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Today (19th), a freight train with a length of 777 meters and a whopping 50 cars succeeded in test operation on the Gyeongbu Line.
If you load a lot of cargo at once in this way, you can save that much transportation cost and reduce environmental pollution.
This is reporter Jae Hee-won.
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freight train loaded with containers exits the tunnel with its tail on its tail.
The total length is 777m, equivalent to the height of Mt. Bukhansan, and it is a 50-cargo train.
Compared to the KTX running on the next track, it is more than double the length.
Existing freight trains can carry up to 33 cars, but about 1,200 tons, 1.5 times more, can be moved at one time.
It has already been commercialized in the United States and China, where the land area is large, but this is the first time that a 50-car freight train has actually operated in Korea.
KORAIL expects that transporting so many at once will lower the transportation cost and reduce the number of trucks operating, thereby reducing environmental pollution and accidents at the same time.
[Kwon Oh-kyung/Professor of Asia Pacific Logistics Department, Inha University: (railway) is an important means of transporting industrial products, raw materials and intermediate goods (railroad economics improves), so consumers can ultimately benefit.]
KOREA In the future, the company plans to increase the number of stations where 50-car freight trains can load and unload goods, and also develop and commercialize a technology for loading and moving containers onto trucks.
(Video editing: Choi Hye-young)