On November 13, the X8402 train carrying 100 TEUs of export goods departed from Suzhou West Railway Station with a whistle and headed for Hamburg, the second largest city in Germany, marking the 10,000th train volume of the Suzhou China-Europe Express train this year.
Hamburg is located in the northwest of Germany, close to the estuary of the Elbe River. It has the largest port in Germany, the Port of Hamburg. This is the largest transportation hub of China-Europe Railway Express in Germany, radiating Germany and other European countries.
After the export goods of the Suzhou China-Europe Express train arrive in Hamburg, they will be loaded on other trains, ships, and cars here, and then distributed to other places to help Europe fight the epidemic and restore economic and social order.
At present, the new crown pneumonia epidemic is still spreading rapidly around the world, and shipping and air transportation are greatly affected.
The China-Europe Express has made up for the losses of foreign trade companies due to the impact of the epidemic on aviation and shipping. The railway department has given full play to its advantages such as fast timeliness, all-weather, and segmented transportation to provide "one-to-one", "one-stop" and "one-stop" "Customized services, implementing the "five priorities" of inspection, disinfection, vehicle distribution, loading, and trailer transportation, to ensure unimpeded and efficient operation of all links, and play a strategic role in restoring foreign trade enterprises' production capacity and sales, smooth production and circulation cycles. .
According to statistics, from January this year to now, 218 trains have been opened in Suzhou, a year-on-year increase of 6%. A total of about 20,000 TEUs have embarked on the "New Silk Road", and the quality of trains has been continuously improved.
Since its opening in 2013, the Suzhou China-Europe Express has successively opened routes to Hamburg in Germany, Moscow in Russia, Hanoi in Vietnam, and five countries in Central Asia, reaching 12 international node cities in 8 countries including Germany, Poland, Vietnam, and Uzbekistan. A total of 960 trains have been shipped, serving thousands of regional foreign trade companies, making important contributions to boosting the high-quality integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta, maintaining the stability of the international industrial chain supply chain, and smoothing the domestic and international dual cycles.
(Main Station CCTV reporter Wu Rui)