BEIJING, Oct. 22 (Xinhua) -- Lianyungang, a coastal city in east China's Jiangsu Province, has actively participated in construction of the Belt and Road since the Initiative was proposed five years ago.
Lianyungang has made full use of its port resources to facilitate trade exchanges with more than 150 countries and regions.
It is reported that Port of Lianyungang has built 70 berths each with over 10,000 metric tons (tonnes), and opened 52 container routes, 13 grocery liner ship routes and two passenger and cargo liner routes between China and the Republic of Korea (ROK).
At the end of 2017, the Port of Lianyungang saw its total throughput reach 230 million tonnes, with the containers at 4.72 million TEUs.
Meanwhile, Lianyungang has joined the network of China-Europe freight train lines to promote logistics.
On December 13, 2015, a China-Europe freight train started its trip from Lianyungang, which took12 days to arrive in Duisburg, Germany.
In February 2017, the first batch of wheat produced in Kazakhstan had a stopover in Lianyungang and were sent to Southeast Asia, marking the official implementation of Lianyungang as the only departure port for Kazakhstan's grain transit in China.
In the past, the freight trains from Horgos to Almaty required the transfer from the waterways to highways, and took about 12 days for a one-way trip, said Kong Xiangwei, director of the Production Business Department of China-Kazakhstan Logistics International Co., Ltd., adding that after the sea-railway combined transportation, the cargo transportation time was shortened by half, with the cost cut by 20 percent. (Edited by Hu Pingchao, hupingchao@xinhua.org)
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