Recently, a cargo ship loaded with more than 7,000 tons of finished palm liquid oil berthed at Guangzhou Yihai Grain and Oil Terminal, and after passing the inspection and quarantine of Huangpu Xingang Customs, the goods were cleared and released on the same day.
This time, the freighter had a deep draft, not only to complete the berth during the high tide of the day, but also to leave the port before the low tide of the next day. Guo Wenhua, general manager of Yihai (Guangzhou) Wharf, said, "After the customs learned about our difficulties, the customs arranged customs officers to be on duty in advance, and quickly released the ship after passing the inspection, which not only allowed the cargo ship to leave the port safely on schedule, but also helped us save about 150,000 yuan in demurrage fees." ”
Customs officers of Huangpu Xingang Customs boarded a shipment of imported edible vegetable oil at Guangzhou Yihai Grain and Oil Terminal.
It is understood that the bulk vegetable oil throughput of Guangzhou Yihai Grain and Oil Terminal is huge, but due to the shallow draft of the inland river channel of the Pearl River Estuary, oil-carrying cargo ships need to seize the high tide gap to berth and leave the port, coupled with shipping schedules, terminal scheduling and other reasons, cargo ships sometimes stay in the port for a long time, resulting in higher demurrage charges, increasing the logistics cost of enterprises.
In order to improve the efficiency of the use of ships and berths, and help enterprises reduce costs and increase efficiency, Huangpu Xingang Customs followed up and grasped the arrival time of ships in real time, set up a surprise inspection team for party members, implemented priority inspection and "5+2" appointment inspection, and took the initiative to contact the port company and other relevant units to strengthen berth allocation, reduce waiting time, and ensure the rapid customs clearance of imported vegetable oil.
In view of the problems of large bulk vegetable oil freighters and uncertain shipping schedules, we have formed a linkage effect with Guangzhou Yihai Grain and Oil Terminal, and made efforts in the same direction to ensure reasonable arrangements for berths, seamless docking of cargo ships, inspection and unloading, and reduced the situation of detention and queuing for unloading caused by weather reasons. Gao Yue, chief of the second inspection section of Huangpu Xingang Customs, said, "We strictly check the inspection and quarantine documents, and conduct key audits on enterprise qualifications and plant quarantine certificates, so as to effectively ensure the safe and efficient customs clearance of key livelihood commodities." ”
According to the data, in 2023, a total of 54130,000 tons, a year-on-year increase of 1739%, the customs fast customs clearance service saves more than 1.4 million yuan in demurrage fees for enterprises.
Text Guangzhou** New Flower City Reporter: Lin Lin Correspondent: Pu Xuantu Guangzhou** New Flower City Reporter: Liao Xueming Correspondent: Pu Xuan Guangzhou** New Flower City Editor: Lin Jing.