Xinjiang port vital channel for trade
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XINJIANG’S Karasu Customs, China‘s only land port open to Tajikistan, officially opened yesterday after 11 years of preparation.
The port, located at an altitude of 4,100 meters in northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, officially began its trial operation in May 2004. Due to heavy snow in the winter, which blocks roads and mountain passes, it can only operate from April 20 to the end of November.
Since opening, bilateral freight volume through the port rocketed from 833 tonnes in 2004 to 389,600 tonnes in 2014, with trade volume surging from US$1.68 million to US$1.99 billion in the same period.
Karasu Customs has cleared 1.4 million tonnes of goods worth US$7.8 billion over the past decade.
Last year, 78 percent of trade between China and Tajikistan was from Xinjiang, mainly conducted through Karasu Customs and Tajikistan‘s Kulma port on the other side of the border.
Customs commissioner Fei Lixin said Karasu Customs was a vital channel for trade, especially for Tajikistan, a landlocked country.
As one of the five ports in Kashgar linking China with Pakistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and India, Karasu Customs is a vital post along the planned China-Pakistan Economic Corridor.
China and Pakistan agreed to build the corridor during Premier Li Keqiang’s visit to Pakistan in May 2013.
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