General

A train consisting of 50 sets of containers, fully loaded with daily necessities, auto parts and other products, departed from Xiamen Haicang Station on the 2nd to Hamburg, Germany. This is the 1000th train of the China-Europe train (Xiamen).

Since the first China-Europe train (Xiamen) opened on August 16, 2015, the operating routes have been opened to China-Europe, Central Asia, and China-Russia trains, reaching Poznan, Poland, Budapest, Hungary, Hamburg, Germany, Duis Fort, Moscow, Russia, Almaty and Tashkent in Central Asia, and more than 30 cities in 12 countries.

At the same time, Taiwan, Hong Kong and neighboring countries such as Thailand, Vietnam, Japan, Indonesia, India and other neighboring countries share the convenience of sea-rail combined transportation. The goods can be shipped to Xiamen by sea to complete the transit transportation, which shortens the transportation time that originally took 30 to 40 days. Within 20 days.

Yu Jiangang, the beneficiary company of China-Europe Express and the general manager of the international business department of a company in Xiamen, said in an interview with a reporter from China News Agency that China-Europe Express provides the company with a faster and more convenient new logistics channel for Russia’s international trade, which is more economical than shipping. It took nearly two weeks of transportation time.

He introduced that the company's products exported to Russia mainly include light textile products such as clothing, shoes and accessories. The annual export volume is nearly 1,000 standard container containers. "Choosing the China-Europe Express train will enable its products to be quickly put on sale, seize market opportunities, speed up capital turnover, and save financial costs."

The circle of friends of China-Europe Express (Xiamen) is constantly expanding. Statistics show that in the past five years, the train has completed nearly 80,000 TEUs with a value of more than 3 billion U.S. dollars (including intercity cooperation trains). The types of goods cover electronics, machinery, daily necessities, food, wood products and other categories. There are more than a thousand kinds of sub-products.

In the past five years, China-Europe Express (Xiamen) has launched inter-city cooperation express trains, carried out export consolidation services, opened up sea-rail combined transport routes, carried out cross-border multimodal transport, and helped Xiamen enterprises to "go global." Upgraded to the advantages of the channel economy, its development trajectory presents many characteristics such as innovation, coordination, and openness.

At the same time, Xiamen takes advantage of the core area of "Silk Road Maritime Transport", effectively combines China-Europe Express (Xiamen) with multiple modes of transportation, develops a multimodal transport business centered on rail transport, and forms a unique advantage in cross-border cargo sea-rail transport. .