WUHAN, March 31 (Xinhua) -- Loaded with auto parts, daily necessities, electrical appliances, furniture and other products，No. 75060 train departed from Wuhan Wujiashan Station Wednesday, which marks the 3rd China-Europe freight train launched that day and the 40th China-Europe freight train this year from Wujiashan Station, reported Changjiang Daily.
Aerial photo taken on March 28, 2020 shows a China-Europe freight train bound for Duisburg of Germany pulling out of the Wuhan terminal of China Railway Intermodal in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province. (Xinhua/Xiao Yijiu)
The products transported this time mainly came from enterprises in Xianning and other regions of Hubei. Through Manzhouli land port, the train will head to Russia.
Wujiashan Station, also known as Wuhan Railway container center, was officially put into operation on September 5, 2010. This station is one of China's 18 railway container centers and also the only departure and terminal station of the China-Europe freight train in Hubei Province.
In recent years, due to the increasing demands for international trade in Yichang, Xiangyang, Shiyan, Xianning, exporting goods from these four cities are usually tailored to Wujiashan Station, in which the centralized customs declaration will be made before the designated China-Europe freight train departs there and bounds for Europe fully loaded.
A source with Wujiashan Station said that current freight train model will help Wuhan build a train assembly center in central China, and further establish Wuhan's status as a logistics hub in central region, Wuhan China-Europe freight trains are playing an important role in stimulating the economic development of Hubei and its surrounding areas.
(Edited by Bao Nuomin with Xinhua Silk Road, baonuomin@xinhua.org)
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