According to the latest data from Horgos Customs, in the first four months of 2024, the fruit and vegetable export volume at Horgos Port reached 153,000 tons. Compared with the same period last year, this data shows a significant increase in freight volume. The increase exceeded 500%. At the same time, the trade volume also achieved a leap, with a year-on-year increase of more than 400%.

"The customs has set up a green channel for rapid customs clearance of agricultural and sideline products, and also provides customs clearance facilitation services with priority in receiving orders, priority review of orders, and priority inspection, so that our goods can be marketed 'fresh'." Hall Guo, who is engaged in the import and export of fruits and vegetables business Yu Chengzhong, general manager of Sijinyi International Trade (Group) Co., Ltd., said, "Now it only takes four and a half hours from Horgos Port to Almaty, and our manpower and material costs have dropped exponentially."

Fruits and vegetables are fresh goods, which require high logistics, transportation, warehousing and customs clearance timeliness. In order to help fruit and vegetable companies expand their export scale, Horgos Customs has implemented precise policies based on the characteristics of fruit and vegetable exports. Set up a "Fruit and Vegetable Green Pass Business Consultation" window, use smart platforms such as "Internet +" to send policies to enterprises "point-to-point", and guide enterprises to make good use of convenient measures such as "advance declaration"; give full play to the local inspection business management system and "cloud "Issuance" model has the advantages of linking and sharing fruit and vegetable data, shortening the waiting time of enterprises by 2 hours; setting up a business expert team to proactively provide door-to-door services, and regularly carry out pesticide residue testing for outbound fruit and vegetable producing areas in the jurisdiction, effectively helping fruit farmers increase production and income.

Li Nong, Chief of the First Customs Supervision Section of Horgos, said: “In order to improve the efficiency of customs clearance of exported fruits, we have continuously strengthened policy guidance for export enterprises and adopted convenient customs clearance measures such as special windows, special channels, and special signs to quickly increase the efficiency of agricultural and sideline products. On the basis of the 'green channel' for customs clearance, the 'direct port' model for exporting agricultural products is superimposed to ensure 'immediate arrival, immediate inspection and immediate release', reducing customs clearance time by more than 40% and further improving port traffic efficiency.Editor/Zhao E