Gansu's first batch of "National VI" emission standard vehicles successfully cleared customs in Lanzhou Dry Port

On December 16, the first batch of vehicles imported by Lanzhou International Port District Investment and Development Co., Ltd. landed under the supervision of Lanzhou Customs, which is the first batch of imported vehicles operated by Lanzhou Automobile Import Port after passing the acceptance, and it is also the first parallel import vehicle business clearance of the "National VI" standard in Northwest China this year, and it is also the first batch of imported vehicles in Gansu Province, ending the history that the import of vehicles in Gansu Province must be transferred from coastal ports.

The first batch of imported vehicles started from Duisburg, Germany, carrying China-Europe express trains from Dorset, and after customs clearance, they were transported in groups to Lanzhou Dry Port. The whole process runs for 18 days, which is about 30 days faster than the traditional shipping ro-ro ship transportation, and the direct import of complete vehicles from the Lanzhou automobile import port effectively compresses the intermediate links of the vehicle import, reduces the purchase, operation and logistics costs of the whole vehicle, helps the automobile manufacturers to respond to market demand in a more rapid manner, meets customer needs with more accurate services, and on the basis of improving the competitiveness of enterprises and benefiting end consumers, carries out two-way international cooperation for the automobile industry in Gansu Province and contributes to the new pattern of "double cycle" economic development.

On October 9, 2018, the General Office of the State Council approved the Lanzhou Railway Container Depot as the vehicle import port; on March 24, 2020, the Lanzhou Automobile Import Port successfully passed the acceptance, filling the gap in the import business of the whole vehicle in Gansu Province. On July 1, 2020, the National VI emission standards for light vehicles were implemented nationwide, and the development of the national parallel import vehicle business entered a bottleneck period. Under the strong leadership of the provincial and municipal governments, with the cooperation and support of customs, railways, commerce and other departments, lanzhou dry port, in the face of the unfavorable situation of policy constraints and the double difficulties of epidemic risk, actively introduced operating enterprises, vigorously dredged business channels, and efficiently handled process blockages, achieving a breakthrough of "0 to 1" in the vehicle import business.

In the next step, Lanzhou Dry Port will systematically introduce policy support measures, send business backbones to follow the shift, cooperate with customs to improve customs clearance efficiency, strive to achieve "1 to N" normal operation of vehicle imports as soon as possible, further improve the basic service function of railway ports, expand the scale of international freight train operations, promote the rapid development of regional automobile trade, and help Gansu build an import automobile logistics distribution center in the western region.

Dong Yongqian, all-media reporter of Lanzhou Daily