The freight train clearance here is efficient (build a new development pattern · front-line view of foreign trade)


In 2020, the foreign trade of Xinjiang Alashankou Port will rise against the trend: the total import and export volume of Alashankou Station will reach 15 million tons, with a year-on-year growth of 12%; Through Alashankou Station, 5,027 freight trains exported to and from China and Europe (Central Asia), up 40.1% year on year.


The reporter walked into the Alashankou port to see how the people here work together in their respective posts, so that a full load of boxes smoothly enter and leave the country.


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Dou Shanshan, export forwarder in the loading workshop:


"More trains were released, but there was no queue in the hall."


It was a cold winter, and there was no expected long queue in the Alashankou Railway International Transportation Building in Xinjiang. But this does not mean that here is not busy, Alashankou station cargo loading workshop export freight member Dou Shanshan a busy morning did not even consider the saliva on the drink.


Opening the digital port application system, Dou Shanshan picked up a stack of freight waybills of Central Europe (Central Asia) freight train at her hand, input the batch number on the waybill, extract the train number, consignee, arrival and other information of the waybill, check and confirm with the waybill on hand, and click "Extract the waybill". After about 30 minutes, the whole train will be checked. She will immediately arrive notice information sent to Xinjiang Zhonglian Haitong International Freight Forwarding Co., Ltd. Salesman Zhang Qian.


"The documents have been collected and released." Received the message, Zhang Qian immediately rushed to the transport building, ready to sort out documents, at the same time for customs clearance business. This is already Zhang Qian that day processing the second freight waybill, "now a day to deal with at least two columns, the export volume has increased, it takes less time, before three or four people more than an hour to finish things, now I a person less than 10 minutes to finish.


On July 1, 2020, after the digital port application system was put into use, the China-Europe (Central Asia) Express train could input the bill information into the system at the departure station. Dou Shanshan no longer needed to manually input the bill information on the spot, but only needed to check and release it. "It used to be seven or eight at most a day, now it's at least 10 a day, and the peak is 14 or 15. After receiving the information, the enterprise only needs one person to complete the sorting of documents. There are more trains, but there is no queue in the hall."


Dou alone handled 34,604 waybills in 2020. "During the epidemic prevention and control period, the export train did not stop for a day." Dou Shanshan said that most of the time, four trains arrive at the same time and need to check. "Every day, so many goods are sent from China to other parts of the world through my hands, especially during the epidemic prevention and control period, daily necessities, electronic equipment, epidemic prevention materials and so on are shipped abroad in large quantities. I feel very proud and a sense of achievement."


Alikemujiang Kranmu, staff member of the Customs Supervision Section:


"We are now truly 365 days non-stop."


According to the procedure, the information extracted and verified by Dou Shanshan will be submitted simultaneously to the system of the staff of the Customs Supervision Department for the other side to handle the customs clearance procedures.


"Arrived a train, later take the list to handle release." At 0:23 on January 7, there is a message in the WeChat group, is on the night duty of Alashankou customs supervision division two three host Alik Mu Jiang Cranmu picked up a mobile phone to see, is an export enterprise responsible person Li Wei's export goods need to go through the release procedures.


At this moment, Li Wei has arrived in the hall, put the train details on the table, waved with Aalik Mujiang from a distance and left to handle other procedures. a rickwood river to get the list, open the computer for cancellation, 92 boxes of daily necessities, auto parts and other goods, more than ten minutes after the cancellation. At 1:9 a.m., Alik Mujiang informed Li Wei in the WeChat group that it could be released. Non-contact procedures throughout the process have not only improved efficiency, but also ensured the prevention and control of the epidemic.


In order to minimize the stay time of the China-Europe (Central Asia) freight train at the port and improve the operation efficiency, the customs of Alashankou has adopted a series of convenient customs clearance measures, set up a special window for the China-Europe (Central Asia) freight train, and implemented the priority clearance and 7×24 hours operation mode. "We are now really 365 days non-stop." 'If we don't let them out at night, there will be a backlog of trains the next day,' Mr. Arecmujiang said. In order to ensure efficient passage, all posts are reducing the time that the train stays at the port. Basically, all procedures of the customs, railway, border inspection and other departments can be completed within a few hours, and the customs can go out smoothly.


According to statistics, on January 21, 2020, Alashankou Port launched cross-border e-commerce business for the first time, and then the export of cross-border e-commerce packages showed explosive growth, with the average daily export quantity exceeding 125,000 pieces, and 38.4 million pieces in 2020. "Foreign demand for our products is still high, reaching 1 million in the first six days of 2021 and is expected to reach 50 million in the whole year. E-commerce packages have high requirements for timeliness, so we need to provide better services to meet the round-the-clock customs clearance requirements of inbound and outbound China-Europe (Central Asia) freight trains." Alashankou customs integrated business section chief Zhang Xiaodong said.


Alashankou station operation management personnel, operation link personnel, team drivers......


Run together good goods exit the last rod


Guo San, chief of the operation management section of Alashankou Station, is responsible for the manpower and equipment scheduling of all freight transport processes in the station. With more trains to Central Europe (Central Asia), he is struggling a bit. "Not only are there more, but now there are very few empty trains, almost full."


In order to run together good goods exit the last rod, Alashankou station different positions of staff are working hard.


Outside, the temperature is close to -30 degrees Celsius, and a bloated figure in the open is constantly picking off air ducts, adjusting hooks, picking off hooks, connecting hooks, jumping up and down on a moving shunting machine for lookouts, doing the same thing hundreds of times a day. He is Alashankou station operation workshop link member Li Weijun, responsible for the train marshal, disintegration of work, "average every day by the vehicle running more than 60 kilometers."


When I reached Xu Shengdong, the driver of the team going abroad in the operation workshop of Alashankou Station, he had just finished his work. "Due to the need of epidemic prevention and control, we have not returned home since the middle of last October, and 28 people are divided into two teams to work in turn."


Xu Shengdong is responsible for pulling the China-Europe (Central Asia) freight train leaving the country via Alashankou Station to Kazakhstan Dostek Station for changing, and then pulling the empty train from Kazakhstan back to Alashankou after changing. A 12-kilometer route, with Kazakh border control, customs inspection and reloading time, can take as little as 8 to 9 hours to as much as 13 to 14 hours for a round trip. Xu Shengdong obviously felt that this year's export trains increased, "the original only 24 drivers to go abroad, now increased by 4, we have to run two times a day on average."


"Now the number of outbound trains has increased, even causing a traffic jam at Dostek station." Xu Shengdong said that it is often three or four hours after the train is hauled to Dostek Station to complete the change, "the foreign market demand is still very strong."