A freight train loaded with chemical products departed Friday from southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality for a port in southern China, where the goods will be further shipped across the sea to foreign countries.
The new route starting from the logistics hub of Fuling in Chongqing is an expansion of the China-Singapore rail-sea transit route, which was launched in 2017 and has connected 220 ports in 92 countries and regions.
Thanks to the route, the cargo train carrying 50 standard containers of goods will arrive in Italy, Turkey and the Netherlands about 14 days faster than the traditional water route.
Since the novel coronavirus outbreak, Chongqing has introduced a spate of measures to reduce logistics costs for trade enterprises and ensure the normal operation of the rail-sea transit route.
By the end of February, about 1,674 freight trains have shipped on the route over 300 kinds of commodities worth 910 million U.S. dollars.
