Recently, at the "Charting a Strong Maritime Course for 2026, Empowering Long Voyages" Taizhou Ship Export Resource Connection and Exchange event, the professional interpretation of convenient policies such as "Full Online Processing" and "Acceptance with Missing Documents" by staff from the Taizhou Maritime Safety Administration attracted numerous shipbuilding enterprise representatives to stop and inquire. This is a vivid example of the bureau's targeted services for the local shipbuilding industry and its efforts to optimize the port business environment. In recent years, Taizhou's shipbuilding industry has shown strong development momentum, with a cumulative total of 97 ships exported throughout 2025, achieving an industrial output value of 11 billion yuan. Behind this impressive "going global" report card lies the continuous efforts of the Taizhou Maritime Safety Administration across three dimensions: efficiency, safety, and service.
Harnessing efficiency for momentum, the bureau works to clear export "bottlenecks." It focuses on deepening the "Digitalization + Government Services" reform, comprehensively implementing "Full Online Processing" for ship export business, and leveraging the International Trade "Single Window" to break down data barriers, allowing enterprises to "log in once and complete everything online." Simultaneously, it deeply integrates port joint inspection procedures, optimizes "one-stop" services, and implements parallel approval with time-limited completion. Addressing urgent and difficult issues for enterprises, it innovatively implements a notification-commitment and acceptance-with-missing-documents mechanism, effectively resolving "logjams" caused by the temporary absence of non-critical materials. This has significantly compressed overall approval times, pressing the "fast-forward button" for ship delivery and export.
Demanding safety as the baseline, the bureau builds a robust "barrier" for出海 (going to sea). While enhancing customs clearance efficiency, it consistently upholds strict supervision, firmly guarding the safety lifeline. On one hand, it moves inspection and supervision checkpoints forward, strengthening the tonnage measurement and construction quality supervision of newly built ships planned for export, thus controlling the "factory exit gate" from the source. On the other hand, for higher-risk second-hand ships undergoing flag change for export, it has established and strictly enforces a filing verification and 100% Port State Control (PSC) inspection mechanism, focusing particularly on the condition of key ship equipment and the practical skills of the crew. Since the beginning of this year, 24 PSC inspections have been conducted, resulting in the detention of 5 vessels with deficiencies, effectively preventing unseaworthy ships from entering the international market and safeguarding the reputation of "Made in Taizhou" ships.
Tapping into service for potential, the bureau cultivates fertile "soil" for development. The Taizhou Maritime Safety Administration proactively shifts from "waiting for approvals" to "providing on-site services," establishing a regular enterprise visitation mechanism. Bureau leaders lead teams deep into shipyards for on-site investigations and to coordinate solutions for practical difficulties faced by enterprises in registry transfer and port clearance. Addressing the insufficient port opening resources for ship repair and building enterprises in some counties (cities, districts), the bureau actively researches and proposes constructive suggestions to superior authorities and relevant departments for optimizing the layout, striving to create more favorable fundamental conditions for enterprises to expand their international business in the long term.
It is reported that in the next step, the Taizhou maritime authorities will continue to focus on the local marine economic development strategy, further deepen the reform of maritime regulatory services, and persistently exert effort in areas such as smart supervision, risk prevention and control, and industrial coordination. With safer, more efficient, and more convenient maritime safeguards, they will fully escort Taizhou's shipbuilding giants towards the broader deep blue.