules, a total of 11.

It is mentioned in the Supporting Measures that, in order to encourage shipping companies to open up new foreign trade routes, each new foreign trade route added by the shipping companies in yantian Port area can be supported by 1.5 million to 5 million yuan, regardless of whether the registration place is in Yantian.To encourage the development of shipping and supporting services to gather, to carry out ship financing lease, freight futures trading, shipping insurance, ship fuel supply, ship agency, maritime law, the seafarers' training and other related business enterprise, the grant one-time support $500000 to $1 million, three years in a row at the same time according to certain proportion to the enterprise economic contribution award.

In addition, in order to support the development of various modes of combined transportation, such as water-water and sea-rail, support will be given to the increment of throughput generated by the combined transportation of water-water and sea-rail in Yantian Port area at the rate of 15 yuan/TEU -50 yuan/TEU, and one-time support of 1 million yuan will be given to the newly listed inland port which has reached a certain threshold.