Chinese shipping companies win large export orders for live fish transport ships

Recently, CIMC Raffles officially signed a contract with a Norwegian shipowner for the construction of four 5000 cubic meter live fish transport ships, and obtained up to six orders for the option of the same type of ship. This is the first live fish transport ship series project from the forefront market of Northwest Europe won by a domestic shipyard.

It is reported that this series of ships is equipped with advanced live fish processing systems, which can meet the operational needs of Norway and the international market for modern and green fishery transportation equipment. It is planned to be delivered gradually in 2029.

The series of ships is planned to be built at Longkou Company, and a large number of bonded materials need to be transferred from Yantai Company, "said Wei Chuntao, the customs manager of the company.

We guide enterprises to apply for the group processing trade supervision mode, which helps to facilitate the free flow of bonded materials within the enterprise group, simplify business procedures, and save operating costs. Yu Xianghua, Deputy Director of the Yantai Customs Office in Bajiao, Qingdao Customs, introduced that in response to the production needs of enterprise orders, the customs will continuously innovate supervision modes to help enterprises solve declaration difficulties.

At the same time, in response to the difficulties in processing trade registration and verification caused by the long construction cycle and complex materials of ships and marine engineering equipment, Yantai Customs has set up electronic account books for each enterprise unit. Through the zoning supervision of imported and domestically produced materials, enterprises can change imported materials at any time during the production process according to progress, and unify the declaration consumption in the later stage, greatly reducing the filing and verification time for enterprises.

Yu Xianghua said that Yantai Customs would continue to optimize marine equipment supervision services in the next step, help ship enterprises reduce costs and increase efficiency, constantly improve the international competitiveness of China's ship enterprises, promote more "Yantai made" marine equipment to go global, and escort high-quality development of marine economy with efficient supervision. (Li Zhen/Wen)