Chinanews.com, February 20th (Reporter Xie Yiguan) At the Guangzhou Eastern Highway-Railway Intermodal Transport Hub, under the gantry crane, there are many colorful containers. The shuttle transport vehicles transport various high-quality products to the China-Europe Railway Express that stops next to the project park.
The "Made in China" train departing from here will arrive in Europe thousands of miles away in half a month. The "Guangzhou speed" of the international train is amazing.
The picture shows the China Railway Express passing by.
Photo by China-Singapore Finance and Economics reporter Xie Yiguan
A total of about 400 trains have been opened, creating a "Guangzhou speed" for international trains
The Guangzhou Eastern Highway-Railway Intermodal Transport Hub is located at the core of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area freight railway network, seamlessly connecting with the Guangzhou-Shibai Railway (Zengcheng West Station), and the railway freight trains cover the whole country in 5 days and reach Europe and Asia in 15 days.
"Currently, Guangzhou's eastern highway-railway transport hub runs 4-5 China-Europe trains and 1-3 China-Old trains every week. Basically, there are trains running every day." The relevant person in charge of the hub company of Guangzhou Communications Investment Group said.
On May 25, 2021, the first ASEAN train departs from here.
According to the above-mentioned person in charge, since the first train was launched, Zengcheng West Railway Station, a public transport hub in eastern Guangzhou, has organized and operated about 400 international trains.
According to public data, in 2022 alone, Guangzhou Communications Investment Group will organize and operate 300 international trains in the eastern Guangzhou highway-rail transport hub, with a total of 27,020 TEUs and an export value of 1.1 billion US dollars. The operating lines cover China, Europe (Russia), Central Asia and ASEAN, reaching 17 cities in 10 countries.
As the trade between China and the countries along the "Belt and Road" continues to deepen, the above-mentioned person in charge said that it is expected to open 500 international trains in 2023, and strive to open more than 1,000 trains by the end of the "14th Five-Year Plan", forming a pool of global resources Enter the bay area and the domestic and international circulation dual channels with global resources in the bay area, give full play to the function of the radial strategic economic corridor of "wide goods and wide exports", and build the eastern Guangzhou highway-rail combined transport hub into the assembly center of international trains in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
The picture shows the gantry cranes hanging down a lot of containers.
Photo by China-Singapore Finance and Economics reporter Xie Yiguan
With a total investment of more than 100 billion yuan, the construction of a national logistics hub is underway
Located at the intersection of the economic belt on both sides of the Pearl River and the technological innovation belt in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and at the apex of the "Golden Inner Bay" 100 kilometers around the Pearl River Estuary, Guangzhou Eastern Highway-Railway Intermodal Transport Hub has also become the "Zengcheng District" for high-quality development by virtue of its superior geographical location. main battlefield".
At present, the construction of the first phase of the Guangzhou Eastern Highway-Railway Intermodal Transport Hub Project is being stepped up.
It is reported that this project, as a major national construction project, is one of the four national logistics hubs in Guangzhou, and is positioned as a hub economic demonstration project of "channel + hub + industry".
According to the person in charge of Guangzhou Communications Investment Group, the planned project covers an area of 958 hectares, with a total investment of more than 100 billion yuan.
The project is constructed in two phases. The first phase of the project mainly builds a collection and distribution system, a modern circulation system platform, and an advanced production and manufacturing supply chain system service platform; the second phase of the project focuses on building a platform for the integrated development of the logistics industry, introducing technological innovation and advanced manufacturing The industry supply chain will strengthen the agglomeration and scale effect of the manufacturing industry in the Greater Bay Area.
According to Guangzhou Communications Investment Group, after the project is completed, it will become the largest and highest-standard production and service-oriented national logistics hub in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, helping Guangzhou to accelerate the construction of an international logistics hub with the highest efficiency, lowest cost and most competitiveness in the world. A modern logistics center and an international consumption center city, to build a domestic big cycle center node city and a domestic and international double cycle strategic link city.
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