The Yangtze River Delta China-Europe Freight trains strongly support the resumption of work and production

Source: People's Daily Online by Shen Wenmin 2022-06-09 09:10:09

In the first five months of this year, the Yangtze River Delta Railway operated 1,135 China-Europe freight trains, up 8.8 percent year on year, and shipped 110,600 standard containers of cargo, up 6.5 percent year on year. Overall, the operation of freight trains showed a trend of steady growth. Among them, 235 trains were opened in May, up 12.4% month-on-month and 14.1% year on year, giving strong support to the resumption of work and production in Shanghai and other places.

China Railway Shanghai Bureau Group Co., Ltd. has given full play to the role of The China-Europe freight train service, made every effort to undertake the transfer of goods, and continuously improved the transportation efficiency and operation quality of the China-Europe freight train service, so as to ensure the safety and smooth operation of the international railway transport corridor.

In terms of organization and coordination, the Railway departments of the Yangtze River Delta gave full play to the advantages of centralized and unified dispatch and command, strengthened close cooperation with the China-Europe freight train platform companies and customs in Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui and other places, found out the source of goods and the demand for freight train operation, made every effort to increase freight capacity, and made detailed plans for freight train operation.

"Our products are mainly sold to European countries, and the railway authorities continue to optimize the plan and ensure the transportation time, which has saved us a lot of logistics costs." Zhu Weidong, manager of Zhejiang Sinotrans Ningbo Shipping Agency Co., LTD, said that from January 2021 to May this year, the company has exported nearly 1,600 standard container goods to European countries on the Jinhua to Dueril freight train, helping local manufacturing and products better "go global".

Since the first China-Europe freight train service was launched in Yiwu, Zhejiang Province in November 2014, a total of 12 China-Europe freight train service lines have been opened to Spain, Russia, Belarus, Latvia, the United Kingdom, the Czech Republic and other countries. The structure and value of commodities exported by Yiwu China-Europe Freight Train are constantly optimized, and the types of returned imported products are also extended from milk, red wine, raw materials to machinery, equipment, wood and furniture. In the first five months of this year, a total of 486 china-Europe express trains in Yiwu ran and transported 23,700 standard containers, with the number of trains and freight volume growing steadily. At present, the Yangtze River Delta region has formed the characteristics of small commodities as the main source of goods from Yiwu to some European countries, electronic products and electrical appliances as the main source of goods from Suzhou to Hamburg, Germany and Warsaw, Poland, and white appliances and mechanical products as the main source of goods from Hefei to Hamburg, Germany.

Yangtze river delta central trains has become a major method of international road transport logistics, for regional foreign trade has opened up a safe and stable, efficient, high-quality, green low carbon logistics channel, pick up the commodity structure optimization, route layout for rich, balanced to return trains, the "door to door" transportation, constantly emerging of new services such as forms, in the transportation industry will markedly enhance its creativity.

Responsible editor: Ge Yan