There is a substantial increase in the demand for disaster relief and post-disaster re-building materials. Recently, a great batch of materials made in Zhejiang have been transported to the disaster-hit areas in Japan.
Quite a few manufacturers of food and daily necessities have been expediting orders from Japan during the recent period.
With the increasing demand for post-disaster re-building materials, Hangzhou Customs has opened a green channel in each of the main Japan-related customs clearance ports in its precinct, where officials have been arranged to be on duty, cargoes are checked immediately after arrival, priorities are given to the work meant to ensure the disaster relief materials a speedy clearance procedures so that the logistic time could be shortened as much as possible. Meanwhile, Hangzhou Customs has sent key personnel to visit Japan-related enterprises in the precinct, learning the recent information about export to Japan so that intervention and arrangement could be made in advance for the purpose of ensuring the smooth passages through customs clearances ports of post-disaster re-building materials.