The city’s Yangshan Immigration Inspection Station opened a green channel at dawn yesterday for a vessel carrying nearly 200 kilograms of Italian dough to make bread and other items for the second China International Import Expo, inspection officers said.

The vessel docked at the Yangshan port at 1:30am.

To ensure the dough could enter the country quickly, the frontier inspection station was in contact with the shipping company, agencies and the other departments at the port such as customs and the maritime safety authority.

They organized a joint plan on the vessel’s berth, inspection checks, customs clearance and entry in advance.

Before the vessel arrived, related departments obtained information online and started some procedures. After it arrived, officers from the immigration inspection station, customs and maritime safety authority went aboard to check the vessel, its crew and the goods at one time, guaranteeing that the dough could enter the country in the fastest way possible.

The shipping company said it took the vessel 34 days to pass the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea to get to Shanghai. The dough is unfermented. Considering that some areas of the Red Sea have high temperatures, which could affect the quality of the yeast, a constant temperature cold chain was used for the dough’s transport.