State Council approves the opening of Meishan Port
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- Category: Ningbo District
- Published: Tuesday, 20 March 2012 13:14
The State Council approved the opening of the Meishan Free Trade Port Zone and the No.2 berth in Beilun Port of Ningbo Port, according to news from Meishan Port on March, 14.
The approved open areas are along the 27 kilometers of coastlines along Meishan Island, including the No.1 to No.5 quay berths for containers as well as the first two multi-functional quay berths.
It generally took one and a half hour to inspect every foreign ship because of the limitation of temporary opening since its operation from August of 2010. The approval of official opening could decrease the time to one hour, saving several hundred U.S. dollars each ship according to the current cost standard.
As the fifth national Free Trade Port Zones, Meishan Port is the core area of the demonstration region for the development of maritime economy in Zhejiang and the Zhejiang provincial industries clustering zone with the most marine features. As one of the officers in the Administrative Committee of Meishan Port put it, the opening of the port could become an impetus to the development foreign trade and port logistics. Therefore, the official opening of Meishan Port will give full play to the preferential policies enjoyed by the port and thus drive the development of such marine industries as international logistics, international trade and coastal tourism, etc. around the port areas.
It is introduced that the approval of the State Council will involve the following matters: the opening of the ship routes and the water-land transshipment, the setting of the inspection institution, the staffing level and extent of power for administrative examination and approval etc. Moreover, the related software and hard ware will also been constructed as soon as possible
