1st China-Europe freight train with auto parts departs from Jilin province

Updated : 2022-08-10Source : Jilin Daily
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At 11 am on August 1, a China-Europe freight train filled with auto parts slowly pulled out of Changchun Xinglong Railway Port on the north side of the Changchun Xinglong Comprehensive Bonded Zone.
The train is the first special China-Europe freight train tailored by China Railway Shenyang Group for export enterprises in Jilin province to transport auto parts. Carrying about 15.43 million yuan worth of windshields, tires and other goods, it will arrive in Nuremberg, Germany, after 26 days.
As a traditional industrial base, Jilin has world-class production bases for vehicles and railway vehicles. Nearly 50 percent of the goods transported this time came from the province. Automobiles and auto parts accounted for the largest proportion of the total freight volume, about a quarter. Changchun-made and Jilin-made windshields, brake pads and bearings have become the "basic models" carried by the China-Europe freight train in the province.
In recent years, China Railway Shenyang Group has made great efforts to improve the quantity and quality of China-Europe freight trains and to help Jilin province's economic development with the goal of high-standard, sustainable and people-centered progress. The China-Europe (Changchun-Manzhouli-Europe) freight train, as the first train in the province to Europe, has provided more business opportunities for the province and injected new impetus into the province's integration into dual circulation and international industrial capacity cooperation. Since its operation, the freight train has made over 900 trips and handled more than 73,000 twenty-foot equivalent unit containers of import and export goods worth nearly 26 billion yuan. With Changchun as the starting point, the freight train has formed a trunk logistics network connecting almost 100 stations in Russia and 30 stations in 10 other European countries, becoming an important window for the province to open up to the outside world
Changchun Xinglongshan Railway Port undertakes the transport task of the China-Europe (Changchun-Manzhouli-Europe) freight train with 4 enterprise special lines, according to Du Yongping, deputy general manager of Changchun Freight Center of China Railway Shenyang Group. The railway sector has given priority to the allocation of train resources, optimized the transport process of China-Europe freight trains and improved the efficiency of service, Du said, adding that during the epidemic, the sector actively adopted the closed-loop management model to ensure the normal operation of trains.
After the operation of the China-Europe (Changchun-Hunchun-Europe) freight train in April 2021, Jilin province now has 2 China-Europe freight train routes. From January to July this year, the China-Europe freight trains in the province made 49 trips and carried 4,900 twenty-foot equivalent unit containers of goods, up 16.6 percent year on year.