China News Service, Chongqing, April 25 (Han Lu Wang Lei) At 6:37 in the morning on the 25th, a China-Europe Express (Yuxin-Europe) train with a parcel container slowly pulled out of the station, marking the China-Europe Express (Yuxin-Europe) (Europe) The international parcel container broke the 1,000-box mark.
"Behind these 1,000 international parcel containers is an important breakthrough in transnational railway transportation." Zhang Xin, the station director of Tuanjiecun Station of China Railway Chengdu Bureau Group Corporation, said that the China-Europe Express (Chongqing-Xinou) International Parcel Service is mainly based on Lithuanian routes. The line has become an important channel for the emergency evacuation of international mail.
International parcels used to be a restricted area for railway transportation.
The "International Railway Freight Transport Agreement" promulgated by the Railway Cooperation Organization in 1956 stipulates that the delivery of special postal items is not allowed in the international railway direct freight transport.
Five years ago, Chongqing became China's first railway postal pilot city approved by the General Administration of Customs.
After successfully completing the entire postal delivery test on the China-Europe Express (Chongqing-Xinou-Europe) outbound and return express train, the history of international railway postal delivery has been rewritten accordingly.
"The launch of the shipping and postal test in the China-Europe Express (Chongqing-Xinou) in the past was an opportunity to target the rapid development of cross-border e-commerce." The relevant person in charge of the Chongqing Port and Logistics Office said that the sudden new crown epidemic made this innovation a service An important part of the global fight against the epidemic.
The new crown pneumonia epidemic that has spread globally since last year has led to the gradual suspension of international passenger routes by foreign airlines, and the international parcel transportation that originally relied on air transportation was once stranded.
According to data from the postal department, there were as many as 1,500 tons of international mail waiting for evacuation at the traditional entry and exit postal ports.
"In May of last year, the China-Europe Express (Chongqing-Xinou) first launched a special train for epidemic prevention materials, transporting 86 TEUs, masks, gowns, gloves and other epidemic prevention materials worth 13.43 million euros to Poland, and continued transportation of epidemic prevention materials since then." Zhang Xin said that since then, in the face of the stranded parcels during the epidemic, China-Europe Express (Chongqing-Xinou) has also actively carried out emergency evacuation of a large number of stranded parcels.
Up to now, the China-Europe Express (Chongqing-Xin-Europe) Express has shipped a total of 445,100 mail bags, with a mail weight of 6,171 tons and a cargo value of approximately US$300 million.
“In the next step, the station will actively accelerate the construction of import channels, strengthen coordination and cooperation with customs, government and postal departments, and promote the upgrade of China-Europe Express (Chongqing-Xin-Europe) shipping and post from normal operation to large-scale operation.” Zhang Xin Say.
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