- New international multimodal transport route on railways and highways will carry goods from China’s Hebei province to Central Asian countries
- A train carrying 1,000 tons of goods left Langfang in Hebei on July 4 for Kashgar in northwest China’s Xinjiang, where the goods will trucked to Kyrgyzstan, then back on rail to Taskhent
- Meanwhile, China’s largest land port in Manzhouli, Inner Mongolia, reported a record 46.1% surge in first-half cargo throughput this year
North China’s Hebei Province has launched a new multimodal route to Central Asia that relies on railways and highways to transport goods to Central Asian countries, Xinhua news agency reported from Shijiazhuang.
Up north in China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, the country’s largest land port has reported a 46.1% jump in first-half 2023 import and export cargo throughput, Xinhua also reported.
A train carrying more than 1,000 tons of goods departed Langfang City in Hebei on July 4 headed for Kashgar City in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, where the goods will be transported overland on cross-border highways.
The goods will be carried by train again after reaching Kyrgyzstan and transported to the final destination of Tashkent, capital of Uzbekistan, Xinhua said.
The China-Uzbekistan is about 6,000 km long, and China Railway Beijing Group Co. Ltd., operator of the service, estimates it will take about 12 days to complete the journey, the report said.
Xinhua said the new multimodal route to Central Asia is expected to further promote the development of economic and trade relations between China and Uzbekistan, helping ensure high efficiency in transport while reducing costs.
Last year, China issued a five-year work plan to promote the development of multimodal transport amid efforts to optimize and adjust its transport structure. According to the work plan, by 2025, development of multimodal transport in the country will have improved significantly, Xinhua said.
In early March this year, the government opened a new cargo consolidation hub for the fast-growing China-Europe rail cargo link in Shenyang, the capital of northeast China’s Liaoning Province
Meanwhile, the country’s largest land port, Manzhouli, handled more than 10 million tons of imports and exports in the first half of this year, up 46.1% year on year, marking a record high for the period, Xinhua reported on July 4 quoting a China Railway Harbin Bureau Group Co. officer.
The port has seen robust growth in its traffic volume since the beginning of this year. So far, it has handled a maximum of 28 trains on a single day, eight of which were outbound trains, said Liu Huichao, deputy head of the Manzhouli railway station.
China Railway Harbin Bureau Group said that it has taken multiple measures over the years to improve the operation and transport efficiency of the ports that it administers, which has helped the ports’ freight and traffic volumes increase progressively year by year, Xinhua reported.
Source: portcalls
