CHINA's northeastern hinterland city Xian (pop 8.4
million) plans to start a new international container railway transport service
via Xinjiang's Alashankou border pass to Europe, a recent transport forum on
Asia-Europe logistics cooperation was told, reports Xinhua.
Xian is the start of the ancient Silk Road and the centre
of the New Eurasia Land Bridge. It has become an important pivot for the
east-west and north-south cargo flow, Xian vice mayor Han Song told delegates.
The Xian-Xinjiang-Europe Railway, called the new Silk
Road by the industry, is bound to play the role of a bridge of cooperation that
connects all countries the route passes through, he said.
For the last five years, Mr Han said Xian work has been
directed at building the largest "dry port" in China to offer
intermodal service to sea ports. The "dry port" is comprised of a
container railway container terminal, a bonded port area and a road freight
distribution facility.
Opened in July 2011, the Chongqing-Xinjiang-Europe
Railway, the first Sino-European railway crosses at Xinjiang's Alashankou
checkpoint and traverses Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, Poland on its way to
Duisburg, Germany.
A single journey lasts 16 days. Over the past two years
since its commencement of operation, the Chongqing-Xinjiang-Europe Railway
already moved thousands of made-in-Chongqing laptops and other electronic
products to the European market.
Source : HKSG.
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