Dual improvement of vitality and efficiency at Tongjiang Port

Recently, the floating box ice channel from Tongjiang Port to Nizhny Khoye Port in Russia was officially opened, achieving seamless cross-border transportation in winter. Located at the forefront of opening up to Russia, Tongjiang City is anchored in the positioning of "open Tongjiang, international Tongjiang", with channel construction as the foundation, service optimization as the key, and economic and trade expansion as the wing. It deeply integrates into the revitalization strategy of Longjiang and has delivered a brilliant answer to the northward opening up. In recent years, the cumulative import and export freight volume of ports in the city has exceeded 15 million tons, becoming a core hub for Sino Russian trade.
The channel level continues to rise, and the four season clearance network takes shape. Relying on the first cross river railway bridge between China and Russia, Tongjiang City has built a "smart mining+smart inspection+smart control" regulatory system empowered by technology. Customs has put into use the first intelligent mining and sampling equipment for mineral products at national railway ports, reducing the operating time of single trains in extremely cold environments from 4.5 hours to 30 minutes and improving efficiency by 89%; Establish the first copper powder testing laboratory in Heilongjiang Province, innovate the "8-hour rapid testing release" mechanism, and shorten the testing cycle from 3 to 7 days to 1 day. As of December 9th, the annual freight volume of railway ports has exceeded 6 million tons ahead of schedule, setting a record. The whole train release time of China Europe freight trains has been reduced to 2 hours, and 3 to 4 trains enter and exit the country steadily every week. On December 10th, the autumn hovercraft passenger transport came to an end. Compared with the spring season, 272 people were guaranteed clearance, an increase of 160%. In addition, the newly opened floating box ice fixing channel formed a four season clearance pattern of "railway, hovercraft, and floating box ice fixing" in parallel.
Accurate service to alleviate difficulties and continuously optimize the business environment. Tongjiang Customs has established a 24/7 consultation hotline, answering nearly 20 inquiries from enterprises per month, deepening the mechanism of "customs officials delivering policies to the doorstep", and accurately pushing policy dividends such as tax incentives and RCEP rules. In May 2025, guide Jiamusi's first cold chain bonded warehouse to be put into use, and reduce the burden on enterprises through policies such as "tax deferral" and "full import and zero export"; Led the solution to the difficult problem of transporting more than 20 leased trade export agricultural machinery back into the country, avoiding losses of over 2 million yuan for the enterprise. This case was rated as a typical example of optimizing the business environment at the provincial level. With the support of policies, local Hezheyuanpeng Technology's snowmobile has successfully entered the Russian market.
Breakthroughs have been made in multiple areas of economic and trade cooperation, and the dimension of openness continues to expand. At the 34th Harbin International Fair, Tongjiang signed 6 cross-border cooperation projects, with on-site sales reaching 300000 yuan; From January to November 2025, canned beef and Chinese medicinal herb "Bai Xian Pi" from Belarus will be imported for the first time, opening a new path for agricultural and medicinal trade between China and Russia. The throughput of water transport ports will increase by 64% year-on-year. The "9610" cross-border e-commerce model achieves "instant customs clearance", and packages can reach overseas consumers within 6 days; The China Europe freight train promotes the export of domestically produced new energy vehicles and the import of high-quality materials from Europe, and the two-way trade pattern continues to prosper.