Ports, as important hubs of transportation and trade, play a key role in the domestic and foreign trade and the establishment of a systematic global logistics and supply chain service. With the growth of China’s foreign trade logistics, the port logistics has been increasing as a large proportion of China’s logistics industry.
Considering the importance of import and export trade, and with the development of land ports, national free trade zones and cross-border e-commerce in recent years, standards need to cater to the new development and demands of port logistics.
SAMR (SAC) recently released the revised national standard GB/T 28580-2023, Quality specifications for port logistics service, to further improve the quality of port logistics service.
The revised national standard puts forward requirements for the overall requirement, service content, service quality assessment, continuous improvement and other aspects of port logistics service for not only harbors but also airports and land border ports, strengthens the requirement on multimodal transport, and increases the service quality evaluation indicators such as timely delivery rate and information transfer punctuality rate.
The standard will help improve the services of domestic port logistics enterprises, and port business environment, which is of great significance for raising the international logistics efficiency, promoting the international trade facilitation, and supporting the construction of a new development paradigm.
Source: China Standardization Magazine, Supplement Issue in 2023
