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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
BEIJING, November 20 (Xinhua) — A China-Europe freight train loaded with household goods departed from the international land port of Ganzhou in east China's Jiangxi Province on Wednesday. This marks the first time the inland province has handled a total of 2,185 China-Europe trains in the 10 years since such freight services began in 2015.
These China-Europe trains, which departed from or arrived in Jiangxi, carried a total of 242,000 standard container units (TEUs) carrying goods weighing over 5.7 million tons, worth a total of $9 billion, according to the Zhongguo Xinwenshe news agency.
The Nankang District of Ganzhou City uses approximately 10 million cubic meters of wood annually for furniture production, 80 percent of which is imported. According to Ye Zhangnan, director of the Nanchang Railway Logistics Center at the aforementioned port, thanks to China-Europe rail services, the transit time for transporting wood to the port has been reduced to 12 days, 25 days less than traditional sea transport, and overall logistics costs have been reduced by 18 percent.
"Thanks to the stable and efficient operation of China-Europe trains, our number of European clients is gradually growing. Between January and October of this year, we already exported 68 containers of goods," said Wen Shitong, a representative of a local furniture company, adding that the company intends to further expand its presence in the European and Central Asian markets.
According to statistics, Jiangxi Province has already launched a total of 12 international transport routes, creating a major logistics artery spanning 224 cities in 25 countries across Europe and Asia, including Russia, Kazakhstan, the Netherlands, and elsewhere. This has enabled Jiangxi Province, which is landlocked and borders no other countries, to significantly reduce the distance to global markets. -0-
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