 ¡°Shenzhen
possesses advantageous conditions to
build a networked free port.¡±
-- Tse Kam Tim
As General Manger
of Yantian International Container Terminals
Limited as well as a member of CPPCC,
Tse Kam Tim deems that Shenzhen possesses
advantageous conditions to build a networked
free port.
Shenzhen possesses a plenty of special
supervised zones including bonded zones,
export processing zones, export supervised
warehouses & bonded logistics centers,
and bonded logistics parks. However,
with relatively single functionality,
scattered location and divided services,
they cannot satisfy the in-depth requirements
for trade convenience and international
logistics efficiency. Tse suggests implementing
virtual connection and functional integration
on such special zones, starting from
the integration of advantageous resources,
and adopting integration and merger
measures as to zones of short distance
and adopting networking supervision
combining GPS, electronic locking and
RFID technologies as to those zones
of long distance, so as to build a grand
free port system based on multiple networked
zones.
Tse¡¯s vision is as follows: during the
¡°eleventh five-year plan¡± period, Shenzhen
Municipal Government should coordinate
with relevant units including port units,
container terminals, bonded logistics
parks, and warehousing enterprises to
implement the construction of a networked
free port system in three phases, with
building a free port as the goal.
1. To develop and improve the operation
mechanism and operating procedures of
the ¡°zone-port joint operation¡± and
make a trial of the free port mode in
a limited scope, based upon the bonded
logistics park policy, and combined
with operating flows of the container
terminals and operating features of
near-port international logistics services;
2. To expand the trial mode to special
regions approved by the State Council
or the General Administration of Customs
and upgrade special supervised zones
to free port zones to develop a basic
form of a networked free port;
3. To promote the basic form gradually
to functional blocks under planning
and construction in Shenzhen, such as
the Grand Industrial Zone, Logistics
Parks, and develop a networked free
port system.
Extracted
from Hong Kong Commercial Daily
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