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As a "world supermarket" that does not rely on the border or the sea, how can Yiwu expand its opening to the outside world, efficiently allocate resources from countries along the "Belt and Road", and deeply integrate into the global economy? The answer is: to go eastward to the sea, connect with the Maritime Silk Road, build the "Yiyongzhou" open channel, promote the integrated development of Yiwu International Dry Port and Ningbo Zhoushan Port, and create the "sixth port area" of Ningbo Zhoushan Port.

Today, Yiwu, Ningbo, and Zhoushan are now connected through the "Yiyongzhou" open channel. This major channel is supported by Ningbo Zhoushan Port, Yiwu Land Port, Yongjin Expressway, and Jinyongzhou Railway. It runs from the river to the inland, from sea to land, and connects the inland and sea ports, leaving the country to the west and going to the sea to the east.

Container sealing volume increased by 30% year-on-year

Recently, in Yiwu Port, container trucks loaded with cargo shuttled among them, creating a busy scene. The big screen of the Yiwu Port Smart Logistics Platform shows the real-time number of container trucks entering and leaving the warehouse on the same day, and each truck can track the entire trajectory; in the adjacent direct warehouse area, the goods are piled up in mountains, and the staff are sweating and diverting packages. ...

"If you leave at 3 pm, you will be able to arrive at the terminal at around 5 o'clock." Shi Pengxing, a long-time transporter, told the author. Just after receiving the customs clearance information on his mobile phone, he will be able to drive out of the customs supervision point of Yiwu Port to the Beilun Port Area of Ningbo Zhoushan Port in a short while.

"Di, Di, Di..." In the warehouse of Yinghe International Logistics Co., Ltd. at Yiwu Railway Port, a digital parcel sorting machine runs at high speed. The parcels on the conveyor belt are scanned and weighed by the "Dragon Gate", and they are sorted accurately. The five pallets arriving in the country outside the country are then loaded into the container for short barge to the sea-rail combined transport delivery site.

"Every week, more than 20 containers are transported to Ningbo Zhoushan Port by sea-rail combined transport, and then transported to Los Angeles in the United States using the "market procurement + Mason Express" model. Basically, they can arrive in 11 days and arrive at the port 24 hours. The cost of internal customs clearance and delivery is only 1/3 of air freight." said Cheng Keyuan, the person in charge of Yinghe International Logistics Co., Ltd.

Statistics show that one out of every seven heavy containers in Ningbo Zhoushan Port last year came from Yiwu. In the first half of this year, the "Yiwu-Ningbo" sea-rail intermodal train shipped 27430 TEUs of heavy containers, an increase of 115.3% year-on-year. The volume of container closures in Yiwu Port increased by 30% year-on-year. The proportion of bills of lading in the whole logistics of sea-rail combined transportation increased from 17% last year to 35% in the first half of this year. The volume of empty containers entering the yard and the volume of returned containers doubled. .

Free trade zone boosts the development of sea-rail combined transport

As an important window of my country’s international trade, Yiwu has been associated with 2 million small, medium and micro enterprises across the country, and has trade relations with more than 230 countries and regions. Yiwu’s export containers account for about 1/7 of the export weight of Ningbo Zhoushan Port. It is Ningbo Zhoushan. The port is an important source of goods and "overland bridgehead". Ningbo Zhoushan Port has an important position in the "One Belt, One Road" initiative, the joint construction of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, and the integration of the Yangtze River Delta.

After the expansion of the Zhejiang Pilot Free Trade Zone to Yiwu, the member units of the Yiwu Free Trade Zone Transport Freedom Class worked together to think, plan, and promote the "Yiwu-Ningbo Zhoushan Port" sea-rail combined transportation in a "breakthrough" spirit. Quality development, "CMA CMA", "Photovoltaic" and "Asterisk" achieved success in the process of "breaking"; "market procurement + general trade" LCL export, general trade transit export, and "bonded transit export + A breakthrough was made in the trade model of “market procurement” LCL export.

At the beginning of this year, the "CMA CMA CGM" sea-rail international combined transport train carrying 90 TEUs of export goods departed from Yiwu West Railway Station to Ningbo Zhoushan Port. Following the "CMA CMA CGM", the "Yiwu-Ningbo Zhoushan Port" and "Photovoltaic" sea-rail intermodal trains and the "Yiwu-Ningbo Zhoushan Port" cross-border e-commerce sea-rail special trains opened again. These export commodities have enjoyed the integration convenience brought about by the construction of the "Sixth Port Area". They are directly loaded at Ningbo Zhoushan Port and exported to Europe, Africa and other regions across the ocean.

Shipping giant's tentacles stretch to Yiwu

From multiple shipping companies to one shipping company's special train, from the port to the inland, with the help of the Yiyong Boat’s opening of the large channel and the west extension operation, shipping giants have extended their tentacles to the hinterland of central Zhejiang and directly come to Yiwu to set up points and groups. , Which includes the world’s third largest container liner company-CMA CGM (hereinafter referred to as "CMA CGM"). In 2003, CMA CGM set up the only branch in Yiwu county-level city nationwide, and took root in the Yiwu market ever since. At present, the “CMA CMA CGM” sea-rail intermodal train has been successfully upgraded from “Monthly shift” to “One-week shift”, and it has realized the seamless connection of Yiwu’s issuance of the entire bill of lading (containment, packing, customs clearance). Improve the efficiency of export customs clearance and reduce transportation costs.

In fact, in international trade practices, whoever owns the ocean bill of lading issued by the shipping company owns the ownership of the goods carried by the shipping company, and all port operations will also be extended from this ocean bill of lading. For this reason, whether a city’s name will appear on the bill of lading issued by a shipping company becomes an industry indicator of whether a city is truly a port city. As the world’s third largest container liner company, “CMA CGM” recognized the status of Yiwu Inland Port, which will undoubtedly drive other shipping companies to extend their business to Yiwu. This will help build Yiwu International Dry Port into an inland logistics hub, Ningbo Zhoushan Port. The work goal of the "Sixth Port Area" has very important practical significance.

According to incomplete statistics, currently 7 shipping companies have set up branches in Yiwu, 20 shipping companies have carried out container return business in Yiwu, 6 shipping companies have carried out booking business in Yiwu; 5 shipping companies have started to issue bills of lading in Yiwu Business, four shipping companies are carrying out multimodal transport business in Yiwu. Among them, there are many shipping giants such as COSCO, CMA CGM, Maersk and Mediterranean.

At present, Yiwu is strengthening strategic cooperation and in-depth integration with Ningbo and Zhoushan, making every effort to promote the construction of major infrastructure such as the Jinyongzhou Railway, and developing multimodal transportation such as rail-sea combined transport and road-rail combined transport. Among them, Yiwu (Suxi) International Hub Port, as an important project of Yiyongzhou's opening of the main channel to the west, is expected to start construction in the second half of this year. The project uses the concept of "Customs Supervised Wharf" to carry out the functional layout, realizes the rapid transit between dry port and sea port through railway, promotes the extension of CCA in the hinterland, and realizes the forward movement of the functions of "port, customs, and shipping" , To build Yiwu into the "sixth port area" of Ningbo Zhoushan Port, providing strong support for the "One Belt One Road" initiative, "Yangtze River Economic Belt", "Yangtze River Delta Integration" and other national strategies.