In 2025, the export value of cross-border e-commerce from Ningbo's special customs supervision zones reached 5.99 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 24.7%, securing the top national ranking. Meanwhile, the city's bonded import volume for cross-border e-commerce online retail continues to lead the country, holding firm at second place.These innovative trade formats have injected fresh vitality into the growth of the regional open economy.
Ningbo Customs officers inspect cross-border e-commerce export goods. Photo by Ying Jun
In 2025, Ningbo Customs played a pivotal role in developing a hub for bulk commodity resource allocation. Key achievements included facilitating the construction of Asia’s largest underground bonded propane storage facility and pioneering a national pilot for bonded LNG bunkering under a “supply first, declare later” model. A single 5,700-ton biofuel bunkering operation set a new national record. These milestones collectively propelled the Ningbo-Zhoushan Port to become the world’s fourth-largest bunkering port and rank among China’s top three LNG bunkering ports.
The Customs introduced an innovative "1+3" customs-port cooperation mechanism, contributing to the Ningbo International Shipping Center's rise to 7th place in global rankings. It launched the country’s first "premium sea-rail intermodal express + China-Europe/Middle East express shipping" dual-mode logistics model. The "Yiwu-Ningbo Zhoushan Port" sea-rail intermodal route became China’s first to exceed one million TEUs in annual throughput, with its foreign trade container volume consistently leading the nation.
Meishan Port Area of Ningbo-Zhoushan Port. Photo by Yang Jiangqi
Additionally, Ningbo Customs successfully promoted a "1+14+N" network layout for cross-border e-commerce front warehouses. It facilitated the province's first cross-border e-commerce retail export return operation across customs zones and supported emerging models like "bonded warehouse + live streaming." To enable targeted industrial upgrading, it helped launch projects such as bonded maintenance for automotive transmissions and bonded R&D for automotive chips in the Ningbo Free Trade Zone.
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