BEIJING, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- A cargo train carrying automobile parts from Mannheim Harbor, Germany arrived in Chongqing on November 18.
The train traveled 11,000 kilometers before reaching Guoyuan port, Chongqing, during which it went through Poland, Belarus, Russia, and Kazakhstan crossing the border at Khorgos.
Mannheim Harbor is the second nod Chonqing-Europe cargo trains set in Europe, which will be considered as an important regular departure station in Germany.
The launch of the freight train will strengthen the economic and trade cooperation between China's upper reaches of the Yangtze River and the upper reaches of the Rhine in Europe, and boost the Liangjiang New Area in Chongqing to better serve the cooperation projects of Germany in the fields of logistics, trade, intelligence manufacturing. (Edited by Ma Xin, maxin11@xinhua.org)