On May 10, the first China-Laos freight train using the new mode of "Express Railway" arrived at Chengdu International Railway Port and completed the customs clearance process, marking the beginning of the era of "Express Railway". The average customs clearance time of china-Laos freight between Vientiane and Chengdu will be reduced by more than 24 hours.


It is understood that "fast rail pass" namely "railway of inbound and outbound fast customs clearance" mode, is the General Administration of Customs, in order to further open to the west open international logistics channel to promote trains high quality development, simplify the trains of inbound and outbound supervision procedure, shorten the trains running time, improve the efficiency of railway transport passage import and export goods and facilitation, According to the characteristics of railway transport container cargo launched a new regulatory business model. In this mode, import and export enterprises can go through the "fast clearance" procedures before the arrival of the freight train. After the arrival of the freight train, it does not need to stay at the port of entry to declare for customs transfer procedures, but can be directly transported to the destination customs for customs clearance procedures, so as to realize the nationwide intensive dispatch of the customs supervision force.

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According to Sun Jianwei, president of Mi Cang Supply Chain Group, the freight train, which carries 25 containers with a total of 500 tons of cassava starch, adopts the "express railway" mode, which greatly improves the cost, operation and timeliness of customs clearance. "In the past, it took about 1 to 2 days for the customs to review the documents and release them. After using the mode of 'Express Railway', the application will be submitted to the customs in advance before the train arrives at the station. After the entry of containers, check the waybill number, container number, bus number and other information with the paper waybill recorded in advance. The information is correct, and the customs receipt 'allow express Railway', and it only takes 3 to 5 hours to go through the customs formalities." Sun jianwei said.

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"In order to ensure the smooth customs clearance of the China-Laos Railway express, we have established a communication mechanism between the customs at the point of shipment and the customs at the entry and exit ports, refined the supervision nodes of the new business model, and verified the electronic data of railway manifest accurately and timely to achieve rapid customs clearance. Under this model, the average customs clearance time for cargo on the Vientian-Chengdu China-Laos railway will be reduced by more than 24 hours." Chengdu Customs qingbaijiang Customs deputy director Liu Liang said.