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Import commodity center in Ningbo Meishan Free Trade Zone opens

On December 26, two German-made Artega sports cars arrived at Meishan. "China has imported only five Artega sports cars and the two here are of the last batch of the cars of Artega. Each car values over 2 million yuan," said Cai Cai, responsible person of the center of the company of imported cars of Meishan. On December 28, the center of imported cars opened in Ningbo Meishan Free Trade Zone. The two sports cars are the first two cars appearing at the center.

On the same day, opened the import commodity center in Ningbo Meishan Free Trade Zone. With a gathering of over 6,000 varieties of imported commodities of cars, food and household necessities in the center, the people can buy imported commodities at reasonable prices in Ningbo.

The center of imported cars is on the first floor of the trade building of Ningbo Meishan Free Trade Zone, covering an area of 3,000 square meters. Here, the center will provide customers with one-stop services of imported cars.

"Now, the people of Ningbo don't have to go to such cities like Tianjin or Shanghai to buy imported cars," said Cai Cai. Since there are fewer intermediate links and less transport cost, some imported cars are over 100,000 yuan cheaper than the cars on the regular markets.

On October 25, the finished car import port of Ningbo Meishan Free Trade Zone passed the acceptance examination of the State Council and became the only finished car import port of Zhejiang. By the end of 2013 the first batch of imported cars will arrive at Meishan, and with this, the over 3,000-sq-me center of imported cars will open in the international trade building of Ningbo Meishan Free Trade Zone.

On December 28, the center of imported commodities on the 2nd floor of the building opened. The center of imported commodities is 3600 square meters in area. It has commodities imported from over 20 countries and regions including USA, Japan, Canada, France, UK, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Belgian, Australia, New Zealand, Chile, Brazil, South Korea, Malaysia, Hong Kong and China's Taiwan.

Oil tanker collides with cargo ship enroute between Ningbo and Busan

The blaze on oil tanker Maritime Maisie. Photo: SCMP
 
 
A Hong Kong-registered oil tanker was reported to have caught fire after it collided with a cargo ship in waters off Busan, South Korea, early yesterday morning.
 
At about 2.15am, South Korean time, oil tanker Maritime Maisie, which weighs more than 29,000 tonnes, collided with the 55,000-tonne freighter Gravity Highway.
 
The Gravity Highway was on a test run in waters about 9.2 nautical miles off the southeastern port city of Busan.
 
According to South Korea's Yonhap news agency, the impact caused two of the 20 chemical containers on board the tanker to go up in flames.
 
The South Korean authorities deployed 16 coastguard boats, some navy vessels and helicopters to the scene for rescue.
 
Firefighters brought the blaze under control at about 10am. About 4,000 tonnes of the chemicals paraxylene and acrylonitrile were lost in the blaze.
 
All 27 crew members on the tanker were rescued by the South Korean coastguard. Some sustained light burns or abrasions, but none were seriously injured.
 
The cargo vessel, which had 64 crew members on board, also caught fire, but it was quickly extinguished. The vessel was then towed to a nearby shipyard.
 
Yonhap quoted South Korean officials as saying the coastguard would move the rest of the chemicals and fuel from the tanker to another vessel before towing it. They said there is a risk it will split in two and sink as the crash left an eight-metre hole on one side and it is tilting at a 20-degree angle.
 
South Korean officials said they were investigating the cause of the crash. A spokesman for Hong Kong's Marine Department confirmed that the locally registered ocean-going tanker was loaded with chemicals while sailing to Ningbo from Busan. All 27 people on the vessel were rescued, he added.
 
SOURCE: scmp.com

Ningbo specialty agricultural produce popular at Shanghai Agricultural Fair

2013 Zhejiang (Shanghai) Agricultural Produce Fair kicked off on December 20. Several thousand kinds of products from nearly 1000 agricultural enterprises in Zhejiang Province were exhibited at the Shanghai Everbright Convention & Exhibition Center. Over 1000 kinds of specialties from 93 leading agricultural enterprises or farmers’ professional cooperatives were displayed at the fair.

Agricultural products from Zhejiang Province, especially from Ningbo, have been loved by the people of Shanghai, and it has been the 11th year for the annual Zhejiang (Shanghai) Agricultural Produce Fair to be held.

At about 9 am, the fair started. The 93 booths for Ningbo specialties located on the second floor of the convention and exhibition center attracted a large number of local residents. An Uncle Zhao, at his late 50s, who was a local resident with Ningbo origin, was reminded of his childhood in sight of the organic food at the booth of Ningbo Tianyuan Organic Food Co. Ltd. "The sweet potato slices are so crisp that it is exactly the same taste as those I ate as a child." It is said that such Ningbo enterprises as Maoqing and Tianyuan focused on the "traditional crafts" brands and promoted the hand-made sweet potato slices and dry rice cakes that were popular with the Shanghai citizens.

At the fair, Ningbo Mingfeng Fishery Co. Ltd. held a promotion meeting for its soft-shelled turtles on the morning of December 20. Finally, over 30 dealers from Shanghai signed on the scene a distribution agreement with the company.

Landmark building to be set up in Damu Bay area

A 100-meter landmark building will be set up in the New Town of Damu Bay area in Xiangshan County. Recently, a contract has been signed by Shanghai Greenland Group to start the construction of a commercial building, with a total investment of nearly four billion yuan, including high-end office buildings, service-oriented apartments, theatres and commercial and supporting facilities.

It is reported that this project by Shanghai Greenland Group is the 18th major project that settles down in the New Town of Damu Bay area. So far, there have been construction projects by such high-end enterprises as China Railway construction Corporation, Shanghai Shimao Group, Potevio, CAAC, Hong Kong Tomson Group, Shanghai Cherish-yearn Co. Ltd. and Hong Kong Ever-rich Group, covering such fields as residence, commerce, office, travel, entertainment, shopping and education.

Port of Ningbo to handle 16 million containers

According to Ningbo Port Co., Ltd., by December 13, the Port of Ningbo has handled 16,040,000 standard containers, up by 6.7% year on year.

Despite the flagging global economy, and the slumping situation of the shipping market home and abroad, Port of Ningbo still holds its advantageous position. It has made great efforts to explore the inland market, and optimized the feeder lings. This year, the integrated railway and shipping transport reaches 100,000 standard containers. Meanwhile, Benefitted by the favorable policy of expanding the domestic demand and maintaining the steady growth, the Port of Ningbo further enhanced the freight transfer platform, explored the inland river shipping, so as to expand the business of container shipping for domestic trade.

In this year, Port of Ningbo further adjusted the layout of the shipping lines, giving priority to Ningbo Port. By the end of November, Ningbo Port has 234 container shipping lines, including 117 international ocean-going lines. These measures have strengthened the position of Ningbo Port as an international pivotal port.

This year, the Port of Ningbo has steadily improved its services. From January to November this year, of the 10 container ports of the world that Maersk takes, Port of Ningbo ranks No.1 for its efficiency.

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