Inaugural Departure of International Trains of China-Laos Railway (Chengdu/Chongqing-Vientiane)
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CHENGDU, China, Dec. 6, 2021 /Xinhua=KYODO JBN/--
On December 4th, 2021, international trains of the China-Laos Railway
(Chengdu/Chongqing-Vientiane) laden with light commercial trucks, nuts,
motorcycle parts, chemical products and other goods respectively departed from
the Chengdu International Railway Port and the Chongqing International
Logistics Hub Park, and will pass by Yunnan Province, then arrive at the
Laotian capital Vientiane in no more than three days.
The train departing from Chengdu carries light commercial trucks manufactured
by Sinotruk Chengdu Commercial Vehicle, an enterprise based in Qingbaijiang. In
the past, the company had to arrange for drivers to directly drive products
from Chengdu to export and deliver to Vientiane over a route of around 2,000 km
spanning roughly ten days on the road. This transportation time has been
substantially reduced to merely three days thanks to the opening of the
China-Laos Railway.
"Compared with the traditional highway transportation, railway transportation
not only considerably reduces labor costs and saves time, but the new option is
also safer and more reliable, in addition to other benefits such as freight
protection that can better preserve product integrity," explained Wu Kunsheng,
the responsible person of Sinotruk Chengdu Commercial Vehicle.
The China-Laos Railway starts at Yunnan Province in the north, and passes
through the Mohan Port at the Chinese-Laotian border before arriving at the
Laotian capital Vientiane. It is one of the many large-scale projects
undertaken between China and ASEAN coutries. The opening of the China-Laos
Railway will promote mutually beneficial cooperation between China and Laos,
and the interconnectivity between involved regions.
"Focusing on the normalized operation of the China-Laos Railway, Chengdu will
partner with Laos to jointly build multimodal transport and transshipment
center, storage and logistics industrial park, agriculture demonstration park,
etc. based on actual logistics demands, so as to promote the integrated
development of transportation and trade," remarked Chen Zejun, General Manager
of Chengdu International Railway Service Co., Ltd.
The Chengdu International Railway Port is an important gateway hub for China's
opening-up efforts toward the west and the south. At present, an international
train network and global land-sea freight delivery system that revolves around
Chengdu, extends westward into Europe, reaches northward in Mongolia and
Russia, links eastward with Japan and the Republic of Korea, and expands
southward into the ASEAN bloc have been established. At present, this network
is connected with 67 cities outside of China and 20 cities within. According to
railway-maritime intermodal train departure data on the Chengdu-Qinzhou-ASEAN
route, nearly 10,000 containers of train cargoes worth more than USD 100
million were exported southward in 2020. The commencement of the China-Laos
Railway will further bolster the Chengdu International Railway Port's effort in
expanding its southward international railway conduits.
Next, the Chengdu International Railway Port will make the most out of the
opportunities inherent in the construction of the China-Laos Railway, so as to
position Chengdu as an international logistics and transshipment hub that
connects inland Europe with East Asia, South Asia and Southeast Asia, as well
as a gateway hub linking the pan-Europe and pan-Asia regions with the central
and western parts of China. At the same time, efforts will be spared to expand
intermediary trade with ASEAN and Europe, and active steps will be taken to
create a cross-border international production capacity cooperation
demonstration zone.
Source: Chengdu International Railway Port
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