Recently, a shipment of 168 tonnes of goods departing from Onne Port in Nigeria to Nansha Port in Guangzhou arrived at Chenzhou Inland Port via sea-rail intermodal transport service. This marked that Chenzhou Inland Port has achieved two-way operations of intermodal transport supervision model for import and export goods, effectively reducing the burden on foreign trade enterprises while enhancing their efficiency.

Trade with Africa is an important sector of Chenzhou's foreign trade, with logistics efficiency and costs directly impacting industrial competitiveness. The new customs supervision model adopts the "multimodal transport declaration form," enabling import and export enterprises to achieve "a single customs declaration with a single transport document." This significantly streamlines declaration procedures, reduces transit time, and lowers logistics costs, truly realizing seamless connectivity of the sea-rail intermodal transport.

In January of this year, Chenzhou Land Port became the first in the province to implement the new customs supervision model for sea-rail intermodal transport of export goods. With the recent implementation of this model for import goods, Chenzhou Land Port has established itself both as a vital hub for Hunan products going global and a fast track for overseas goods entering Hunan. This development has further opened up international logistics channels for Chenzhou, laying a solid foundation for the sustained, high-quality growth of the local open economy.

This article is from the Hunan Provincial Government www.enghunan.gov.cn.

Translator: Xiao Juan

Chinese source: hunantoday