Port to benefit from preferential policies
(China Daily)
Updated: 2006-10-12 09:08 DALIAN: The city's planned
Dayaowan Bonded Port Area will integrate all the preferential policies granted
by the central government to bonded areas, export processing areas and bonded
logistics parks, according to one of its leading officials.
The planned bonded port in Northeast China's Liaoning Province covers an area
of 6.88 square kilometres, consisting of a container terminal, an automobile
terminal and a logistics park, said Zhang Shikun, director of Dalian Bonded Area
Administrative Committee.
Dayaowan is one of three bonded port areas being constructed in the country.
The other two are Dongjiang Bonded Port Area in Tianjin and Yangshan Bonded Port
Area in Shanghai. The State Council, China's cabinet, approved the construction
of Dayaowan Bonded Port Area in August.
Zhang said the key task now was to maximize the area's effectiveness in terms
of international trade, export processing, storage and exhibition of bonded
commodities.
At the same time the port will extend its services to land ports in the
hinterland of the region, Zhang said.
More than 70 per cent of the region's containers are currently handled at
Dayaowan Container Terminal.
Six new berths are being constructed as part of the second phase of the
construction of the bonded port. In the near future, after its third-phase
project is completed, Dayawan Port, with a 7-kilometre-long shoreline, will
become a container complex with 21 container berths, and an annual handling
capacity of 10 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs).
"As a free-trade port with Chinese characteristics, the Dayaowan Bonded Port
Area can provide strong support for building Dalian into an international
transportation hub in Northeast Asia," said Xia Deren, the city's mayor.
In 2003 the State Council approved the construction of an international
transportation hub in the city as part of its strategy to revitalize Northeast
China.
(China Daily 10/12/2006 page10)
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