Trucks carrying fresh vegetables and fruits clear customs at Ceke Port in Inner Mongolia. [Photo/Alshaa League Integrated Media Center]

A five-metric-ton shipment of high-quality fresh vegetables, including cucumbers, eggplants, and tomatoes, cleared customs on Dec 12 at Ceke Port in North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region and was exported to Mongolia. This marks the first time fresh vegetables have been exported from Ceke Port to Mongolia.

"The exported vegetables come from premium domestic farming bases. They have undergone strict quality control and coordinated transportation before finally reaching major markets in Mongolia", said a representative from Ejine Kunlun Nvren Industry Co.

"This export of vegetables further diversifies the range of activities at Ceke Port, effectively broadening new avenues for Sino-Mongolian cooperation and injecting fresh vitality into the foreign trade economy," stated Hao Quanlong, an official from the Ejine Customs.

Boxes of fresh vegetables and fruits are loaded onto a truck before export to Mongolia. [Photo/Alshaa League Integrated Media Center]

Historically, Mongolia's imports of essential goods such as fruits, vegetables, rice, and butter have been transported through the Ereenhot Port in Inner Mongolia to Ulaanbaatar, the capital, and then transshipped to the South Gobi Province. This process has resulted in high transportation costs, long cycles, and poor product freshness.

Establishing the vegetable export route from Ceke Port to Mongolia facilitates transporting imported fruits and vegetables directly to the South Gobi Province and Ulaanbaatar, significantly reducing costs and improving product freshness.

Ceke Port will expand cooperation with Mongolia, striving to enhance foreign trade and port development levels. It aims to comprehensively form a development pattern integrating coal washing and processing, meat import processing, border trade, foreign trade logistics, and culture and tourism.

Customs officials check vegetables before exporting to Mongolia. [Photo/Alshaa League Integrated Media Center]