The first shipment Photo taken by Zhou Haohui

Recently, a container full of water sports equipment was loaded by the railway train after inspected and released by Ningbo Customs in Ningbo Zhoushan Port Railway Beilun Port Station. It is expected that it will arrive at Xigaze West Station in Xizang in 7 days. It will be loaded with road cross-border truck, and then leave the country from Jilong Port and will be transported to Jesova, Nepal. The goods of this business mode is the first ticket railroad multimodal transport for application export multimodal in our province.

It is understood that under this mode, not only the customs clearance process can be simplified, but also the service advantage of the long distance, large volume of the railway transport and the flexibility, "door to door" of road transport can be given full play, so that the rapid transfer and seamless connection of the goods can be realized, and the stay time and the numbers of loading and unloading of the goods can be reduced in the transport process, by which the mode of transportation of the enterprise can be adjusted flexible, and the cost of the whole process of logistics can also be reduced. According to measurement and calculation, the fee can be saved about 500 yuan by each natural container in export cargo logistics and other various costs.

"At present, many customers have consulted on the business mode of railroad multimodal transport for the export goods, and we have selected a batch of water sports equipment as the pilot goods. “Su Jingyi, General Manager of Ningbo Fox International Freight Forwarding Co., Ltd. said, under the new mode, our goods will be transported to Jilong Port directly for leaving the country by road transportation after being transported to Xigaze West Station in Xizang by railway. Compared with traditional sea transportation, the time of transportation can be saved about 30 days and the “one order to the end.” can be realized truly. Supported by the business mode of multimodal transport, the organization form of enterprise logistics is more flexible, by which the goods collection can be carried out more efficiently by the enterprises.(Reporter: Cheng Baige  Correspondents: Hu Feng Pan Yanyu)