A few days ago, a batch of around 200kg mussel (Mytilus edulis) was shipped From Netherlands to Hangzhou Airport. The seafood would be available on local market once it gained qualification and approval authorized by Hangzhou Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau.
It’s known that Hangzhou Airport gained import qualification of foreign seafood last July, after which it improved and optimized its customs clearance procedures, managing to shorten the whole process and goods retention time and so on to benefit seafood import.
It’s been just one year up to this July that Hanzhou Airport received overseas seafood import certification, during which Hangzhou had imported a total of 810 batches, 854.2 tonnes and 14.404 million US dollars worth of overseas live and fresh aquatic products, increasing by 59.8%、7% and 34.2% year on year. Apart from salmon and Dungeness crab, Boston lobster, grouper, abalone, blue crab, mussel etc. were also added to imported seafood species. And only one week later after G20 Summit, another 13 batches, 9 tonnes and 0.196 million US dollars worth of overseas superior seafood gained access into Hangzhou. According to local businessmen, they are preparing goods right now for the upcoming Chinese National Day (1st October).
It’s reported that the first-registered individual proprietorship from Australia this year also went to Hangzhou Airport to consult import business. It’s sure that Snow crab, Australian lobster, Cancer pagurus and other kind of seafood would arrive in Hangzhou one after another in near future.
