China News Network Changsha, April 23 (correspondent Yuan Tingxuan, Wu Ping, Chen Hua) At 22:01 on April 22, a China-Europe train full of hardware accessories, textiles, daily necessities and other goods departed from Changsha North Station and headed for The port of Minsk in Belarus is the 100th China-Europe train leaving Hunan this year. Since the beginning of this year, the number of Hunan-European trains has increased by 122% compared with the same period last year.
According to the Guangzhou Railway Group, since the beginning of this year, the railway freight, platform companies, customs, and parks have established a communication mechanism and formulated a number of convenient measures. In accordance with the principle of "priority organization, priority loading and unloading, and priority inspection", the operation process has been continuously optimized to China-Europe trains have opened up green and fast channels to achieve rapid and seamless docking of transportation, inspection and transhipment, ensuring the safety, stability, efficiency and smoothness of China-Europe trains during special periods.
According to Yan Minghui, director of the dispatching and duty office of the Changsha Freight Center, according to the needs of customers, the freight center timely declares the opening plan, equips the empty car in place one day in advance, and facilitates the cargo owner to load the car. The task is convenient for the car service department to arrange the car, and the departure regularity rate of the train is more than 99%.
Under the severe situation of overseas epidemics, many enterprises' original logistics channels have been affected to varying degrees, logistics costs have increased significantly, and the advantages of low cost and high timeliness of China-Europe trains have gradually emerged.
"China-Europe trains have low transportation costs and strong timeliness, which is very suitable for cross-border goods such as electronic products and daily necessities that we send." Liu Biao, assistant general manager of Hunan Huifeng International Freight Forwarding Co., Ltd., was quite touched by this. At the beginning, most of the air passages were suspended, and large quantities of cross-border e-commerce goods urgently needed to find new outlets. A few days ago, more than 6,000 pieces of goods purchased by foreign merchants and individuals through the company's network platform have been packed and will be sent out through the China-Europe train.
As for the reasons why the number of Hunan-European trains has increased against this trend this year, Chen Hongsheng, assistant general manager of Hunan Zhongnan International Land Port Co., Ltd., a source organization platform company of China-Europe Trains (Changsha), said that on the one hand, due to the demand for overseas living materials and epidemic prevention materials Significant growth; on the other hand, because Hunan ’s manufacturing companies, especially heavy industry equipment companies and other manufacturing companies have gone abroad, and related products and equipment have been sent to Europe and Central Asia. "Made in Hunan" went abroad through the China-Europe train. (Finish)