China News Service, Beijing, August 21 (Reporter Zhou Yin) China National Railway Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as the National Railway Group) disclosed that on the 21st, with the China-Europe freight train (Xi'an-Hamburg) departing from Xi'an International Port Station Since the beginning of this year, the total number of China-Europe trains has reached 10,000, which is 10,000 trains 10 days earlier than last year; this year, a total of 972,000 TEUs of goods have been sent, an increase of 5% year-on-year, and the comprehensive heavy container rate has reached 98.4%.
The person in charge of the freight department of China National Railway Group said that since the beginning of this year, China National Railway Group has actively promoted the high-quality development of China-Europe freight trains, and built an all-weather, large-volume, green, low-carbon, smooth and safe international logistics channel, in order to maintain the stability of the international industrial chain and supply chain. The smooth and high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road" provides strong support.
The person in charge introduced that the first is to strengthen international railway cooperation.
Make full use of the cooperation mechanism of the seven-country railway China-Europe freight train transportation joint working group, and strengthen cooperation with the railway departments of the countries along the line in terms of transportation organization, information sharing, equipment and infrastructure construction, etc., to improve the efficiency of international intermodal transportation.
This year, new railway-sea combined transport routes from Xi'an, Chongqing and other cities to Constanta, Romania via the Black Sea and Caspian Sea were opened. The pattern of the overseas channel network that is extended and interconnected by sea and land".
The second is to improve the quality of transportation services.
Make good use of the capacity of each channel, rationally arrange the opening plan, make full use of the port handover capacity, expand the international full-service logistics business, increase the organization of return trains, and promote the balanced transportation of two-way supply of goods. This year, the ratio of return trains to outbound trains has reached 88%.
The third is to strengthen infrastructure construction.
Steady progress was made in the implementation of the expansion and reconstruction projects of ports and rear passages such as Alashankou, Horgos, Manzhouli, and Erlian. At the same time, we actively coordinated with overseas railways to simultaneously improve the infrastructure capacity, and achieved a steady improvement in the capacity of domestic and foreign passages.
Since the beginning of this year, the average daily traffic volume of China-Europe freight trains in the west, middle and east passages has increased by 20.7%, 15.2% and 41.3% respectively compared with 2020 before the capacity expansion and reconstruction.
Fourth, strict epidemic prevention and control measures.
Strictly implement the general policy of "preventing imports from abroad and preventing rebound from within", efficiently coordinating epidemic prevention and control and the smooth operation of China-Europe trains. All railway port stations strictly implement closed-loop operation regulations such as "separation of people and goods, and segmented transportation", and implement the regulations on people and vehicles. The requirements of "four-person protection", material and environment, have minimized the impact of the epidemic on the transportation of China-Europe trains.
The person in charge emphasized that at present, the China-Europe Railway Express has laid out 82 operating routes, reaching 200 cities in 24 countries in Europe, and gradually "connecting points into lines" and "weaving lines into a network", and the transportation service network covers the whole of Europe. The categories of goods involve more than 50,000 categories in 53 categories, including clothes, shoes and hats, automobiles and accessories, grains, and wood.
The high-quality development of China-Europe freight trains has optimized the regional opening pattern, expanded economic and trade exchanges between China and Europe, deepened international capacity cooperation, accelerated the cross-border flow of factor resources, and injected strong impetus into the high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road".
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