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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
URUMQI, July 22 (Xinhua) — Horgos Port in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, located on the China-Europe international freight train route, has developed into an important transportation hub for promoting international trade with astonishing speed. In the first half of this year, 471,000 TEU (twenty-foot equivalent unit) containers (TEU) were transported by China-Europe freight trains through the port, up more than 26 percent year on year, according to Horgos Customs data.
Since the first China-Europe freight train passed through Horgos in 2016, a total of 88 China-Europe freight routes have been launched at the port, covering 46 cities in 18 countries. More than 100,000 items of goods are shipped across the globe every year, providing highly efficient and stable logistics corridors for Chinese-made products to be exported to countries along the Belt and Road Initiative.
Such successes were achieved not simply through “brute force.”
In May this year, Horgos Customs was the first in the country to implement the reform of the “smart railway checkpoint, fast-track customs clearance at the destination” model, reducing the transit time of imported goods from 2-3 days to less than 16 hours, and the average transshipment time for a return freight train is 2 hours on average. More than 27 China-Europe trains pass through Horgos every day, and the customs provides 24/7 services, ensuring immediate inspection of trains upon arrival, which has greatly reduced the customs clearance time of goods.
"Our company has been working as a checkpoint agent for over 10 years. China-Europe freight train services are fast and stable. In the first half of this year, we have already serviced over 1,300 such trains, which is 10 percent more than last year," said Han Xing, COO of the Khorgos branch of Hong'an International Freight Forwarding Company.
In order to ensure the sustainable growth of the types and volumes of goods transported by trains on China-Europe routes, Khorgos Customs has been continuously deepening the reform of its operational activities, taking measures such as integrating customs control into the railway operation process, establishing a special service window for China-Europe trains, developing customized service solutions in accordance with the needs of shippers, etc. -0-
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