At 2:56 a.m. on March 4, a train of 50 cars, full of electronic components, clothing, shoes and hats, daily necessities and epidemic prevention materials produced by enterprises in Wuhan, the Pearl River Delta and the Yangtze River Delta region, drove safely from Wujiashan Station of the Hanxi Depot of China Railway Wuhan Bureau Group Co., Ltd., ran through the Handan Line and Jiaoliu Line, exited from Alashankou and headed for Duisburg, Germany. This is the 27th China-Europe express train that the station has opened this year.
In the first two months of this year, Wuhan operated a total of 26 China-Europe express trains, an increase of 18% year-on-year. A total of 2022.94 tons of epidemic prevention materials such as masks, protective clothing, and surgical gowns were transported to Germany, Poland, Italy and other European countries, an increase of 20.6% year-on-year.
Su Qingfeng, secretary of the party branch of Wujiashan Station, said that since the resumption of normal operation of China-Europe express trains at the end of March 2020, the number of monthly trains has gradually increased, from 4 to 6 trains per month in the early stage of recovery to the current maximum of 12 to 14 trains per month, with a strong growth momentum. Recently, in order to ensure that the work of the international train transport organization is not affected, the station quickly adopted centralized management of key posts in accordance with the four-party responsibility of "territory, department, unit and individual", all management personnel canceled rest, and more than 40 employees of key positions such as driving and shunting did not leave the station.
The relevant person in charge of Wuhan Hanou International Logistics Company said that in order to ensure the smooth delivery of the train, the company further improved the packing efficiency by optimizing the various processes such as cargo entry data, pre-allocation list, packing and stowage, and deploying trailers, from the warehousing of goods to the completion of packing, and then to the return of the customs supervision area only 2 days.
In cooperation with Wuhan Hanou International Logistics Company, Wuhan Branch of China Railway Multimodal Transport, Wuhan Central Station of China Railway Lianji, Wuhan Customs and other units and departments inside and outside the road, at present, the China-Europe express train operated by China Railway Wuhan Bureau Group Co., Ltd. has built three outbound channels in the west, china and east, and the layout of the four port lines through Manzhouli, Erenhot, Alashankou and Khorgos has been constructed. At the same time, the arrival station will also be extended to Helsinki, Finland, with a maximum line distance of 13,000 kilometers, which further enhances the radiation capacity of Hubei's export trade to the Baltic coastal countries (northwest Europe), and gradually builds an international logistics network system of "parallel passage and multi-point direct access".
On the basis of meeting the demand for outbound trips, the China-Europe Express (Wuhan) has also continuously expanded the quality of return goods, and on January 12 and January 30, Sweden's Volvo brand cars and Dutch dairy import trains have arrived in China, which has further enriched the choice of the domestic market. As of the end of February this year, a total of 34 return China-Europe trains arrived at Wujiashan Station, an increase of 36% year-on-year, which has continuously injected impetus into the economic development of Wuhan's "city circle" and the Yangtze River Delta and pearl river delta.
Editor-in-charge: Kou Lingyu
Rong Media Reporter: Liu Qun
Correspondents: Zhang Ke, Xiao Yiming, Xing Chen, Duan Jiangcheng
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