2007年8月31日星期五

Improved gate system speeds up customs clearance

On the afternoon of August 17 ,many freight drivers in Yiwu International Logistics Center slept on the ground,stripped to the waist .“I must take the time to rest as much as possible,because I have to be on the road again in moments,”said Fu Zhi jian,a freight driver from Anhui Province who has run Yiwu-Ningbo line for over five years ,adding that lots of time was wasted previously in waiting for customs clearance during the six hours from Yiwu to Ningbo .

According to Fu,the improved function of the second-generation gate system saved half of the time . Besides,the efficiency of declaration form delivery has been improved by five times,making the goods going through the customs procedures exported two hours earlier every day . As a result,the customs clearance environment of Yiwu International Logistics Center as well as its work effi ciency has been greatly promoted .

“With the upgraded system,the Customs have realized a dynamic configuration of human resources for declaration form examination, making it possible for us to well arrange the time and workers to examine the declaration forms,thus enhancing the operation efficiency,”said an officer in Yiwu Office of Jinhua Customs . According to his introduction,the upgraded system is able to display dynamically the information of customs declaration,providing convenience for customs officers to master the destination, process and number of the current customs declaration.

According to sources,a customs declaration with all ready documents for import or export took 12 seconds to be turned in with the previous system,which has been shortened to less than 2 seconds with the new one .

Presently,Yiwu Customs Office handles about 700 customs declarations on average every workday . That is,a total of two hours have been saved every day on this procedure for the goods to be exported . “After the upgrade of the system,containers even do not need to stay on the inspection lot of the International Logistics Center . Everything from sealing and locking to departure will be finished within one minute,”said Ji Weida,a worker in Yiwu International Logistics Center,adding that the stockyard of the center can deal with over 9 0 0 containers smoothly everyday,without a moment of crowded situation.

But previously,only 500 containers every day would make the stockyard very crowded . Master Xiang is an employee in Ningbo Hengsheng Logistics Co . ,Ltd,whose workshop lies on the opposi te side of the center’s exit,bringing him a bird’s eye view of the trucks moving to and fro .“Due to the previous low speed in handl ing the procedures,the freight trucks outside the logistics center often lined up to shape a traffic stream more than a kilometer long,which created terrible traffic jam for the ordinary vehicle s .The situation became even worse after 4 :3 0 p . m. ,when usually over 50 trucks queued up, starting from the Airport Road to the Capital Goods Market,covering two crossings,”said Master Xiang when talking about the current situation satisfactorily,adding that the traffic jam could hardly be found from the beginning of July .

  The improvement and upgrade of the gate system of the second generation have shortened the time of response from the Customs,inspection field ,and enterprises waiting for customs clearance,thus accelerating the flow of information,promoting the operation of logistics,and further ensuring the faster and better export of Yiwu small commodities .

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