In the first eight months, the export cargo volume of Alashankou port increased significantly, up 28.1% year-on-year
Tianshan Net News (Reporter Chen Qiangwei) The reporter learned from Alashankou Customs: In the first eight months, the import and export freight volume of Alashankou Port was 15.529 million tons, an increase of 5.7% year-on-year. Among them, the export freight volume achieved a substantial increase, an increase of 28.1% year-on-year. On September 13, the on-site customs officers of Alashankou Customs were conducting on-site inspections of the container cargo carried by the China-Europe freight train. Photo by Correspondent Qu Rui In recent years, with the deepening of the "Belt and Road" construction, the infrastructure of Alashankou Port has been continuously improved, the customs clearance capacity and the level of customs clearance facilitation have been significantly improved, effectively ensuring that railway, highway, pipeline transportation and other businesses are The port is efficient and smooth. In the first eight months, the largest mode of transport for import and export cargo volume at Alashankou Port was railways, followed by pipelines and highways. The import and export freight volume of railway transportation was 7.879 million tons, an increase of 8% year-on-year, of which the import freight volume was 5.494 million tons, an increase of 2.2% year-on-year, and the export freight volume was 2.385 million tons, an increase of 24.2% year-on-year; the import and export freight volume of road transportation was 180,000 tons. , an increase of 124.7% year-on-year, of which export cargo volume increased by 121% year-on-year. Li Hongfeng, chief of the first section of comprehensive business of Alashankou Customs, said that from the data of the first eight months, more and more enterprises choose the China-Europe freight train as a mode of transportation for import and export, and the most imported commodities mainly include agricultural products, metal ore, chemical fertilizers And so on, exports are mainly clothing, textiles, lithium-ion batteries and other commodities. Since the resumption of import business at road ports, the volume of export freight has grown rapidly, which also provides more logistics options for foreign trade enterprises to export goods.