This aerial photo taken on July 29, 2022 shows a China-Europe freight train bound for Budapest, Hungary leaving a logistics base in Hefei, east China's Anhui Province. (Photo by Song Yanjun/Xinhua)
BEIJING, Jan. 2 (Xinhua) -- Hefei, capital city of east China's Anhui Province, has handled 868 China-Europe freight trains in 2023, up 13.02 percent year on year.
By the end of 2023, the freight trains had carried 35,578 forty-foot equivalent unit containers of goods, up 13.02 percent year on year.
The latest China-Europe freight train departed from Hefei on January 1, 2024, carrying a total of 110 twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) containers of cargo. It will leave from the Alashankou Port in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and finally arrive in Tihonovo, Russia.
The main export goods transported were high value-added products such as household appliances and electronic components made in Anhui Province, according to local authorities.
Hefei launched its first China-Europe freight train in June 2014. Currently, the train service connects Hefei with over 125 overseas cities and stations, marking itself as an important logistics channel for Hefei to connect Eurasia.
(Edited by Tian Shenyoujia with Xinhua Silk Road, tianshenyoga0524@163.com)
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