Shizuishan-Mundra freight train opens in Ningxia

On April 29, an international multimodal freight train that will run from Shizuishan, Ningxia Hui autonomous region to Mundra, India was launched on the Ningxia Fuhai logistics railway.

The freight train departs from Shizuishan, arrives at Tianjin Port, and is then shipped to Mundra.

There are 160 containers in the train, and the goods on its initial transit are all polyvinyl chloride (PVC) with a value of 85 million yuan ($12.87 million) and a cargo weight of 4,400 tons.

It is expected to reach the destination in 26 days through one-stop transportation services.

Each standard container can save about 1,000 yuan of freight for the company.

More than 90 percent of the foreign trade enterprises in Shizuishan are production-oriented and require a large amount of cargo transportation that generates high logistics costs.

As the local government responds to the Belt and Road Initiative, it further expanded and deepened the ASEAN trade market by opening up a new land-sea transit route from Ningxia to the west of ASEAN countries.

The freight train's one-stop transportation services have reduced time and costs to strengthen the ability of Shizuishan to connect to the rest of the world.

Since the end of 2021, 11 PVC freight trains have been shipped from Shizuishan to Vietnam, with cargos valued at over 500 million yuan. The first freight train from Shizuishan to India was successfully tested on April 20.

Photos by Zhou Xu and Ma Xiaojun.