Qingdao seafood is popular in Europe
Recently, in the production workshop of Qingdao Ocean Brothers Seafood Co., Ltd., workers are systematically cleaning, sorting, and packaging a batch of narrow cod. Under the supervision of Qingdao Dagang Customs officers under Qingdao Customs, this batch of products is about to be shipped to EU countries such as Germany and France.
Currently, whether in chain supermarkets in Germany, seafood restaurants in France, or fresh markets in the Netherlands, frozen squid products, cod slices, simulated crab meat and other seafood products from Qingdao, Shandong are abundant and popular among local consumers.
EU consumers highly recognize the quality and safety of our products, and the order volume has been steadily increasing. The EU market has become one of the most core overseas markets, and our aquatic products have a better reputation in the EU market. "Liu Qinglong, General Manager of Qingdao Ocean Brothers Seafood Co., Ltd., said that in the first 11 months of this year, the company exported approximately 49 million US dollars worth of aquatic products to EU countries, a year-on-year increase of 23%.
To ensure that the aquatic products exported by enterprises to Europe comply with EU food safety standards, Qingdao Dagang Customs focuses on the core demands of enterprises to "grab orders, maintain freshness, and expand markets", breaking through export bottlenecks layer by layer, providing precise services to help enterprises cope with technical trade measures, relying on intelligent supervision to improve customs clearance efficiency, and helping export enterprises steadily deepen their cultivation in the European market.
We have formed a special team composed of business backbones and technical experts, and in accordance with the core standards of the European Union, we have gone deep into aquatic product processing enterprises. From the layout of production workshops and the improvement of quality system documents to the optimization of raw material acceptance, self inspection and self-control processes, we have carried out a full process' hands-on 'guidance to help more enterprises win recognition in the European market with excellent quality, "said Zhang Huijun, head of the Inspection and Quarantine Department of Qingdao Dagang Customs.
The freshness of aquatic products directly determines market competitiveness, and customs clearance efficiency is the key to maintaining freshness. Qingdao Dagang Customs focuses on "fast inspection and release", compressing circulation time by optimizing processes. Fully implement the "green channel" for fresh and perishable agricultural and food products, combined with convenient measures such as "advance declaration", "appointment inspection", and "immediate release upon inspection", to compress the inspection operation time to within 2 hours and significantly reduce product loss during transit.
We have established a cross departmental collaboration mechanism to implement 'priority approval, priority inspection, and priority certification' for key products such as cod products and fish mince products, ensuring that the products reach the European terminal market with the best quality and seizing market opportunities for enterprises, "said Yuan Tao, Deputy Director of Qingdao Dagang Customs.
Our frozen squid products and cod fillets are seasonal orders with high timeliness requirements. Now that we have a 'green channel' for aquatic products, customs clearance time has been reduced by nearly half. Our products can seize the fresh market in the EU in the first time, "sighed Liu Qinglong.
Next, Qingdao Dagang Customs will continuously optimize policy guidance, intelligent supervision and other full process services, fully break down trade barriers, and allow more high-quality Chinese aquatic products to enter the European market. According to statistics, in the first 10 months of this year, Qingdao exported aquatic products to EU countries worth 2.5 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 27.5%. (Wang Xiaomin, Wang Fengzhen/text)