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In the eyes of practitioners in China's wood industry, multimodal transport has been a logistics model with great discussion heat.

In recent years, the development momentum of multimodal transport in South China has become stronger and stronger, just like the sea rail transport and water land transport in Nansha port, Guangzhou. Its rapid rise has further optimized and improved the logistics channel of imported timber in South China, bringing support and toughness to the breakthrough of the timber industry.

Take the sea railway special train of imported timber in the direction of Jiangmen as an example. It is understood that this train starts from Nansha Port South Station and can reach Jiangmen North Station (Heshan) or Jiangmen station (Xinhui) within 48 hours. The logistics timeliness and cost are very obvious.

"Compared with the port direct drag mode, the cost of sea rail intermodal transportation to Jiangmen is reduced by at least 20%. This is very attractive for timber merchants who are in the sensitive period of logistics cost." Some market participants said so. At present, the "Nansha Port Jiangmen" sea rail intermodal train for imported timber mainly involves timber from Southeast Asia and Africa, such as HEVEA WOOD, chenguibao (scientific name: paired ancient Yisu wood), Xiaoba flower (scientific name: sheath seed ancient Yisu wood), African Ebony (scientific name: Aili ancient Yisu wood), etc.

Industry analysts believe that since the beginning of this year, China US trade and the COVID-19 have greatly increased trade costs, geopolitical risks and the vulnerability of the global supply chain, and these impacts on key regional factors such as production and operation costs, end markets and production capacity of China's timber industry are also obvious. In the context of great changes in the timber industry chain and supply chain, the successful opening of the "Nansha Port Jiangmen" imported timber sea rail special train has made more timber operators feel the advantages of the new logistics mode of sea rail intermodal transport. Sea rail intermodal transport has become a frequent visitor to the hot discussion list of Jiangmen imported timber market, bringing its own "flow" and realizing broken circle communication again and again.

It is reported that as of May 25, the "Nansha Port Jiangmen" sea rail intermodal train for imported timber has successfully opened two stations, Jiangmen North Station (Heshan) and Jiangmen station (Xinhui), with a cumulative container capacity of nearly 6000 TEU. The frequency of operation has been greatly increased from the initial "two shifts a week" to the current "two shifts a day" (the special train has only been in operation for threeorfour months). Guangzhou Nansha port is practicing the "acceleration" of the development of sea rail intermodal transport with practical actions.