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Direct shipping route opens to link eastern Chinese city and Germany

By Prof. Engr. Zamir Ahmed Awan 2 min read

Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.

Direct shipping route opens to link eastern Chinese city and Germany
(241230) -- NINGBO, Dec. 30, 2024 (Xinhua) -- This aerial drone photo shows Kawa Ningbo, the first cargo ship that will sail on the Ningbo-Wilhelmshaven direct route, docking at Ningbo Zhoushan Port in Ningbo, east China's Zhejiang Province, Dec. 30, 2024. This ship loaded with over 1,700 TEU containers of lithium batteries and e-commerce goods set sail on Monday from east China's Ningbo port for Wilhelmshaven in Germany, marking the opening of a "China-Europe express" shipping route. The Ningbo-Wilhelmshaven direct route will reduce transport time to 26 days, saving 12 days compared to the same route with multiple stops, according to Sun Xuejun, chairman of Zhejiang Seaport Logistics Group Co., Ltd. (Xinhua/Jiang Han)
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A cargo ship loaded with over 1,700 TEU containers of lithium batteries and e-commerce goods set sail on Monday from east China’s Ningbo port for Wilhelmshaven in Germany, marking the opening of a “China-Europe express” shipping route.

The Ningbo-Wilhelmshaven direct route will reduce transport time to 26 days, saving 12 days compared to the same route with multiple stops, according to Sun Xuejun, chairman of Zhejiang Seaport Logistics Group Co., Ltd.

This photo shows Kawa Ningbo, the first cargo ship that will sail on the Ningbo-Wilhelmshaven direct route, docking at Ningbo Zhoushan Port in Ningbo, east China’s Zhejiang Province, Dec. 30, 2024. (Xinhua/Jiang Han)
This aerial drone photo shows Kawa Ningbo, the first cargo ship that will sail on the Ningbo-Wilhelmshaven direct route, docking at Ningbo Zhoushan Port in Ningbo, east China’s Zhejiang Province, Dec. 30, 2024. (Xinhua/Jiang Han)
Containers are loaded onto Kawa Ningbo, the first cargo ship that will sail on the Ningbo-Wilhelmshaven direct route, at Ningbo Zhoushan Port in Ningbo, east China’s Zhejiang Province, Dec. 30, 2024. (Xinhua/Jiang Han)
Immigration administration police officers conduct security check aboard Kawa Ningbo, the first cargo ship that will sail on the Ningbo-Wilhelmshaven direct route, at Ningbo Zhoushan Port in Ningbo, east China’s Zhejiang Province, Dec. 30, 2024. (Xinhua/Jiang Han)
Kawa Ningbo, the first cargo ship sailing on the Ningbo-Wilhelmshaven direct route, departs from Ningbo Zhoushan Port in Ningbo, east China’s Zhejiang Province, Dec. 30, 2024.

Reference Link:- https://english.news.cn/20241230/f4cc34fa480547028e2fac3a59da16ba/c.html

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Prof. Engr. Zamir Ahmed Awan
Prof. Engr. Zamir Ahmed Awan Founder & Chair, Global Silk Route Research Alliance

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.…

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