Article source: Shenzhen Customs
Recently, Shenzhen Customs launched 20 measures to optimize the business environment, and carried out a four-month special action to promote cross-border trade facilitation, including a series of scientific and technological innovation means in the construction of smart customs to help foreign trade maintain stability and improve quality, and press the "Acceleration Key" for the smooth speed of customs clearance for enterprises.
The "Direct Load and Pickup" of import and export goods in cross-border trade is a powerful measure to strengthen scientific and technological empowerment and create convenient and customs clearance services for import and export enterprises.
Due to the characteristics of maritime logistics mode, the time for goods to go through customs clearance procedures at the port is usually measured in "days", imported fruits and other products with high timeliness requirements such as demurrage for a long time are likely to lead to poor quality, and export goods may also be unable to board the ship as scheduled due to factors such as production arrangements.
In order to improve the efficiency of cargo clearance at sea ports, Shenzhen Customs uses technology and information technology to carry out the business of "direct delivery alongside the ship" and "direct loading upon arrival" relying on the "advance declaration" mode. Import and export enterprises can carry out business declaration in the "i deep pass", after submitting basic information such as goods and logistics, the customs and dock enterprises can simultaneously review and confirm according to the business situation, and feedback the specific way of delivery/return, to achieve "one application, synchronous confirmation, fast handling". At the same time, import and export enterprises can also know the progress of business processing in time by associating mobile phone numbers and email addresses, reducing communication costs and improving business handling efficiency. In the first half of 2023, Shenzhen's sea ports supervised a total of 13,000 TEU of imported goods "Direct Pickup Alongside Vessels" and export goods "Direct Load upon Arrival at Port".
In addition, Shenzhen Customs also plans to build a maritime service platform for enterprises, promote the sharing of ship dynamics and arrival and departure information with port terminals, provide customs clearance logistics process status inquiry, paperless management and other services, so that "Intangible Data" can connect the "Tangible" needs of enterprises, shipping agents and cargo owners from "Personnel Running" to "Data Running". Achieve import and export goods customs clearance "Transformation".
Since its full launch in April 2022, the Shenzhen Air Logistics Public Information Platform has provided functions such as customs clearance, logistics and government services for various aviation related entities, combined customs clearance resources and logistics resources, realized the integration of "Customs Clearance + Logistics" business processes based on electronic waybills, and better served the flow of factors and the development of aviation formats in the Bay Area.
It is understood that airlines, shipping companies and other subjects can achieve free data exchange transmission services through the platform, import customs declaration and other types of customs clearance documents online in batch, inquire the status of the "Customs Clearance + Logistics" chain of important links, and also transact inspection appointments and reminders. In these paperless processes, the efficiency is effectively improved, the number of manual errands is greatly reduced, the manpower and material resources of the enterprise are saved, and the "One entry, One Single Multiple Report, One Station Acquisition" of the air transport business is achieved, and the data transmission is facilitated, the data chain is visualized, and the supervision service is facilitated.
At present, Shenzhen air logistics public information platform is building version 4.0, through continuous expansion and upgrading, "Tailored" for the enterprise to add inspection report query and other service functions, when the enterprise through the detection number, mobile phone number can easily query the detection progress.
