Guizhou province launches 11 China-Europe freight trains

Containers, full of goods destined for overseas consumers, are in a wagon coupled to one of the China-Europe trains, at Guiyang Dulaying International Land-Sea Logistics Port. [Photo/Guiyang news network]

Southwest China's Guizhou province has launched nearly a dozen China-Europe freight trains since it opened the service in November 2021. 

The 11 China-Europe freight trains, which departed from Guiyang Dulaying International Land-Sea Logistics Port – located in Guiyang, capital city of Guizhou province – have so far transported 550 containers of goods. The products are diverse – ranging from guitars, tea and trolleys, to lawn mowers, shoes, bags and daily necessities.

Guiyang Dulaying International Land-Sea Logistics Port, which is based in the Guiyang Free Trade Zone, is a large national freight station serving logistics parks and is regarded as being a key logistics hub in the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor.

The port is being constructed in two phases, with the first having started operation in April 2021. It mainly includes facilities and areas for railway operation, storage, distribution and processing, and it also has an office, a grain and oil trading market and a steel trading market. To date, it has handled 237,000 metric tons of goods including grain, beverages, processing materials such as soybean meal, cement clinkers and bauxite.

The second phase of the port is currently on the drawing board. When complete, it will engage in high-speed rail express transportation and expand into various modern logistics modes. Phase II will undertake the transportation of such things as luggage, express mail, agricultural products, cold chain materials, and imported and exported cargo.