Air-Land Fresh Lane totally released (with pictures)
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The complete launch event of Air-Land Fresh Lane, hosted by Hong Kong Customs and the Airport Authority Hong Kong (AAHK), was held today (September 26) at the AsiaWorld-Expo. The event was officiated by the Commissioner of Customs and Excise, Mr Chan Tsz-tat; the Chief Executive Officer of the AAHK, Mrs Vivian Cheung; Party Committee Member of Gongbei Customs District and Director General of the Zhongshan Customs District, Mr Wang Baoren; the Deputy Director-General of the Police Liaison Department of the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), Ms Meng Xiaoyuan; Legislative Council Member (Transport Functional Constituency) Mr Frankie Yick; and the Director of Food and Environmental Hygiene, Mr Donald Ng.
The Air-Land Fresh Lane, collectively released by the Guangdong and Hong Kong federal governments, intends to make use of the strengths of Hong Kong International Airport and the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge (HZMB) to help with abroad fresh items imported into the Mainland while empowering top quality fresh items from the Mainland to go international by embracing a brand-new regulative design to simplify custom-mades clearance for fresh items. This leverages Hong Kong’s function as a “super-connector” and a “super value-adder” to promote financial and trade advancements in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA). Considering that April this year, the Air-Land Fresh Lane has actually begun its trial operations by stages; air-to-land consignments of fruits, cooled and live seafood stemming from various parts of the world were efficiently imported into Zhuhai by means of Hong Kong through this “green channel”
Speaking at the event, Mr Chan stated that the effective execution of the Air-Land Fresh Lane was credited to the collective efforts and co-operation of the federal governments of Guangdong and Hong Kong. By conquering troubles and eliminating barriers one by one, pertinent policies had the ability to be lined up in between the 2 sides and have clearance treatments streamlined, consisting of protecting the assistance from the General Administration of Customs of individuals’s Republic of China to establish a designated assessment website at the HZMB Zhuhai Port with innovative temperature-controlled centers, embracing a brand-new frame of mind and advanced innovation to simplify the clearance of fresh food transshipment, and getting the assistance from the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department to excuse the air-to-land food transshipment under this plan from the food importer registration requirement. With these procedures, the plan will not just assist the market lower the operating expense however likewise improve the general performance, making it end up being an essential bridge linking the Mainland with international markets and cultivating Hong Kong’s function as a global logistics center. Mr Chan likewise worried that Hong Kong Customs will continue to promote and deepen top-level partnership with the Mainland throughout various locations, consequently adding to the advancements of the GBA and the nation.
Almost 200 visitors went to the introducing event, consisting of agents of Gongbei Customs, the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in the HKSAR, and Zhuhai Municipal Bureau of Commerce, authorities of the HKSAR Government, a Legislative Council Member, agents of the AAHK, foreign consuls, and agents from logistics associations, logistics and fresh food trade sectors.