Meishan Customs opens
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- Category: Ningbo District
- Published: Monday, 06 January 2014 22:32
Meishan Customs opened on December 28. Lu Ziyue, Vice Secretary of Ningbo Municipal Party Committee and Vice Mayor of Ningbo, and Ye Ping, Chief of Ningbo Customs unveiled the plaque of Meishan Customs.
Meishan Customs is subordinate to Ningbo Customs. Its jurisdiction is the administrative area of Meishan Island in charge of the customs businesses. In March 2009 the preparatory office of the customs opened and since then, it has given support to Ningbo Meishan Free Trade Zone in its application for the business of imported finished automobiles, and its effort to develop the businesses of international allocating and special warehousing and so on. Statistics from the customs show that in the first 11 months in 2013, the transaction volume of import and export cargo in Ningbo Meishan Free Trade Zone amounts to 3,672,000 tons, valuing 11.6 billion US dollars. The containers handled amount to 1 million TEUs, and the total number in the year is estimated to be over 11 million TEUs. Breakthrough is made in the import of finished cars. On December 30 the first batch of imported cars arrived at Meishan. In only half a year, over 10,000 Emgrand EC7 of Geely were exported at the port of Meishan.
Wang Jianshe, Secretary General of Ningbo Municipal Government, attended the opening ceremony.
