A new freight service is set to boost the e-commerce business between the city of Xiamen in East China's Fujian province and Jinmen, a county and small island attached to Taiwan province.
At the Yuanhai Container Terminal in the Haicang Free Trade Port Area – located in the Xiamen Area of China (Fujian) Pilot Free Trade Zone – a large freighter was recently loading up to sail to Jinmen.
Holding a total of 33 twenty-foot equivalent units or TEUs of goods worth $2.54 million, it was the first cross-border e-commerce business consignment handled by the Haicang Free Trade Port Area for the new Xiamen to Jinmen freight service.
Thanks to the preferential policies of the free trade port area, the efficiency of transportation is said to have greatly improved.
Since the establishment of a Xiamen cross-border e-commerce supervision center, the Haicang Free Trade Port Area has seized the opportunity to coordinate various resources and has created an innovative model to fully take advantage of the area's favorable warehousing and customs clearances.
The freight service is being run every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and a total of 15 voyages are planned per month.
What's more, the frequency will be further increased, based on demand, so as meet the needs of cross-border e-commerce at Xiamen Port.
The service is expected to help develop a fast logistics channel across the Taiwan Straits, promote regional circulation and boost economic and trade exchanges across the water.
Furthermore, the Xiamen Area of China (Fujian) Pilot Free Trade Zone will continue to give full play to its advantages of being close to Taiwan.
Its aim is to bolster its role as an international logistics hub, expand economic and trade cooperation, promote in-depth reforms with high-level opening-up and promote high-quality growth.