Fresh blueberries from Yantai are exported overseas (picture)
The picture shows customs officers inspecting fresh blueberries at the packaging factory site, photographed by Zhang Chengmin
In the hot summer season, the blueberry planting base located in Yantai, Shandong Province, has abundant fruits and juicy "sapphires" that welcome the concentrated harvesting season.
Recently, a batch of fresh blueberries weighing about 3.9 tons were loaded onto ships and shipped after passing inspection by Yantai Customs officers under Qingdao Customs, achieving a "zero breakthrough" in the export of fresh blueberries from Yantai Customs' jurisdiction.
Yantai is located in the Jiaodong Peninsula, with a temperate maritime climate, acidic sandy soil, and suitable temperature difference between day and night, which creates a unique quality of compact blueberry flesh, rich fruit aroma, and high anthocyanin content in the local area.
In order to ensure the export of local blueberries to overseas markets, Yantai Customs actively connects with enterprises to understand their relevant demands, extends regulatory services to the fields, and guides enterprises to establish and improve quality and safety management systems from aspects such as agricultural product quality and safety certification and standardization construction, export product quality control, and export country inspection and quarantine requirements, building the first line of defense for export quality.
Previously, we were worried about the complexity of export standards overseas, but the customs provided us with full process guidance from qualification acquisition, field management, workshop processing to customs clearance and export. "said Pang Yuanqing, manager of Yantai Jinguo Agricultural Development Co., Ltd." This year, we successfully won new orders in Southeast Asia and have full confidence in expanding overseas markets. "It is understood that the company's blueberry export orders cover multiple countries such as Malaysia, steadily driving the income and wealth of surrounding fruit farmers.
In response to the characteristics of fresh and perishable agricultural products such as blueberries, we have opened up a 'green channel' for local inspections, continuously compressed customs clearance time, and locked in the fresh quality of fresh fruits. "Zhang Chengmin, Deputy Director of the Inspection Department of the Yantai Customs Office in Zhifu, introduced that the customs has adopted convenient measures such as scheduled inspections and certificate 'cloud issuance' to achieve 'immediate inspection and rapid release', allowing exported fresh fruits to reach overseas markets' fresh '. In the first half of this year, the customs have supervised the export of 117600 tons of fresh fruits. (Han Yunting, Wang Xiaohan/text)