A train bound for Hamburg, Germany waits for departure in Xuzhou, east China's Jiangsu Province, Nov. 28, 2020. (Photo by Liu Zhong/Xinhua)
BEIJING, June 7 (Xinhua) – The Yangtze River Delta region, China's foreign trade hub, saw a surge in China-Europe freight train trips in the first five months of this year,Chinanews.com reported on Monday.
China-Europe freight trains departing from the Yangtze River Delta region witnessed a total of 1,135 trips in the first five months of this year, up 8.8 percent year on year.
Nearly 110,600 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) of goods were transported by the China-Europe freight trains from the Yangtz River Delta during the period, up 12.9 percent year on year.
In May alone, the number of China-Europe freight train trips from the Yangtze River Delta hit 235, surging 14.1 percent year on year.
The freight trains carried a total of 23,000 TEU of goods, up 12.9 percent from a year ago.
Industry insiders noted that the freight train service from the Yangtze River Delta to Europe has become an important way of international logistics transportation.(Edited by Yang Yifan with Xinhua Silk Road, yangyifan@xinhua.org)
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