Sea rail intermodal transportation helps accelerate the export of inland goods overseas

Recently, a batch of sea rail intermodal trains carrying automotive parts, Baigou bags and other goods departed from Hebei Beijing Xiongbao International Smart Port and headed south directly to Qingdao Port. Under the supervision of Huangdao Customs under Qingdao Customs, the customs clearance procedures were successfully completed and the ships were loaded and shipped overseas.

Under the new mode of sea rail intermodal transportation, the three-level cargo collection channels of 'county+venue+port' are efficiently connected, completely solving the problems of scattered shipments, cumbersome logistics, and high costs for our small and medium-sized foreign trade enterprises. The logistics cycle is greatly compressed, the products go abroad more smoothly, and the international competitiveness of enterprises is also enhanced! "Chu Yixiao, the person in charge of Baoding Taitong International Transportation Company, praised the convenience brought by the new mode endlessly.

The new model of sea rail intermodal transportation mentioned by Chu Yixiao is the pilot of the import and export multimodal transportation (sea rail, water and water) business model officially launched by the General Administration of Customs on January 27th this year. The new model fully replaces traditional customs declaration documents with a "multimodal transport application form", breaking down the barriers of segmented declaration and segmented supervision in the past. It embeds customs supervision throughout the cross-border multimodal transport process, truly achieving one declaration, one order connection, and one box to the end, simplifying the customs clearance process, compressing the transit link, and reducing the comprehensive transportation cost of enterprises from the root.

Since the implementation of the new model, Huangdao Customs has promoted the establishment of an efficient linkage mechanism for cross regional collaborative supervision, data exchange, mutual recognition of supervision, and mutual assistance in law enforcement. It fully leverages the advantages of Qingdao Port as the "Northeast Asia Shipping Center" and the Shanghai Cooperation Demonstration Zone as the "International Logistics Hub", continuously optimizes customs clearance processes, solves transit obstacles, and helps inland characteristic products efficiently go global.

We connect with logistics companies in advance, grasp the train operation plan and cargo information, and rely on the international trade 'single window' to achieve real-time data transmission across customs zones. After completing one customs declaration and one inspection at the inland customs, the goods are circulated with intact commercial seals throughout the process. After arriving at Qingdao Port, there is no need for secondary declaration, repeated inspection, or transit, and they can be directly 'loaded into the port and loaded onto the ship in the original container'. The transportation efficiency is increased by more than 40% compared to the traditional mode, and the logistics cost of a single batch is reduced by about 20%, "said Zhang Lin, Deputy Director of the Port Supervision Department of Huangdao Customs.

Data shows that from January to April this year, Huangdao Customs supervised a multimodal transport container volume of 1.039 million TEUs, a year-on-year increase of 6.3%. (Bi Wenbo/Wen)