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Category: Ningbo News
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Published: Tuesday, 26 March 2013 16:54
Changes are taking place in the imported fruits markets in Ningbo. Cold chain transportation is under expansion and online shopping of imported fruits turns popular.
It is reported that more and more local fruits wholesalers has been directly importing fruits from the port of Ningbo, since its designation as the open port for fruits import in 2008.
“Differing from the traditional way of importing from Shanghai Port, we’ve been instead importing bananas from Ningbo since 2012”, the manager of an import and export co., Ltd said. He did accounts for this change. “Nearly 2000 yuan of transportation fee from Shanghai to Ningbo can be saved from each TEU, so that the price of imported bananas will be more competitive.”
According to the statistics of Ningbo Custom, the first two months of this year witnessed the increase in quantity and the rise in price. In January and February, 2055 metric tons of fruits were imported from Ningbo, a 1.1 times of increase year on year. ASEAN was the biggest market as regards the import and export trade with Ningbo. The import of banana, fresh longyan, and fresh cherry ranked top three.
“An important factor of the great increase in imported fruits is that the net of cold chain for fresh-keeping is expanded,” said Luo Yingying, a custom officer from custom-clearance center in Ningbo custom.
A local insider doing imported fruits business for years said that in the course of transportation, imported fruits are extremely sensitive to temperature and humidity. During this course, the containers are under special temperature control. Taking banana as an example, it is only the atmosphere of 14 degree centigrade that can guarantee a relatively long-term freshness of it. Currently, fruits imported into Ningbo are basically under the whole-journey management of cold chain, from overseas encasement to domestic distribution.
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Category: Ningbo News
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Published: Tuesday, 26 March 2013 16:53
The number of exit-entry tourists at Ningbo Airport has increased tremendously in recent years. According to statistics of Ningbo Inspection and Quarantine Bureau, it in total quarantined and supervised 1131 exit-entry passenger flights and 147 thousand personnel from January and February in 2013, with year-on-year growth of 38.3% and 33.7% respectively. It is worth noting that this is a continuation of the robust growth of the exit-entry flights in 2012. There were 6366 exit-entry flights and 778 thousand personnel being quarantined in 2012.
Cheap tickets are always snapped up by common citizens who want outbound travels by air. Now Tonlesap Airlines has opened the flights between Ningbo and Siem Reap of Combodia; Eastar Jet of ROK has opened Ningbo-Cheju flights; Jin Air of ROK has opened Ningbo-Seoul flights; and Tai AirAsia has opened Ningbo-Bangkok fights. There are ten international and regional airlines running in Ningbo Lishe International Airport, among which low-cost airlines count for half, presenting a situation where many low-cost airlines vie for the market of international travel chartered flights in Ningbo. Timesaving and cheap international chartered flights are opened up in a large number, which save costs for people in Ningbo and surrounding areas who travel by air, promote the development of the tourism industry and stimulate domestic demands. Meanwhile it lays a good foundation for Ningbo Airport to seek for a differentiated development among the airports in Shanghai, Hangzhou and other cities. According to estivo-autumnal flight scheduling at hand made by various airlines, along with the growth of entry-exit flights such as to Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan and other international chartered flights managed by low-cost airlines, the number of entry-exit flights is expected to maintain a rapid growth.
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Category: Governmental News
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Published: Tuesday, 26 March 2013 16:53
Individual Travels to Taiwan had become the key words on the local micro-blog on March 18. Many netizens forwarded related topics.
At about 8 o'clock that day, Ke Muzhou, who had been authenticated as the general director of Taiwan Travel Association and the convener of Tourism Reception Committee, posted a micro-blog, which said, “Through the consultation of the relevant departments from two sides of the Straits, the number of pilot cities for Individual Travel Program will be increased from 13 to 23.” Ningbo, Wuhan, Zhengzhou and Dalian will be among those cities.
We contacted the city’s tourism department and relevant enterprises for the authenticity of the information spread on the micro-blog. The official in charge from Travel Department said, as for the specific time for the start of Individual Travel Program, “We have not yet received formal notifications from higher authorities, so it is impossible to offer a clear response. However it is very likely that the Individual Travel Program start in the first half of this year.”
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Category: Ningbo District
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Published: Wednesday, 20 March 2013 09:56
News from Fenghua Agriculture and Forestry Bureau, Fenghua will increase efforts to support the building of agricultural products brand this year.
The city encourages the accreditation of agricultural products, granting 50 thousand yuan of awards to the newly certificated national green food and organic food, 30 thousand yuan to newly accredited production area of pollution-free agricultural product, 10 thousand yuan to newly determined national pollution-free agricultural product.
It also encourages the building of agricultural products brands, granting different amounts of awards to newly conferred national brands, provincial brands, and municipal brands according to their levels.
Moreover, it also promotes agricultural standardization construction. It will give an award of 150 thousand yuan to the company that host the formulation and amendment of national level standards, and an award of 20 thousand yuan to those who take part in it. Different amounts of awards will be given according to the levels of formulation and amendment work. As to the companies who apply for the construction projects of agricultural standardization demo area, the city will also give 100 thousand yuan, 50 thousand yuan and 20 thousand yuan of awards respectively depending on it being national level, provincial level or municipal level (besides the projects having been listed as Ningbo municipal level projects).