China News Service, Nanning, September 18th (Luo Jie, Wu Kerong) At 11:36 am on September 17th, the X9574 train, which is full of daily necessities such as clothing and shoes, departed from Qinzhou Port East Station in Guangxi. , heading to Lhasa West Station in Tibet. This is the first "Beibu Gulf-Tibet" rail-sea combined transport train issued by the new western land-sea channel. "All provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities (municipalities directly under the Central Government) have all opened rail-sea combined transport trains in the new western land-sea channel.

　　It is understood that the goods of this train are expected to arrive in Lhasa, Tibet in 12-14 days, and then transfer to the country from the Geelong port by road, and finally arrive in Nepal, which saves about 20 days compared with the traditional shipping method.

　　On July 23, 2022, Huaihua City, Hunan Province signed the "Framework Agreement on Cooperative Construction of the New Western Land-Sea Corridor" and became one of the members of the "Friends Circle" of the Western Land-Sea New Corridor. The Western Land-Sea New Corridor officially formed 12 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities in the west. A new pattern of "13+2" co-construction with Hainan Province, Zhanjiang City of Guangdong Province, and Huaihua City of Hunan Province.

Under the framework of the joint construction of the "Belt and Road", the new channel connects China and ASEAN countries through various modes of transportation, effectively improving the level of cooperation between all parties and promoting the sharing of channel development results.

　　"In the past few years, the big family of the new western land-sea corridor has expanded from the initial cooperation between Chongqing and Guangxi to a new pattern of joint construction of domestic '13+2' provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities. It has expanded to 335 ports in 113 countries and regions, and the types of goods transported have increased from more than 50 in 2017 to more than 640, opening up a new path for logistics and transportation from the southern coast of my country to the western region and even South Asia." Huang Jiangnan, head of Qinzhou Gangdong Station of the Qinzhou Depot of the Coastal Railway Company of the Railway Nanning Bureau, said.

　　Before the opening of the new western land-sea passage, countries such as Indonesia and Malaysia export goods to the western region of my country, which need to be transported to the eastern coastal areas first, and then transported to the west by road or water, which takes up to a month.

After the opening of the new western land-sea passage, this time can be shortened by more than 10 days.

With the implementation of the "Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership" (RCEP), the economic and trade exchanges between the provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities along my country's corridors and ASEAN countries have become closer, driving their import and export volume to ASEAN to increase steadily.

Since the beginning of this year, 13 RCEP member countries have shipped goods through the new western land-sea corridor.

　　In order to improve the loading and unloading efficiency of rail-sea combined transport trains, the Coastal Railway Company of the National Railway Nanning Bureau has deepened the cooperation mechanism with ports, customs and other departments, extended the service scope of trains to customs declaration, inspection, box changing and other links, and accelerated the progress of enterprise declaration and inspection. , optimize the organization of the traffic flow, realize the rapid collection and delivery of vehicles, and ensure the priority planning, loading and unloading, and priority of the rail-sea intermodal trains.

As of September 13, the rail-sea intermodal trains of the new western land-sea channel have transported a total of 519,600 TEUs of goods, a year-on-year increase of 23.8%, showing a strong growth trend.

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