Jinjing Area of Pingtan Port opens for trade with Taiwan

Pingtan Comprehensive Experimental Area held a press conference on April 30, announcing that Jinjing Area of Pingtan Port has recently passed the inspection and will open to trade with Taiwan's key ports.

Jinjing Area has 9 proposed berths, of which Berth 3, 4 and 5 have been completed. Among the completed berths, Berth 3 is a 50000t multi-purpose berth with a coastline of 384 meters and a designed annual throughput of 1.254 million tons, Berth 4 and 5 are 50000t multi-purpose berths with a total coastline of 661 meters and a designed annual total throughput of 2.6 million tons. With a planned construction area of 1,123 mu, the area involves warehousing facilities measuring 28,000 square meters, including cold chain warehousing facilities measuring 5,200 square meters. Besides, two logistics trade industry parks will be planned and constructed outside the area.

After its opening, Jinjing Area will trade with the key ports in Taipei, Taichung, Keelung, Kaohsiung and Anping. To date the area has launched a few ship routes to Kaohsiung, Taichung, Taipei, Hong Kong and Kinmen, including a route to Taipei every Tuesday and Thursday, and a route to Kaohsiung every fortnight. In the future, the area will further extend its ship route network to cover all key ports in Taiwan.

According to a head of the Transport & Logistics Department of Pingtan Comprehensive Experimental Area, with focus on the transport of general trade goods, Jinjing Area will develop cross-border e-commerce, express delivery and general bonded import goods business. In the first quarter of this year, the total import and export value of Pingtan Port's cross-border e-commerce and express delivery through shipping stood at 310 million yuan, up 196 percent year on year. Meanwhile, Pingtan is steadily developing trade modes like "mini three links" (small-scale) trade with Taiwan, duty-free goods trade with Taiwan and Taiwanese motor vehicles' entry into Fujian.

Also, Jinjing Area will be built into the main import channel for Taiwanese farm and fish products. This January Pingtan launched a direct cargo route to Kaohsiung, to quickly bring Taiwanese fruits to the mainland market. In the future, the area will apply to be a designated port importing frozen and fresh aquatic products, fruits, seeds and seedlings, meat and edible aquatic animals, plan and construct a trade center for Taiwanese farm and fish products.

In the first quarter of this year, Pingtan Port registered a total import and export value of 2.23 billion yuan and a container throughput of 6,999 TEUs, up 78.7 percent and 55.91 percent year on year respectively. With a grand concentration of numerous express and logistics enterprises, Pingtan enjoys an efficient and convenient back-end distribution network. With the opening of the rail-highway bridge to traffic, goods in Jinjing Area will reach the Fuzhou Changle International Airport within 30 minutes at the soonest, and a logistics channel linking the mainland to Taiwan and the world will come into being.