During the National Day holiday, others are busy traveling, but here we are busy "shipping"! Batch after batch of domestic products such as lamps, clothing, and shoes have been inspected and loaded into containers, departing from Shenzhen Yantian Port and bound for global markets such as the United States, Mexico, and the Netherlands. Now that it is the peak export season, Yantian Port has launched the "non-stop operation during the National Day holiday" mode, pressing the "acceleration button" for domestic products to go overseas.
Lamps, clothes, shoes...these domestic products are queuing up to go overseas.
Walking into the export inspection field of Shenzhen Yantian Port, the staff were busy inspecting, transporting and loading and unloading the goods.
What are these goods? Where are you going?
According to customs staff, the export goods currently inspected are mainly daily necessities, including various lamps, clothing, shoes, etc. After inspection, the goods will be shipped to all parts of the world by sea.
As an important gateway for China's import and export trade and one of the world's largest single container terminals, Yantian Port regularly operates more than a dozen cross-border e-commerce express lines and 38 sea-rail combined transport lines. It currently has 20 large container deep-water berths, which can meet all-weather two-way navigation of ultra-large ships of 200,000 tons and a maximum load capacity of 24,000 TEUs.
The routes cover major global trade regions such as North America, Latin America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Southeast Asia. With stable timeliness, tight schedules, and fast customs clearance, it has become an important channel for many domestic products to go global.
This year, there are also new changes in the export of domestic products: more categories, a higher proportion of self-owned brands, and faster delivery time requirements. Yantian Port’s efficient shoreline unloading and speedy customs clearance services are a perfect match for this wave of sea-going craze.
“No closing time” during National Day
They chose to stay in Yantian Port
The fourth quarter is the traditional peak season for stocking in overseas markets, and Yantian Port is in the critical window period for export freight throughout the year. In order to ensure the smooth export of all kinds of domestic products to the sea, operations at Yantian Port will not stop during the holidays and logistics will not stop.
Li Yunfan is a customs worker from Tianshui, Gansu Province. During this year’s National Day holiday, he chose to stick to his post. Like him, colleagues from Shandong, Sichuan and other places also stick to the business site, follow the inspection instructions, do a good job in verifying export goods, and ensure the smooth operation of goods export supervision.
The front-line operation team at the terminal is also simultaneously adhering to their posts and dynamically replenishing positions. They allocate manpower according to the daily inspection workload of the customs and cooperate with the customs inspection work to ensure that the inspection process is promoted efficiently without disconnection or delay. For example, if 30 containers need to be inspected the next day, the terminal will arrange corresponding personnel to assist customs inspections based on workload.
Maintaining efficient and smooth ports is inseparable from the multi-party linkage and coordinated efforts of customs, maritime affairs, border inspection and other units. Comprehensive manpower support and full-chain service upgrades effectively ensure the efficient overseas export of domestic products during the holidays. During the National Day, the customs will also provide manpower support to ensure the smooth flow of declaration and consultation services during the holiday.
Shenzhen: Export containers in the first eight months were 4.6 million TEUs
A year-on-year increase of 7.5%
The busyness of the port also reflects the vitality of foreign trade.
Shenzhen Customs data shows that in the first eight months of this year, Shenzhen’s total import and export reached 3.99 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 35.2%. Among them, exports were 2.07 trillion yuan, an increase of 15.6%; imports were 1.92 trillion yuan, an increase of 65.5%. Yantian Port exported 4.6 million TEU containers, a year-on-year increase of 7.5%.
From the inspection of each domestic product to the loading of containers one by one, Yantian Port was still busy during the National Day holiday. The ever-increasing efficiency of customs clearance and the continuous expansion of global routes are allowing more domestic products to leave the Greater Bay Area and sail to the global market faster.
