Freight train trips from Chongqing via New Int’l Land-Sea Trade Corridor see surge in H1
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
An aerial drone photo taken on July 30, 2026 shows a freight train of the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor waiting for departure at Yuzui Station in Chongqing, southwest China. A total of 961 rail freight train trips were operated from Chongqing via the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor in the first half of the year, up 25.6 percent year on year, according to the logistics division of China Railway Chengdu Group Co., Ltd.
Chongqing’s imports and exports via the corridor totaled 28.71 billion yuan (approximately 4.25 billion U.S. dollars) during the same period, representing a 13.7 percent year-over-year increase, according to data from Chongqing Customs. (Xinhua/Tang Yi)
An aerial drone photo taken on July 30, 2026 shows a freight train of the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor departing from Yuzui Station in Chongqing, southwest China. A total of 961 rail freight train trips were operated from Chongqing via the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor in the first half of the year, up 25.6 percent year on year, according to the logistics division of China Railway Chengdu Group Co., Ltd.
Chongqing’s imports and exports via the corridor totaled 28.71 billion yuan (approximately 4.25 billion U.S. dollars) during the same period, representing a 13.7 percent year-over-year increase, according to data from Chongqing Customs. (Xinhua/Tang Yi)
An aerial drone photo taken on July 30, 2026 shows a freight train of the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor waiting for departure at Yuzui Station in Chongqing, southwest China. A total of 961 rail freight train trips were operated from Chongqing via the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor in the first half of the year, up 25.6 percent year on year, according to the logistics division of China Railway Chengdu Group Co., Ltd.
Chongqing’s imports and exports via the corridor totaled 28.71 billion yuan (approximately 4.25 billion U.S. dollars) during the same period, representing a 13.7 percent year-over-year increase, according to data from Chongqing Customs. (Xinhua/Tang Yi)
An aerial drone photo taken on July 30, 2026 shows a freight train of the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor waiting for departure at Yuzui Station in Chongqing, southwest China. A total of 961 rail freight train trips were operated from Chongqing via the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor in the first half of the year, up 25.6 percent year on year, according to the logistics division of China Railway Chengdu Group Co., Ltd.
Chongqing’s imports and exports via the corridor totaled 28.71 billion yuan (approximately 4.25 billion U.S. dollars) during the same period, representing a 13.7 percent year-over-year increase, according to data from Chongqing Customs. (Xinhua/Tang Yi)
An aerial drone photo taken on July 30, 2026 shows a freight train of the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor departing from Yuzui Station in Chongqing, southwest China. A total of 961 rail freight train trips were operated from Chongqing via the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor in the first half of the year, up 25.6 percent year on year, according to the logistics division of China Railway Chengdu Group Co., Ltd.
Chongqing’s imports and exports via the corridor totaled 28.71 billion yuan (approximately 4.25 billion U.S. dollars) during the same period, representing a 13.7 percent year-over-year increase, according to data from Chongqing Customs. (Xinhua/Tang Yi)
An aerial drone photo taken on July 30, 2026 shows a freight train of the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor waiting for departure at Yuzui Station in Chongqing, southwest China. A total of 961 rail freight train trips were operated from Chongqing via the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor in the first half of the year, up 25.6 percent year on year, according to the logistics division of China Railway Chengdu Group Co., Ltd.
Chongqing’s imports and exports via the corridor totaled 28.71 billion yuan (approximately 4.25 billion U.S. dollars) during the same period, representing a 13.7 percent year-over-year increase, according to data from Chongqing Customs. (Xinhua/Tang Yi)
An aerial drone photo taken on July 30, 2026 shows a freight train of the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor waiting for departure at Yuzui Station in Chongqing, southwest China. A total of 961 rail freight train trips were operated from Chongqing via the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor in the first half of the year, up 25.6 percent year on year, according to the logistics division of China Railway Chengdu Group Co., Ltd.
Chongqing’s imports and exports via the corridor totaled 28.71 billion yuan (approximately 4.25 billion U.S. dollars) during the same period, representing a 13.7 percent year-over-year increase, according to data from Chongqing Customs. (Xinhua/Tang Yi)
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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.…
