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In the first seven months, more than 11,000 China-Europe freight trains were launched

2024-08-11

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Beijing, August 10, Economic Daily (Reporter Qi Hui) According to data from China State Railway Group Co., Ltd., in the first seven months of this year, a total of 11,403 China-Europe trains were launched, shipping 1.226 million TEUs of goods, up 12% and 11% year-on-year respectively. Among them, 1,776 trains were launched in July, shipping 185,000 TEUs of goods, and more than 1,700 trains were launched in a single month for three consecutive months.

The head of the Freight Department of the China Railway Corporation introduced that since the beginning of this year, the China Railway Corporation has continued to improve the operating quality and efficiency of the China-Europe express trains, effectively ensuring the stability and smooth operation of the international supply chain and industrial chain, and injecting new impetus into high-level opening up to the outside world.

Strengthen channel capacity building and improve the transportation efficiency of China-Europe trains. Strengthen domestic and international transportation coordination, strengthen the construction of China-Europe train channels, improve port transshipment capabilities, and promote fast customs clearance models. In the first seven months, the number of China-Europe trains on the three main transportation channels of the west, middle and east increased by 15%, 22% and 2% year-on-year respectively.

Expand the scale of China-Europe trains in the full timetable and improve the operation quality of China-Europe trains. The scale of China-Europe trains in the full timetable has been continuously expanded. Since the implementation of the third batch of full timetables in mid-June, 17 trains have been running steadily every week, including routes from Xi'an, Chengdu, Chongqing, Yiwu to Duisburg, Germany, and Lodz, Poland.