Santos Port will open office in China

The Dock Company of São Paulo State (Codesp) is working on opening an office in Shanghai, China. On the 6th, the company’s CEO, Casemiro Tércio Carvalho, will go to China for meetings with partners, with Apex (Trade and Investment Promotion Agency), the embassy, ​​the Port of Ningbo, as well as associations of importers and investors from other ports.

“The idea is to bear fruit during this mission, as preparation to set up the office in the second half of this year. We intend to make ties with the Chinese ports and create a protocol between them and the Port of Santos,” said Carvalho.

For him, import and export operations can be improved with a container tracking chip standard, for example. These new measures should surround the entire logistics chain.

“The meat that will be exported from the interior of São Paulo will leave the refrigerator in a container with a tracking chip. I track this cargo to the Port of Santos and quickly release it because the authorities will already have the information about the cargo. Then this cargo will also be cleared quickly when it arrives at the Port of Ningbo because we will make the connection between Chinese and Brazilian customs, the Chinese and the Brazilian port”.

The executive emphasizes that the relationship and the protocols will generate gains with the reduction of operating time and costs.

This month, Codesp hired the professional responsible for the Chinese office. This is Chiang Chia-Hung, who, in Brazil, adopted the name of Allan Chiang. He is a civil engineer graduated from the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo (USP).

Codesp informs that, in principle, the new contractor will stay in Brazil. Among Chiang’s missions are: to make ties between the Port of Santos with other ports in China, Asia and users, especially the owner of the cargo; improve the user experience in Santos and open the commercial representation of the Port in that continent.

“He is Chinese, speaks Mandarin, Cantonese, German, English, and Portuguese. He has a respected resume. We intend to set foot in China and show how to enter Brazil and, obviously, Santos,” said the executive.

Carvalho commented that one of the objectives is to translate, for example, customs regulations from the National Agency for Sanitary Surveillance (Anvisa) and the International Agricultural Surveillance System (Vigiagro) to Mandarin. “It is a way of encouraging the business to happen through the Port of Santos.”

Source: A Tribuna

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