China News Service, Guangzhou, July 1st (Reporter Guo Jun) At 10 o'clock on July 1st, the four China-Europe Express trains with full cargo of Sinotrans Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Sinotrans") sounded the horns at the same time. "Arrows are coming together", slowly departing from Guangzhou Zengcheng West Station, Shenzhen Pinghu South Station, Dongguan Shilong Station, and Changsha North Station. After half a month of trekking, they will finally reach Duisburg, Germany and Russia respectively. Volsino, Minsk, Belarus.
It is reported that this is the first time that Sinotrans has issued multiple trains at the same time. It is also the first time that Guangzhou Zengcheng West Railway Station opened the ASEAN trains on May 25 and successfully opened the new "Guangzhou Zengcheng-Korgos-Duisburg" new train. line.
The four China-Europe trains carried a total of 200 containers. The types of goods mainly included anti-epidemic materials, toys, lamps, bicycle frames, electronic products, and furniture.
The China-Europe Express Train departs from Changsha North Station. Photo by Zhang Xuemei
On May 21, after the outbreak of the new crown epidemic in Shenzhen Yantian Port, the operation of Yantian Port was blocked. International liner companies adjusted their routes and switched to other ports. This directly led to the general congestion of major ports in South China, and a large number of export goods were stranded in South China, and there was an urgent need to expand logistics. The channel guides the cargo.
Sinotrans, Guangzhou Railway Group and China Railway Containers Guangzhou Branch are actively planning to strive for more China-Europe express delivery plans to provide more space for goods urgently needed to be exported to Europe in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and even southern China to solve the transportation problem.
The China-Europe train departs from Shenzhen Pinghu South Station. Photo by Zhang Xuemei
In order to ensure the scheduled operation of the "July 1" train, the customs in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Dongguan, and Changsha have restructured the supervision of the China-Europe train and further streamlined and streamlined the supervision of the China-Europe train under the premise of ensuring strict supervision and control. Optimize the customs clearance process, and shorten the fastest customs clearance time by more than 50%.
The Guangzhou Railway Group will focus on the "July 1" train during its operations to ensure that the train's cargo can be safely and quickly delivered to the destination.
With the joint efforts of all parties, Sinotrans's four operating outlets in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Dongguan, and Changsha, China-Europe freight trains, successfully set sail on July 1.
Sinotrans has participated in the construction of China-Europe-Central Asia trains since 2013. At present, it has established four China-Europe trains operating outlets in South China: "Guangzhou Zengcheng West + Shenzhen Pinghu + Dongguan Shilong + Changsha North Station", and has formed a connection to all directions. The China-Europe Express Railway freight network will connect its own rich logistics network with the China-Europe Express network to form a new development pattern of parallel development of sea and land, and internal and external cycles.
China-Europe Express Train departs from Dongguan Shilong Station. Photo by Zhang Xuemei
In order to meet the needs of different types of customers, Sinotrans China-Europe Express trains at the four operating outlets in southern China provide both "carpooling" services and customized "car-sharing" services. Among them, the China-Europe Express (Guangzhou Zengcheng West Station, Shenzhen Pinghu South Station) takes Europe and ASEAN countries as the main markets, and relies on a comprehensive international hub port cluster, focusing on creating a sea-rail multimodal transport logistics linking the "One Belt" and "One Road" The main artery connects the EU and ASEAN countries efficiently. China-Europe Express (Shilong) takes Russia and Central Asian countries as its main markets, with boutique and customized trains as its operating direction. In the first half of the year, Midea, an electronics manufacturing company in Guangdong, provided a total of eight customized trains. China-Europe Express (Changsha) has combined the characteristics of local industries to create a "customized" manufacturing line, and formulated special logistics plans for 114 manufacturing industries including Sany Heavy Industry, achieving a high degree of integration with the manufacturing industry. Among them, the Changsha-Minsk line will have 14 flights a week at its peak in 2020, accounting for nearly 50% of the national market share of the line, ranking first in the country and becoming a national star train. (Finish)