? ? ? ? Since the beginning of this year, the total number of China-Europe freight trains has reached 10,000, sending 972,000 TEUs of goods, an increase of 5 percent year-on-year.

? ? ? ? The head of freight Department of China National Railway Group Co., LTD introduced that the high-quality development of China-Europe freight trains and the construction of an all-weather, large volume, green, low-carbon, smooth and safe international logistics channel provide strong support for maintaining the stability and smooth flow of international industrial and supply chains and high-quality joint construction of the “Belt and Road”.

? ? ? ? This year, the railway departments new opening of xi ‘an, chongqing and other cities via the black sea, the Caspian sea to Romania constanta iron sea transport new lines, central Europe international freight trains and Laos railway train, the west Lu Haixin channel more closely with trains, promote “open efficient, multi-directional extension, sea and land connected” overseas channel network structure.

? ? ? ? At the same time, the railway department has intensified the organization of return freight trains and promoted the balanced transportation of two-way goods. This year, the proportion of return freight trains and outbound freight trains reached 88%. We steadily carried out capacity expansion and renovation projects at Alashankou, Khorgos, Manzhouli, Erlian and other ports and rear passageways, and actively coordinated overseas railways to upgrade their infrastructure capacity simultaneously, thus achieving a steady increase in the capacity of domestic and overseas passageways. Since the beginning of this year, the average daily volume of the west, middle and east passage of the China-Europe freight train has increased by 20.7%, 15.2% and 41.3% respectively compared with 2020 before capacity expansion and transformation.

? ? ? ? China-europe Freight Train: It is an international container railway intermodal train between China and Europe and countries along the Belt and Road, running according to fixed train numbers and routes. The China-Europe freight train has laid 82 routes, connecting the dots to 200 cities in 24 European countries, gradually “connecting the dots to the line” and “weaving the line into a network”. The transport service network covers the whole of Europe, covering 53 categories of goods, such as clothes, shoes and hats, cars and accessories, grain, wood and more than 50,000 categories.

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