URUMQI - A total of 13 China-Europe international cargo train competent organizations and companies from 11 provinces, regions and cities in the country, including Xinjiang, Chongqing, Hubei, Shaanxi and Fujian, established a national Sino-Europe freight train platform alliance in late April in Urumqi, capital city of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
The alliance aims to establish a coordination mechanism among all Sino-Europe international freight train operators, optimize the transportation organization and spatial arrangement of China-Europe freight trains, and realize win-win cooperation in the member provinces, regions and cities.
Recently, China-Europe freight trains have witnessed rapid development under the "Belt and Road" initiative and strong market demand. China now has three rail channels to Europe -- a western route through the Alataw Pass in Xinjiang to Kazakhstan, a middle path via Erenhot to Mongolia, and through Manzhouli in the northeast to Russia. Statistics showed altogether 39 China-Europe and China-Asia freight train lines covering 26 cities in China have been opened.
The establishment of the alliance aims to share resources, information, and achievements when setting up public information platform, joint conference mechanism, and coordination mechanism among all governing bodies of Sino-Europe international freight trains, Liu Shiqing, general manager with Xinjiang China-Euro Combine Logistics Co., Ltd said.
Meanwhile, the alliance plans to make Urumqi as the collection center of Sino-Europe Cargo train to west direction. According to the statistics, as of the end of March, Xinjiang launched totaling 150 Sino-Euro and Sino-Asia cargo trains to west direction, and plans to launch at least 200 trains in by the end 2016.
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