China-Europe Railway Express trips top 130,000
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
The China-Europe Railway Express has made 130,000 trips by Saturday, marked by the departure of a freight train from Zhengzhou, capital of central China’s Henan Province, bound for Hamburg, Germany, at 10 a.m. local time.
Total cargo value has exceeded 520 billion U.S. dollars, according to the China State Railway Group Co., Ltd.
The company said it has continuously optimized the operating routes of the China-Europe Railway Express over the years, designating 93 scheduled lines with a designed speed of 120 km per hour.
Currently, 129 Chinese cities operate China-Europe Railway Express services, connecting 235 cities in 26 European countries and more than 100 cities in 11 Asian nations, covering most of Eurasia.
Freight rates have fallen by over 40 percent since the launch of the service. The trains now transport more than 50,000 types of goods across 53 categories. Major export items include high-value products such as automobiles and auto parts, machinery, electronics, and electrical equipment, while imports to China via the service include European timber, pulp, specialty agricultural products and daily consumer goods.
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Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
