Overseas Fresh Flavor Cross border Direct Delivery to the United States: Fresh Clawed Lobster Arrives in Ningbo

Recently, with the stable landing of cross-border cargo flights and the opening of cargo holds, a batch of imported crayfish from the United States were unloaded in an orderly manner and quickly cleared customs before being sent to Ningbo and surrounding areas.
Since the beginning of this year, a series of ocean going specialty aquatic products have landed one after another, including fresh, sweet, and delicious crayfish, plump deep-sea green crabs, agile and fresh eels, and silver pomfret with transparent scales. They have directly reached people's dining tables from overseas fishing grounds, locking in the freshness of the ocean to the greatest extent possible and allowing consumers to easily taste them at their doorstep.
As an important fresh food import gateway in Zhejiang, Ningbo Airport Port has opened 9 international freight routes, covering core production areas such as Southeast Asia and North America, and has built a "transcontinental direct and regional coverage" fresh logistics network.
Nowadays, the efficiency of fresh food clearance and circulation at Ningbo Airport is getting higher and higher, saving us a lot of waiting time, maximizing the freshness of crayfish, reducing cargo loss, and helping us seize market opportunities, "said Li Yue, the person in charge of Hubei Haikui International Trade Co., Ltd.
In response to the characteristics of easy consumption and high timeliness requirements of fresh products, the Ningbo Airport Customs under Ningbo Customs has precisely optimized the full process supervision services. Based on the arrival rules and transportation characteristics of inbound fresh food flights, a dedicated person has been arranged to fully coordinate flight landing information, meet the customs clearance needs of import enterprises for contract flights, carry out unified appointment overtime, and handle procedures in a centralized manner, building an efficient customs clearance mode of "coordinated scheduling and rapid inspection and release", so as to accurately link the pace of supervision services with flight operations, achieve "zero waiting" for customs clearance, and protect the freshness of goods to the greatest extent possible, adapting to the market demand for fast entry and exit of fresh imports.
According to statistics, in the first four months of this year, fresh food imports at Ningbo Airport Port experienced a strong outbreak, with import value exceeding 200 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 10.5 times.
Next, Ningbo Airport Port will continue to improve its international freight route layout, optimize fresh food customs clearance and logistics distribution facilities, smooth the global fresh food import air fast channel, better meet domestic consumer demand, and promote the continuous improvement and expansion of airport fresh food import trade.