New Year's Journey to the Grassroots: Cold Wind Guards the Pass and Protects the Way, Train Speeds Ahead to Embark on a New Journey (Image)

The picture shows Liu Bing (left) and colleagues verifying the seals of transit cargo containers. Photo by Li Lin

In the middle of winter, Qingdao Port in Shandong Province, the cold wind carries the scent of the sea across the dock, and container cranes shuttle back and forth in the twilight.

Batches of ocean shipping containers crossing the sea have been accurately lifted onto railway cars. Soon, they will leave the country with the Central Asia Express through Alashankou Port, cross the mountains and seas to Kazakhstan, adding fuel to the "the Belt and Road" trade in the New Year.

Director Liu, our batch of car parts are rushing to be shipped on the Central Asia train, and the documents have been submitted through the online system. Can we review them as soon as possible? "Wang Xin, the manager of the customs declaration department of Shandong Luqiao International Freight Forwarding Co., Ltd., urgently called the Logistics Supervision Department of Qingdao Dagang Customs under Qingdao Customs.

Liu Bing, who answered the phone, is a veteran who has been deeply involved in the supervision of transit goods for many years. At this moment, he was staring at the screen of the customs supervision system, his fingertips jumping on the keyboard, and in no time, he skillfully completed the online document review and data comparison. There's no problem with the documents. Once the goods arrive at the port, we will arrange for inspection and verification, which will not delay the connection of the train

Hanging up the phone, Liu Bing and his colleagues quickly walked towards the open-air container stacking area. In the cold wind, they bent down to compare the box codes, checked the information box by box, and carefully checked the integrity of the seals, afraid of any omissions.

This seal is the 'safety lock' of the goods, which must be intact and have completely consistent codes to ensure that everything is safe during transportation, "Liu Bing instructed his colleagues while bending down to wipe the signs on the box that had been eroded by the sea breeze. After confirming that all the information was correct, he signed and released it on the inspection record.

In 2025, Central Asian trade will continue to thrive, and enterprise orders will pile up. We have already optimized the regulatory process and achieved direct shipping of shipping containers onto railways. "Facing the cold wind, Liu Bing's voice was slightly hoarse." In rainy and snowy weather, the labeling of the container body is easy to blur, so we have to repeatedly wipe and confirm, and every step cannot be taken lightly

In order to further improve efficiency and reduce enterprise costs, Qingdao Dagang Customs integrates customs supervision, port scheduling, and railway transportation resources, innovatively promotes the sea rail intermodal mode, eliminates the need for transit container exchange, and saves the entire logistics cost for enterprises.

Watching the containers successfully entered the train and the train was about to leave, Wang Xin could not hide her joy: "This efficient intermodal mode is too awesome! The turnover efficiency of our goods has been greatly improved, and the order volume of Central Asian customers has also been growing at a high speed."

Data is the most intuitive proof of trade vitality. According to statistics, the volume of transit cargo containers in Central Asia at Qingdao Dagang Port will exceed 17000 TEUs by 2025, a year-on-year increase of 221%. The strong growth momentum has further tightened the trade between China and Central Asian countries, demonstrating the solid achievements of the construction of land sea intermodal transportation channels.

The cold wind still blows, and my original intention is like a rock. A series of Central Asian trains loaded with goods slowly drove out of the port of Qingdao, carrying the good hope of jointly building the "the Belt and Road", speeding forward in winter, adding a different spirit of striving to the Spring Festival, and also injecting a constant momentum of development into the "the Belt and Road" trade. (Li Lin/Text)