On August 31, the wide-gauge loading ceremony for the dedicated railway line in the Horgos Comprehensive Bonded Zone was held. The successful shipment of this train marked the official opening of the dedicated railway line in the Horgos Comprehensive Bonded Zone. It is understood that the train was fully loaded with 234 tons of oil drill pipes worth US$570,000. It departed from the wide-gauge special line in the Horgos Comprehensive Free Trade Zone and was destined for Turkmenistan.
This move is an extension of the Horgos Customs affiliated to Urumqi Customs to assist in promoting the "standard gauge to broad gauge" project in China. It is also a pragmatic measure to actively promote the "Smart Customs Powerful Nation" action and the construction of smart customs, which will drive railway port transportation. Performance is further improved.
The dedicated railway line project is a vivid epitome of Horgos' efforts to develop the trade logistics industry and promote the construction of a port logistics hub. It has achieved a smooth connection between the Horgos Comprehensive Bonded Zone as the starting station and Kazakhstan's rail transportation network. The Comprehensive Bonded Zone Goods can be exported directly through the "standard-gauge to broad-gauge" model. Horgos customs, railway and other departments met with the Kazakh side many times, and the Kazakh side agreed to use wide-gauge empty trucks to transport goods, and jointly promoted the implementation of the "standard-gauge to broad-gauge" model, which not only greatly improved transportation efficiency, but also greatly improved logistics The environment has been effectively improved, while also saving corporate costs, improving empty truck utilization and transportation efficiency, and providing strong support for sustainable economic development. It is understood that after the special railway line is put into normal operation, one train of 50 cars can be organized and shipped every day.
Mahati Maujik, chairman of the Horgos Asia-Europe Coconut Import and Export Co., Ltd., which is responsible for this export business, said: "The opening of the dedicated railway line in the Comprehensive Bonded Zone has reduced the transportation costs of enterprises and strengthened the confidence of enterprises in development. Adopt Wide-gauge loading not only has many types of vehicles, but also provides flexible shipping. After the goods are declared in the zone, a shipping plan can be submitted, which greatly shortens the logistics transfer time, opens up the logistics channel from the factory to the consignee's warehouse for foreign trade, and improves competition in the domestic product market. force."
In order to ensure the smooth customs clearance of this cargo, Horgos Customs actively contacted the company, mastered the departure plan in advance, assigned business backbones to guide the company to make good use of the preferential policies of the comprehensive bonded zone, and adopted "7×24 hours" customs clearance service measures to ensure that the goods arrived as soon as possible. Check and release after inspection.
Lu Wangsheng, deputy section chief of the Third Section of Customs Supervision in Horgos, said that the export of goods through the dedicated railway line in the Comprehensive Bonded Zone provides a new exit method for the export of goods and expands new ways of cross-border transportation. At the same time, the use of wide-gauge return empty trucks to load goods will help improve the overall efficiency of cross-border transportation.
As the first company to settle in the Horgos Comprehensive Bonded Zone, Xinjiang Zhaofenghe Biotechnology Co., Ltd. mainly imports barley and other raw materials from Kazakhstan for production and processing. Currently, the first phase has built a feed production line with an annual output of 150,000 tons. The opening and operation of special railway lines not only adjusts and optimizes the transportation structure, better plays the backbone role of railways in the comprehensive transportation system, solves the "last mile" problem of railway transportation, reduces logistics transportation costs, and also drives Enterprises in the industrial chain develop together to promote the transformation of local resource advantages into economic advantages and achieve a win-win situation for all parties.
Guo Haisen, deputy general manager of Xinjiang Zhaofenghe Biotechnology Co., Ltd., said: "We are an agricultural and sideline products import and processing enterprise in the Comprehensive Bonded Zone. We need to import 200,000 tons of barley, linseed and other agricultural and sideline products from abroad every year. The special railway line in the Comprehensive Bonded Zone The opening can reduce logistics costs, greatly improve loading and unloading efficiency, and further release enterprise production capacity. We will make full use of the dividends brought by the comprehensive bonded zone railway dedicated line to enterprises to help the high-quality economic development of Horgos."
In the next step, Horgos Customs will continue to improve port customs clearance efficiency, promote the high-quality development of foreign trade at Horgos Port with the help of China-Europe freight trains, cross-border e-commerce and other open platform carriers, and help Horgos Port build a fully functional and modern port. A land border port-type national logistics hub.
