BEIJING -- A cargo train loading with 13 Hyundai buses pulled out from the third freight yard of Tianjin Port Logistics Development Co., Ltd. on May 25, leaving for Mongolia through Erenhot.
This is the first batch of buses leaving from Tianjin Port to Mongolia through the cross-border railway, and 300 more buses are waiting to be transported.
Tianjin Port is a start point of the 21st Maritime Silk Road and the only port that connects with three cross-border land passageways respectively through Manzhouli, Erenhot and Alataw Pass.
After more than twenty years of development since the 1990s when the port started to transport goods to Mongolia, it has become the port boasting the largest cross-border train transportation capacity on the China-Mongolia-Russia Economic Corridor.
Statistics show that in the first four months of 2016, 118 cargo trains have left Tianjin Port with over 11,000 standard containers.
Liu Jun, manager of the third freight yard of the logistics company, said the company has been actively participating in the Belt and Road initiative and expanding the scale of sea-and-rail transportation. In March, it brought in double-decker carriages for transporting automobiles. It has transported 130 cars out of China so far.
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