Recently, the Municipal Transportation Bureau in Dalian has been actively promoting the work of lowering the port fees to help the recovery of shipping economy and promote the coordinated resumption of work and production of logistics chain, which effectively enhances enterprises' sense of achievement in reducing their burdens, and further reduces logistics costs and improves the business environment at the ports.
Up to now, the port enterprises in Dalian have reduced or exempted cargo dues and the port facility security fees by more than 4 million yuan for the cargo owner enterprises. By June 30th, the total reduction of cargo owner enterprises in Dalian Port is expected to be over 16 million yuan. In addition, Dalian Port Company Limited has further increased its preferential charges during the epidemic prevention and control period and has introduced the Green Passage Policy for prevention and control of materials. The Port has exempted the ordinary heavy container storage fee for domestic and foreign trade and the operating cost of epidemic prevention materials that incurred from February 2nd to February 9th, given 50% discount to the stockpiling fee of ordinary heavy containers for foreign trade that occurred from February 10th to April 30th, and offered a 45-day free stockpiling period and preferential rates for the handling of empty containers for foreign trade. At present, it has saved more than 3.4 million yuan for the logistics cost for shippers.
It is reported that the Municipal Transportation Bureau in Dalian immediately issues a notice requiring relevant port enterprises to reduce the government-set port operation service fees of port cargo fees and port facility security fees by 20 percent respectively from March 1st to June 30th on the basis of the fee reduction in 2019, in accordance with the spirit of the relevant documents. At the same time, we should do a good job in the supervision and administration of port operations, carry out special inspections, standardize port charges, urge port operators to strengthen docking and cooperation with shippers to promote the formation of a transmission mechanism for lowering fees, a community of interests, and to ensure that the phased port fee reductions are well implemented.
At present, the relevant port enterprises promptly adjust the public charges, update the public catalogue of charges, re-produce the public board of charges, and timely inform the cargo owner enterprise through sending E-mails, making promotional boards, etc. Beiliang Port, Hengli Petrifaction and other enterprises even exempt the above two expenses.
The phased implementation of the port fee reduction policy has alleviated the capital turnover difficulties of the cargo owner enterprises, especially of those small and micro enterprises, and effectively reduces the operating burden of the enterprises, promotes the coordinated resumption of work and production of the logistics industry and the industrial chain to constantly improve the business environment of the city's transport ports. In the first quarter, the cargo throughput of Dalian Port is 82.55 million tons, which rises by 1.5% more than the previous year.