The New Yellow River reporter learned from Shandong Port Group that recently, a cargo ship carrying 1500 tons of high-purity pig iron set sail from Shandong Port Bohai Bay Port Weifang Port Area and was exported overseas, marking the official landing of Shandong Port International Trade Group's high-purity pig iron export business. This business relies on the linkage advantage of "port+trade" to open up channels for high-end metallurgical products to go global, effectively helping domestic high value-added metallurgical products to explore international markets.


High purity pig iron is an important new metal material and high-end casting raw material. With its excellent characteristics of high purity, high stability, and high consistency, it is widely used in high-end equipment casting fields such as wind power, nuclear power, and high-speed trains. In order to smoothly carry out this business, the trading group fully integrates internal and external resources, accurately connects with the needs of overseas terminal enterprises, deeply investigates high-quality production enterprises in the province, locks in reliable first-hand sources of goods, and customizes an integrated supply chain comprehensive service plan based on the characteristics of the goods.

In response to the new regulations related to steel exports, the Shandong Port Business Team has comprehensively sorted out the entire process of license application, tariff verification, customs code confirmation, ship leasing, etc., strictly controlled business risks, standardized operating procedures, and accumulated practical experience in exporting standardized high-end metallurgical products. At the same time, Bohai Bay Port and Weifang Representative Office are efficiently linked to coordinate and ensure the smooth operation of various guarantee work such as customs clearance and inspection, collection and distribution organization, port loading and unloading, etc., and to provide efficient and convenient logistics support for high-end products of hinterland enterprises to go global through the full chain logistics channel of "production enterprises port platforms overseas markets".