Ningbo Customs' 2026 work conference revealed that in 2025, Ningbo's special customs supervision zones for cross-border e-commerce achieved 5.99 billion yuan in export value, a year-over-year growth of 24.7%, and maintained China's leading position. The value of bonded imports from cross-border online shopping continued to rank second nationally, with emerging foreign trade formats energizing regional open-economy growth.
The capabilities of open platforms showed steady advancement. In 2025, Ningbo Customs gave full backing to constructing a bulk commodity resource allocation hub, facilitating completion of Asia's largest underground propane bonded warehouse. As a result, the nation's first bonded LNG bunkering pilot, operating under a "supply-vessel-first, customs-declaration-after" model, was successfully implemented, and a single biofuel bunkering operation of 5,700 metric tons established a new national record. These advances positioned the Port of Ningbo-Zhoushan as the world's 4th largest bunkering port and one of China's top 3 LNG bunkering ports. Looking to 2026, building on these results, Ningbo Customs will continue advancing the free trade pilot zone upgrade strategy, steadily expand institutional opening-up, optimize innovation mechanisms for free trade zones, broaden the scope of differentiated supervision modes, accelerate the rollout of China's first liquefied propane and LNG bonded delivery operations, and further solidify its standing as a bulk commodity resource allocation hub.
The efficiency of logistics circulation achieved notable advancement. In 2025, Ningbo Customs pioneered the "1+3" customs-port cooperation mechanism, propelling Ningbo International Shipping Service Center's (NISSC) development index to rank 7th globally. The nation's first dual-express logistics model, combining high-quality sea-rail intermodal express lines with China-Europe/China-Middle East express shipping routes, was launched, with the Yiwu-Port of Ningbo-Zhoushan sea-rail intermodal corridor becoming the nation's first to exceed one million TEUs in transaction volume, maintaining a consistent leading position in foreign trade container throughput nationally. To keep logistics circulation flowing smoothly in 2026, Ningbo Customs will actively engage in multimodal transportation reform, enhance the "Zhejiang e-Port" system through quality upgrades and expanded coverage, support key infrastructure projects at Meishan Terminal, drive advancement through dual mechanisms of hardware upgrades and software optimization, and help the Port of Ningbo-Zhoushan achieve new highs in container throughput.
Foreign trade service innovation flourished with notable achievements. In 2025, Ningbo Customs successfully advanced establishment of a "1+14+N" business model of Micro-Fulfillment Center (MFC) for cross-border e-commerce, smoothly facilitated Zhejiang Province's first inter-customs-district return operation for cross-border e-commerce retail exports, and actively supported the development of emerging business formats such as "bonded warehouse plus live streaming." The customs authority also strategically enabled industrial upgrading, with automotive transmission bonded repair projects and the first automotive chip bonded R&D project successfully established in Ningbo Bonded Area. In 2026, focused on high-quality foreign trade development, Ningbo Customs will continue implementing cross-border e-commerce regulatory reform measures, deepen joint customs-enterprise collaborative management, promote synergistic development of "MFC plus overseas warehouse" models, further enable integrated upgrading of "cross-border e-commerce plus industrial clusters," and provide full support for developing a high-level international cross-border e-commerce hub.
(By Zhu Wei and Ying Jun)
Economic Information Daily, February 11, 2026 (Free Trade Zone Division, Meishan Customs)
Disclaimer：The above content is translated from Chinese version of Economic Information Daily. The Economic Information Daily version shall prevail.
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