Shandong Port has laid out five dry ports in Shanxi and built an ＂end-to-end＂ logistics service system.

Peninsula reporter Hao Chunmei

On the morning of November 15th, a promotion meeting for Shandong Port Group and China Railway Container Company to enter Shanxi to serve customers in the central and western regions was held in Taiyuan, Shanxi. Shandong Port signed five cooperation agreements with partners and customers, unveiled five dry ports in Shandong Port, and put forward six commitments to serve customers, so as to promote cooperation, build a dry port and highlight the promised "real materials", build a convenient, economical and efficient "end-to-end" one-stop logistics service avenue, further strengthen the upstream and downstream connection of port logistics chain, improve the quality of customers in the hinterland of port service, reduce the logistics cost of customers in the central and western regions, and strive to improve the comprehensive service capacity of ports.

The promotion meeting of Shandong Port Group and China Railway Container Company entering Shanxi to serve customers in the central and western regions was held in Taiyuan.

Shanxi is an important energy base in China and the first comprehensive reform pilot of energy revolution, which plays an important role in China’s national economy. Shandong and Shanxi are geographically close, popular and mutually complementary. The convenient and efficient railway and highway network extending in all directions has closely linked the two provinces, making Shandong ports the most economical and convenient seaports in Shanxi and even the vast central and western regions. In 2018, driven by railway arteries such as Wazi and Xinhe Yanri, ports in Shandong provided services to more than 150 important customers in the central and western regions, and completed more than 60 million tons of iron ore, coal and coke.

In order to thoroughly implement the spirit of the important instructions of the Supreme Leader General Secretary "pay more attention to managing the ocean" and "accelerate the construction of a world-class marine port", Shandong Port Group was established on August 6 this year, which opened a new page for Shandong ports to grasp their fingers and complement each other’s advantages and accelerate the construction of a world-class marine port. In order to better serve the economic development of the central and western regions and promote a higher level of opening to the outside world, Shandong ports have made efforts in both land and sea, started trains in the land direction, built land ports and expanded the supply of goods, set up three "inland ports" in Xi’ an and Urumqi, opened up new two-way logistics channels between Shandong and South Korea, and added six container sea-rail combined transport lines; Open sea routes, expand cabin capacity and expand transit, and newly open container ocean routes from Qingdao to the North Pole, Qingdao to Southeast Asia and Rizhao to the North Pole. Successfully held the 2019 "Belt and Road" land-sea linkage summit forum, set up a 100-billion-level development fund, set up a land-sea linkage development alliance, and released the East Asia maritime trade index. The new opening pattern of "two-way mutual assistance between east and west and linkage between land and sea" was accelerated. From January to October, the total cargo throughput of Shandong ports was 1.09 billion tons, an increase of 8.6% year-on-year; The container throughput was 24.47 million TEUs, up 9% year-on-year, showing a good trend of rising volume and efficiency and rising against the trend.

Shandong Port signed strategic cooperation agreements with five major enterprises to build a cooperative community with close ties, risk sharing and benefit sharing.

At the promotion meeting, Shandong Port Group signed cooperation agreements with China Railway Container Company, Shandong Port Qingdao Port Group and China Railway Container Jinan Branch, Shandong Port Rizhao Port Group and China Railway Container Taiyuan Branch, Shanxi Shide Energy Group, Shandong Port Yantai Port Group and Shanxi Aluminum Corporation, which further built a cooperative community with close ties, shared risks and benefits.

At the same time, five dry ports of Shandong Port Group, such as China Railway Group Jiexiu Dry Port, Anyang Xiangdao Dry Port, Xiaoyi Modern Logistics Park Dry Port, Shanxi Nengtou Caijiaya Dry Port and Puyang Dry Port, were unveiled. The layout of the five dry ports comprehensively considers the advantages of railway container transportation and resource location, and will further integrate upstream and downstream resources to create an integrated logistics service integrating warehousing, processing, transportation, trading and financial services.

Shandong Port and China Railway Container Company respectively introduced their business and launched six service commitments. Among them, there are not only the efficiency commitment that the entry and exit time of the 10,000-ton train of Wari Railway should not exceed 6 hours, but also the personalized service measures such as "changing large trains to small trains", "changing large trains to land transport" and "changing large trains to bulk trains", and building an active trade platform of "selling for mines and purchasing for factories", etc., which shows the confidence and sincerity of Shandong Port in serving customers in the central and western regions and working together for win-win development.

Mr. Li Fengli, Deputy Secretary, Director and General Manager of Shandong Port Group, delivered a speech.

Li Fengli, deputy secretary, director and general manager of the Party Committee of Shandong Port Group, said in his speech that in recent days, major national strategies such as the Shandong New and Old Kinetic Energy Conversion Comprehensive Experimental Zone, the Shandong Pilot Free Trade Zone and the China-SCO Cooperation Demonstration Zone have continuously empowered Shandong and Qingdao. The Shandong port at the crossroads of the Belt and Road Initiative has ushered in a golden opportunity for development, and its role and advantages in serving the country’s opening to the outside world have become more prominent. Shandong Port will join hands with railway departments, customs, shipping companies and logistics enterprises to "move" the seaport to the door of customers in Shanxi and even the vast central and western regions, speed up the construction of an "end-to-end" whole logistics service system, and strive to provide customers with the "four most" services with the highest efficiency, the best service, the safest operation and the most reasonable price.

More than 300 people from relevant leaders of Taiyuan Municipal Government, Customs and Railways, representatives of customers in the central and western regions, and representatives of port groups in Shandong Port attended the promotion meeting.

Zhang Jiyi, Party Secretary and Chairman of China Railway Container Transportation Co., Ltd., Wang Ligang, Standing Committee Member of Taiyuan Municipal Committee and Executive Deputy Mayor, Liu Feng, Deputy General Manager of China Railway Taiyuan Bureau Group Co., Ltd., Ding Yongmin, Deputy General Manager of China Railway Jinan Bureau Group Co., Ltd. attended the promotion meeting. Sun Zhengfu, a member of the leadership team of Shandong Port Group and deputy secretary, director and general manager of Bohai Bay Port Party Committee of Shandong Port, attended the event, which was presided over by Liu Guotian, deputy secretary and general manager of Rizhao Port Party Committee of Shandong Port. More than 300 people from relevant leaders of Taiyuan Municipal Government, Customs and Railways, representatives of customers in the central and western regions, and representatives of port groups in Shandong Port attended the promotion meeting.