According to reports, the Ministry of Transport recently held its eighth regular press conference in 2017 and revised and issued the "Port Charge and Billing Measures." Wu Chungeng, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Transport, said that the "Measures" will further improve the port price formation mechanism, and it is expected that the shipping companies will be able to reduce the burden by 200 million yuan each year.

According to reports, the "Measures" mainly includes four aspects:

First, the tugboat fee is charged according to the tug horsepower and the time of use, adjusted to be calculated according to the size and type of the towed vessel, and the unit price of the tugboat fee is unified.

The second is to increase the first gear (from 80,000 net tons to 120,000 net tons) and impose a ceiling on the fixed standard for the pilotage of over 120,000 net tons. At the same time, each piloting agency is required to actively promote “sunshine pilotage” to further improve the pilotage service level.

The trick is to include the port operation fees of domestic passenger and tourist vessels in the scope of the port operation fee. This fee is paid by the domestic passenger transport enterprises to port operators and is no longer directly charged to passengers.

Fourth, it is clear that the tally service fee will be market-regulated, and the provincial-level transportation authorities should speed up the introduction of a competition mechanism, continue to stimulate market vitality, and strengthen market supervision and self-discipline.

Wu Chungeng said that since 2014, the United Nations Development and Reform Commission of the Ministry of Transport has issued a series of port price reform policies and measures, reducing service charges for port operations from 45 to 18, reducing fees and setting up and implementing ports. Operational service charge list and public announcement system. It is estimated that each year, import and export companies and shipping companies can reduce their losses by 1 billion yuan. The revised "Measures" were issued to further improve the pricing mechanism for the port. It is expected that the shipping companies will be able to reduce the burden by 200 million yuan each year.