Since the beginning of this year, the number of China-Europe trains has reached 10,000, and a total of 972,000 TEUs of goods have been sent, a year-on-year increase of 5%.

The person in charge of the freight department of China National Railway Group Co., Ltd. introduced that the high-quality development of China-Europe freight trains will build an all-weather, large-capacity, green and low-carbon, smooth and safe international logistics channel, in order to maintain a stable and smooth international industrial chain supply chain, high-quality common The construction of the “Belt and Road” provides strong support.

This year, the railway department has opened new railway-sea combined transport routes from Xi’an, Chongqing and other cities to Constanta, Romania via the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. Efficient, multi-directional extension, sea and land interconnection” overseas channel network pattern.

At the same time, the railway department has intensified the organization of return trains and promoted the balanced transportation of two-way cargo sources. This year, the ratio of return trains to outbound trains has reached 88%; the implementation of Alashankou, Horgos, Manzhouli and Erlian has been steadily promoted. Meanwhile, we actively coordinated with overseas railways to simultaneously improve infrastructure capabilities, and achieved steady improvement in domestic and overseas channel capabilities. Since the beginning of this year, the average daily traffic volume of the 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.