Nine new policies in the Ministry of Transport to facilitate the development of sea direct flights

May 16, in Xiamen, the cross-Strait Sea direct sailing Round Table, the Ministry of Transport and Transport Bureau director Song Star announced nine further cross-strait direct shipping measures, and several mainland airlines, including Cosco Group, Ningbo Port, and other companies have expressed their desire to strengthen cooperation with Taiwan enterprises.　　The nine new policies announced by the Ministry of Transport involve direct port, capacity regulation, sand and gravel transportation, mutual tax exemption, mutual establishment, cross-strait registration of ships, non-commercial transport vessels, linkage implementation mechanism and maritime safety five, especially in the direct port, capacity control, mutual tax exemption and mutual establishment of institutions have attracted much attention. Song said, first of all, the mainland has increased 5 direct ports (port), they are: Tongling port, Shidao port, Laizhou, Taizhou port Barley Port area, Ningbo-Zhoushan Port Shen Door port area.　　Up to now, the mainland has a total of 68 ports (port) for cross-strait Direct shipping port.　　Secondly, according to the principle of "equal participation, orderly competition, according to market demand, reasonable arrangement of capacity" in accordance with the "cross-Strait maritime agreement", in order to avoid the blind growth of capacity, the vicious competition will be based on the market supply and demand, and the capacity of container liner, passenger ship and bulk　　Third, from December 15, 2008 onwards, mainland China's Taiwan shipping companies engaged in the Cross-strait Maritime direct business in the mainland to obtain the transport income and revenue, exempt from business tax and corporate income tax.　　In addition, the mainland has made arrangements for the implementation of the mutual establishment of the cross-Strait maritime agreement, and the Taiwanese shipping companies are welcome to invest and set up operating institutions in China. Song said that since December 15 last year, the opening quantity of cross-strait ports and the large number of navigable vessels has developed, resulting in volume growth, so that the direct market in the context of the financial crisis against the trend. Wang Longxiong, chairman of Evergreen Shipping, said, "in the context of the financial tsunami, the two sides have to hold a group of heating."　　"It is noteworthy that in the Round Table forum, including evergreen Shipping, Cosco Group, Yang Ming Sea and other shipping companies have made suggestions for further development of direct flights, and the introduction of the nine new policies, many are precisely the echoes of these recommendations." Wang Longxiong pointed out that since the cross-strait direct flights, the company has cut the curve to take straight, saving time and aviation oil costs, thus reducing operating costs by 15%-30%. At the same time, direct flights have also led to the development of shipping-related industries, including ports. According to the Taiwan Transportation Department at the end of February, the voyage between the two sides of the ship was increased from the 2008 38 voyage to the 2009 118 voyage.　　Benefiting from this, the original in the world Port throughput ranked in the decline of the port of Kaohsiung, its loading and unloading cross-strait trade volume from last December 16,000 TEU, increased to March 76,000 TEU, loading and unloading volume increased 4.6 times times. COSCO Group Vice President Shangyu that the cross-strait shipping authorities should establish a regular high-level meeting mechanism, the establishment of mutually agreed ship standards, and gradually orderly open up the market, to promote land-funded enterprises to invest in Taiwan toand tracking tax exemption policy. Wang Zhaoji, vice president of Yang Ming Shipping AG, suggested that the future cross-strait shipping management should be more institutionalized, perhaps to consider relaxing the qualification of operating vessels. Cai Shengkang, vice president of Ningbo Port Group, suggested that the function of the port should be further expanded to explore the joint venture port and shipping business.