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The Horgos Port has more than 6,600 China-Europe (Central Asia) trains this year

Since the proposal to jointly build the "Belt and Road" initiative, the number of China-Europe (Central Asia) freight trains sent to SCO countries has continued to grow. The latest data shows that this year, the number of China-Europe (Central Asia) trains passing through the Horgos Railway Port has exceeded 6,600, an increase of 21.8% year-on-year, providing indispensable support for the safety and smooth regional industrial chain and supply chain of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization member countries.

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Wukulai Kadeli, business director of a freight forwarding company in Horgos: The Central Europe (Central Asia) trains sent to the SCO countries carry a wide range of goods, ranging from building materials, agricultural machinery and equipment, commodity vehicles, to clothing, shoes and hats, cosmetics, and electronic parts. Our company has more than 2,000 China-Europe (Central Asia) trains this year, an increase of 20% compared with the same period last year.

Since the Horgos Port launched the "Smart Railway Port Rapid Customs Clearance" reform this year, the pass time at imported goods ports has been reduced from 2 to 3 days to within 16 hours, a decrease of 70%, and the operating time of local export goods has been reduced from 6 hours to 1 hour, a decrease of 80%.

Zhang Dongchang, dispatcher of the Production Safety Command Center of Horgos Station: "Prioritative replacement, priority assembly, and priority delivery" is implemented for the inbound and outbound China-Europe (Central Asia) trains. At the same time, actively coordinated Kazakhstan to increase the handover of complete vehicles, which has promoted the steady growth of the number of handover vehicles at the port, with an average of 28 trains per day, reaching a maximum of 36 trains.

In order to ensure the convenient and efficient operation of China-Europe (Central Asia) freight trains, Horgos Customs provides 7*24-hour customs clearance services to ensure the efficient operation of China-Europe (Central Asia) freight trains. Since 2016, the total number of China-Europe (Central Asia) trains passing through the Horgos Railway Port has exceeded 48,000, and the total number of train routes has reached 90, which can radiate to 18 countries, 46 cities and regions abroad, becoming a "golden channel" for international logistics and land transportation.

Source: CCTV News Client

Xinjiang Railway implements the "rail, road and railway" intermodal transport mode for the first time to transport electricity and coal

At 17:00 on August 28, a train loaded with 3,500 tons of coal drove out of Sangezhuang Station of Lanxin Railway to Kashgar Station, delivering electricity and coal to local enterprises, marking the first time that Xinjiang Railway implemented the "rail, road and railway" intermodal transport mode to transport electricity and coal.

The coal supply in the two main coal-producing areas of Zhundong and Jiangjunmiao in Xinjiang is relatively large. At the Zhundong and Jiangjunmiao stations, freight trains loaded with coal are transported to power plants in Aksu, Kashgar, Korla and other places every day through the Urumqi Railway, Lanxin Railway, and Southern Xinjiang Railway. Urumqi West Station has become a hub site for coal trains to pass through.

On August 18, the Xinjiang Railway "railway-rail" intermodal train was launched. Photo by Shen Xuewu

Recently, in view of the busy transportation situation of Urumqi West Station, the Xinjiang Railway Department has implemented in-depth implementation of potential tapping and improving efficiency, innovating transportation organization models, vigorously developing multimodal transport, launched the "rail, road and railway" intermodal transport project, and formulated the "rail, road and railway" coal transportation organization plan for the Urumqi Railway to Kashgar region. The project adopts the multimodal transport method of "rail highway railway". After transporting coal from the Zhundong and Jiangjunmiao areas to Ganquanbao, Weijiaquan or Miquan stations by railway, the containers shipped from coal will be transported to Sangezhuang Station by car, and then loaded at the station to the Nanjiang Power Plant. The transportation method is flexible.

Chen Kaiqiang, senior marketing manager of the marketing room of the 95306 Freight Logistics Service Center of China Railway Urumqi Bureau Group Co., Ltd., said that this is the first time that Xinjiang Railway has launched a "rail, road and railway" intermodal transport project, bypassing the busy transportation section of the Lanxin Railway Urumqi West Station to Jiji Tank Station, effectively alleviating the transportation pressure of the Urumqi Hub, further releasing the capacity of the Urumqi railway channel, and effectively ensuring the supply of electricity and coal.

In order to ensure the transportation of key materials, the Xinjiang Railway Department actively organizes a series of products such as direct bulk trains and coal bus recirculating trains to consolidate the scale of transportation of bulk goods such as coal, steel, and ore. Strengthen communication and docking with power companies, accurately grasp the inventory, daily consumption, and unloading of power coal, formulate transportation plans in accordance with the "one enterprise, one policy", dynamically revise the transportation plan for coal circulation trains in the management, and strengthen overall coordination of transportation capacity in the links of requesting vehicles, distributing vehicles, loading, etc., so as to achieve fast loading and express transportation.

Since the beginning of this year, the volume of railway freight transport in Xinjiang has exceeded 160 million tons, an increase of 5.4% year-on-year.