Auto & Transportation

In the first five months of this year, the Yangtze River Delta Railway operated a total of 1,135 China-Europe trains, an increase of 8.8% year-on-year, and shipped 110,600 standard containers of goods, an increase of 6.5% year-on-year. Among them, 235 trains were opened in May, a month-on-month increase of 12.4% and a year-on-year increase of 14.1%, which strongly supported the resumption of work and production in Shanghai and other places.

China Railway Shanghai Bureau Group Co., Ltd. gives full play to the role of China-Europe freight trains, and makes every effort to undertake the transfer of goods sources, so as to ensure all connections and shipments as required, continuously improve the transportation efficiency and operation quality of China-Europe freight trains, and ensure the safety and smoothness of international railway transportation channels.

In terms of organization and coordination of opening trips, the Yangtze River Delta Railway Department took advantage of centralized and unified dispatching and commanding, and strengthened close cooperation with China-Europe train platform companies and customs in Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui and other places to find out the supply of goods and the needs of trains. Do everything possible to increase the freight capacity and formulate the train operation plan in detail.

"Our company's products are mainly sold to European countries. The railway department continues to optimize the plan, and the transportation time is guaranteed, which saves us a lot of logistics costs." said Zhu Weidong, manager of Zhejiang Sinotrans Ningbo Shipping Agency Co., Ltd., from January 2021 to In May of this year, the company exported nearly 1,600 standard containers of goods to European countries on the Jinhua-Durges train, helping local manufacturing and products to better "go global".

Since the opening of the China-Europe freight train in Yiwu, Zhejiang in November 2014, a total of 12 China-Europe freight train lines have been opened to Spain, Russia, Belarus, Latvia, the United Kingdom, and the Czech Republic. The products exported by Yiwu China-Europe freight trains have been continuously optimized in structure and the value of goods has been continuously improved. The types of imported products on the return journey also extend from milk, red wine, raw materials, etc. to machinery and equipment, wood furniture, etc. In the first five months of this year, Yiwu China-Europe freight trains operated 486 trains and transported 23,700 standard containers. The number of trains and freight volume increased steadily. At present, the Yangtze River Delta region has formed the main source of goods from Yiwu to some European countries, with electronic products and electrical appliances as the main source of goods from Suzhou to Hamburg, Germany, and Warsaw, Poland, and from Hefei to Hamburg, Germany, with white goods and mechanical products as the main source of goods. Goods category characteristics.

The Yangtze River Delta China-Europe freight train has become an important way of international logistics land transportation, which has opened up a safe, stable, efficient, high-quality, green and low-carbon logistics channel for regional foreign trade. The trains are becoming more and more balanced, and new service formats such as "door-to-door" transportation and continuous transportation continue to emerge, and the industry's innovation capability has been significantly enhanced.