Logistics on land-sea trade corridor gain momentum in 2021

The scale of sea-rail intermodal freight logistics along the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor has seen robust growth since the start of this year, according to statistics released by Guangxi Yanhai Railway Company Limited on Feb 23.

A total of 456 sea-rail intermodal freight trains travelled along the corridor in January, a year-on-year increase of 128 percent, while 3,992 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) were handled during the weeklong Spring Festival holiday from Feb 11 to 17, an increase of 33.3 percent year-on-year.

The corridor was jointly launched by provincial regions of western China and Singapore in 2017, as a major international transport passage featuring multiple transportation means such as railway, sea and highway.

Cargo from the West China area can now be transported to the rest of the world with the help of the corridor via the Beibu Gulf in Guangxi. 

The frequency of the trains conducted along the corridor has now been increased from once a week in 2017 to over 10 times a day on average, and the variety of cargo categories being transported has been increased to more than 300. 

Qinzhou Port, one of the major ports in the Beibu Gulf, has started the operation of new sea-rail intermodal freight trains to destinations including Guilin, Liuzhou, Sichuan's Panzhihua, Chongqing's Fuling and Changshou in 2020. In addition, two new railway lines, starting from Sichuan's Suining and Hunan's Huaihua and bound for Qinzhou port, were put into operation in the early February, further expanding the logistical scale of the corridor. 

Construction work on China's first 100,000 million ton level automatic container wharf at Qinzhou Port has been in full swing over the Spring Festival.