Recently, Qingdao Free Trade Zone jointly with the municipal and district transport departments held Qingdao shipping policy promotion activities. Qingdao Transportation Bureau and Qingdao Free Trade Zone introduced the "15 Policies of Qingdao to Promote the High-quality Development of Shipping Industry" and "Measures to Support the high-quality Development of Shipping Service Industry" respectively.

    It is reported that the Qingdao Free Trade Zone recently issued the "Measures to support the high-quality Development of the Shipping Service Industry", which put forward 12 specific policies and measures around "strengthening the port hub function", "improving the level of shipping services" and "promoting the development of shipping talents". It includes supporting the development of the Marine transport industry, supporting the development of ship financing business, accelerating the expansion of the shipping insurance market, supporting the development of international ship supply, accelerating the layout of the high-end shipping industry, supporting the green and low-carbon development of ports, enriching the business types of ports and ports, and developing high value-added transshipment and assembly industries. The ship financing, shipping insurance, maritime technology and other industries will be rewarded up to 12 million yuan/year. In order to build a high-quality development environment, carry out high-quality investment promotion, enhance the coupling effect of shipping trade and finance, improve the comprehensive service capacity of shipping, and build a high-quality development policy guarantee.

    Among them, in order to improve the shipping service capacity and support the development of the Marine transport industry, the Measures provide that the waterway transport enterprises registered in the area will be newly built or purchased from outside the city of 5000 deadweight tons and above, own (including financial leasing) and legal operation, and the ship age within 10 years (including) will be given a one-time reward according to 100 yuan/deadweight ton. Ships aged 10 to 15 years (inclusive) will be given a one-time reward according to 80 yuan/DWT; Light rental capacity is subject to 50% incentive standard.

    At the same time, the Measures encourage financial institutions to increase support for the shipping industry, and provide certain support for financial leasing companies or financial leasing companies to carry out financial leasing businesses such as ships and port and shipping equipment; For the ship financing business carried out by shipping enterprises through financial institutions in the area, a certain proportion of special incentives shall be given according to the financing scale. Specifically, for the waterway transport enterprises registered in the area to build or purchase from outside the city to meet certain conditions, owned and legally operated vessels within 10 years or less, through the financial institutions in the area to carry out ship financing business, according to the actual financing scale to be given a special reward of 1.5%, the maximum reward of a single ship 400,000 yuan.