A freight train loaded with 50 containers of machinery and equipment recently left southwest China’s Chongqing municipality for the capital of Ukraine, marking the launch of Chongqing’s new freight train route. The train is scheduled to pass through the border port of Erenhot in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, and will reach Kiev in mid-September.
Exports from Chongqing to Ukraine had to go through Belarus or Poland earlier rather than taking a direct route to that country. The new route is the municipality’s first direct international freight train route to Keiv. It is expected to further facilitate trade between Europe and the western regions of China, according to an official Chinese news agency.
Chongqing is a primary hub for China-Europe freight trains. The Yuxinou (Chongqing-Xinjiang-Europe) railway, which was the first China-Europe freight train route, saw 1,359 trips in the first half of 2021, up by over 50 per cent year on year, according to the port and logistics office of the municipal government.
Since the railway was put into operation in 2011, Yuxinou has launched more than 30 routes, connecting over 40 cities across 26 countries, and the routes have recorded over 8,000 freight train trips
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