China Blue News: In January and February, the export of Ningbo's cross-border e-commerce special supervision area exceeded 1.5 billion yuan, ranking first in the country

Correspondents Du Yuhan and Zhu Wei report

At the checkpoint of Meishan Comprehensive Bonded Zone in Ningbo, a continuous stream of container trucks loaded with cross-border e-commerce goods were seen. The system automatically identified and lifted the poles for inspection, and the entire process took less than 10 seconds. Behind this is the powerful practice of Ningbo Customs in continuously promoting innovation in regulatory service models through digital reform, injecting new momentum into the high-quality development of cross-border e-commerce. According to statistics from Ningbo Customs, in January and February, the export value of overseas warehouses in Ningbo's cross-border e-commerce special supervision area reached 1.52 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 87.5%, ranking first in the country.
In the warehouse of Ningbo Yaji Logistics Co., Ltd., workers are placing cross-border e-commerce packages on the shelves in batches. These goods will be declared, inspected, and packed in one go in the comprehensive bonded area warehouse, and then sent overseas. The average clearance time has been reduced from 3 days to within 1 day, and there is no longer any worry about missing the shipping schedule, "said Li Feng, the person in charge of Ningbo Yaji Logistics Co., Ltd., unable to conceal his joy.
As the "main force" in Meishan Comprehensive Bonded Zone's cross-border e-commerce export business, the convenient experience of Yaji Logistics comes from the precise policy implementation guidance of Ningbo Customs. Meishan Customs, a subsidiary of Ningbo Customs, has arranged dedicated personnel to guide enterprises in optimizing the setting of supervision workplaces and innovatively launched the "inspection first, shipment later" export pre warehouse supervision model. Enterprises can move the sorting and packaging processes that were originally completed in overseas warehouses to the domestic comprehensive bonded area. Before the goods arrive at the port, all customs clearance processes can be completed in one stop in the warehouse, effectively avoiding the pain points of "repeated unpacking+shipping delay" in the traditional mode, greatly improving logistics efficiency, and reducing enterprise operating costs.
After the efficient circulation of goods in the warehouse, how to smoothly exit the area and quickly load the goods onto the ship has become the key to connecting the "last mile" of logistics. In January and February of this year, Meishan Port completed a container throughput of 2.4166 million TEUs, a year-on-year increase of 18.44%. Faced with the explosive growth of cargo flow brought by the "ten million level" container throughput in Meishan Port Area, Ningbo Customs continues to optimize the construction and management of checkpoints, and innovate the classification and grading mode of checkpoint passage. By categorizing and loading control parameters for release orders, differentiated inspection measures are implemented for goods of different risk levels, resulting in a 25% increase in the speed of cross-border e-commerce export goods entering and exiting checkpoints.
At the same time, Ningbo Customs fully leverages the advantages of Meishan Comprehensive Bonded Zone's "integration of district and port", synchronizing the release data of customs supervision work sites to the checkpoints of the Comprehensive Bonded Zone. After hardware upgrades and optimization of image recognition functions, the recognition rate of vehicles and containers has been significantly improved, and the average card passing time of vehicles has been reduced from 30 seconds to about 10 seconds, providing solid technical support for the deepening of the "district port linkage" mode.
From the warehouse to the checkpoint, the acceleration and efficiency of every link cannot be achieved without the strong support of digital platforms. The innovative "Enterprise Data Master Responsibility+Customs Embedded Supervision" model launched by Ningbo Customs is injecting "smart momentum" into cross-border e-commerce exports. Relying on technologies such as the Internet of Things and big data, the integrated management information platform of the comprehensive bonded zone is fully integrated with the enterprise warehouse management system (WMS), achieving automatic data capture and real-time comparison of the entire process of goods entering, storing, and leaving the zone, and seamlessly embedding customs supervision into the daily business processes of enterprises.
At Ningbo Longfei Logistics Co., Ltd., the customs declarer pointed to the screen and said, "Previously, declaration required manual double checking, but now the system completes it automatically, reducing the time from nearly 20 minutes to about 2 minutes and improving efficiency by nearly 90%. The platform now integrates various business data from customs, enterprises, and local governments, like a 'regional cockpit'. We can track logistics trajectories in real time, grasp warehouse status, go from 'manual review' to 'system verification', and from 'enterprise errand' to 'data trail'. We have truly felt the convenience brought by intelligent supervision." Now, with the continuous improvement of platform functions, Meishan Comprehensive Bonded Zone is gradually realizing information intensification and logistics visualization within the zone, creating a more efficient environment for enterprises. Efficient and convenient customs clearance environment.
Every micro innovation in regulatory service models gathers into a powerful driving force for the development of foreign trade. Ningbo Customs is writing the answer to the era of safeguarding high-quality development with the stroke of institutional innovation. Ji Zhou, the head of the Comprehensive Business Department of Meishan Customs, said, "Ningbo Customs will focus on trends, respond to demands, solve problems through reform, and provide warm services to fully protect the 'Ren Du Er Mai' of the industrial chain and supply chain, and contribute indestructible customs strength to the new development pattern