BEIJING: China-Europe freight train service has witnessed solid growth in the first four months of this year, given a continuous rise of transport capacity and efficiency,
data from China State Railway Group showed.
A total of 5,611 China-Europe freight trains ran from January to April, a year-on-year increase of 17 percent,
and about 609,000 standard containers of goods were transported, up 32 percent from a year earlier,
the company said.
In April alone, the number of China-Europe freight train trips increased by 25 percent year-on-year to
1,459, and the trains carried about 160,000 standard containers, up 45 percent year-on-year.
Ma Siwei, General Manager of Heze-based Shandong China Post International Logistics Co, told the Global Times recently that the company has witnessed a jump of freight trains to five Central Asian countries in recent months.
“Almost 60 percent of my goods have been transported to Central Asian countries, which is a huge increase,”
he said.
Freight transport is now in an upward trend,
Ma said, explaining that the profit for one container has jumped to 2,000-3,000 yuan ($285-428) in the past one or two months, while that was only a few hundred yuan during the Spring Festival holidays.
