Ningbo becomes import base for rice from Thailand
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- Category: Ningbo Business
- Published: Tuesday, 01 September 2015 08:26
Ningbo citizens will have the opportunity to buy the fresh "Thai rice". On the morning of August 24, a container ship docked at the Daxie Wharf of Ningbo Port of, and a large bridge crane lifted the container full of rice imported from Thailand from the ship to the truck, marking both the overall opening of the "COFCO Express" and the establishment of the import base for farm produce from Southeast Asia.
Based on the four Southeast Asian shipping routes, two from Thailand to China, one from Burma to China, and the other one from Cambodia to China, the "COFCO Express" is able to increase the weekly container volume of the imported rice from 960 cases to 1900 cases.
In October 2014, Ningbo Port was approved as one of the first designated rice import ports by the State Bureau of Quality Inspection. After the farm produce are imported, they can be shipped to the markets in East China by land, and can also be shipped to other ports along the Yangtze River by water.
According to Hong Qihu, Director of Business Department of China Port Co. Ltd., at first the monthly delivery of the imported rice from Thailand to Ningbo via the "COFCO Express" stands at 3000 tons on average, accounting for over 20% of the Thai rice in Ningbo market. After becoming the new import market for the COFCO, Ningbo will become a more important import crop distribution center in East China.
