Smooth flow of goods helps accelerate foreign trade
In the early morning, planes with different airline logos printed on their tail wings took off and landed in an orderly manner at Hefei Xinqiao International Airport, and cargo tractors shuttled back and forth on the apron.
In 2025, the annual total number of inbound and outbound cargo planes at Hefei Xinqiao International Airport will exceed 1000 for the first time, "said Jiang Kaiyuan, Deputy Director of Hefei Customs. Last year, in response to the difficulties of traditional air freight transfer processes and complicated procedures, the customs implemented a new export supervision model of" airside direct access "at Hefei Xinqiao International Airport, optimizing the transportation path of domestic to international goods from" bypassing social roads "to" direct connection within the apron ", and reducing the clearance time for air freight transfer from 2 hours to 15 minutes. International freight routes were the most significant growth point for Wuxuan Airport last year. Last year, Wuxuan Airport opened 5 new international cargo routes to Manila, Clark and other destinations, with a cargo volume exceeding 18000 tons by 2025.
The construction of open channels is a powerful driving force for the development of foreign trade. On November 25, 2025, more than 300 brand new Chery cars were loaded onto ships and sent overseas under the supervision of Wuhu Customs officers under the jurisdiction of Hefei Customs at Wuhu Port International Container Terminal. This scene marked Anhui Province becoming the first province in China to export over 1 million cars annually. Water transportation is the main form of export transportation for Chery Automobile, with about 80% of new energy vehicles exported through Wuhu Port, "recalled Li Jiebin, Director of Resource Management Department of Chery Automobile Co., Ltd. International Company." In the past, when Chery Automobile exported overseas, it had to first transport it by road to Yangshan Port in Shanghai, and then change ships to go abroad. Not only was the transportation cost high, but the customs clearance procedures were also relatively complicated
It is reported that in recent years, Hefei Customs has leveraged its advantage as a "golden waterway" to deepen collaborative supervision with port customs and amplify the effects of regulatory convenience measures such as "linkage unloading" and "direct loading and lifting". By 2025, the "linkage unloading" mode will be used to supervise 20000 container trips. According to enterprise calculations, it can reduce 50% of transfer transportation time and 30% of domestic transportation costs; Using the "direct loading and direct lifting" model to supervise 43000 import and export containers, reducing 90% of the time spent in port.
In terms of land transportation, Jiang Kaiyuan introduced that the "Railway Public Multimodal Transport" westward logistics channel of Wuhu Taqiao Multimodal Transport Base has been opened up, integrating the advantages of large railway transportation volume, low cost, high flexibility of road transportation, and fast turnover to achieve the "one order system" full process connection, providing a new logistics solution for Anhui goods export. At the same time, we will promote the implementation of international cross-border road transport (TIR) business in our province, open up the "fourth channel" of cross-border logistics in our province, and achieve "one declaration, one vehicle to the end, and one certificate to the destination", marking that Anhui's external logistics channel has achieved full path connectivity. In addition, the "Railway Express" model will be comprehensively promoted, and the inspection of goods will be moved from the departure port to the local area, further improving the efficiency of customs clearance. The total number of Anhui China Europe freight trains operated throughout the year has exceeded 1000.
The multi-level and widely covered "water land air" three-dimensional international logistics channel plays an important supporting role in the development of foreign trade. Jiang Kaiyuan stated that Hefei Customs will actively participate in the construction of Anhui Province's major channels and platforms for opening up to the outside world, and take greater efforts and practical measures to promote the upgrading of open platforms and the smooth connection of logistics channels to the world, continuously improving the efficiency of regulatory services.