Sea rail intermodal transport helps the Belt and Road development of a new channel

Mondo Finance Updated on 2024-01-19

Aerial footage of Putian East Station of Fuzhou Railway Depot of China Railway Nanchang Bureau Group (photo by Wang Yongfu).

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Belt and Road Initiative. Over the past decade, the circle of friends of the Belt and Road Initiative has continued to grow, with more than 150 countries and more than 30 international organizations joining the Belt and Road family, and more than 3,000 cooperation projects have been formed.

Aerial footage of the freight yard of Jiangyin Port Station of China Railway Nanchang Bureau Group *** Fuzhou Train Depot (photo by Wang Yongfu).

Fujian is located on the southeast coast of China and is the starting point of the Maritime Silk Road. In the past ten years since the Belt and Road Initiative was proposed, Fujian has built an international integrated logistics service platform of "Silk Road Shipping" around the construction of an important hub of the "21st Century Maritime Silk Road", attracting 317 enterprises and institutions from all over the world to join, and hundreds of routes connecting ports in 43 countries and regions. On land, the China-Europe freight train will be operated in encrypted mode, and sea-rail combined transport and multimodal transport will be implemented.

Huadian Kemen Port loading and unloading ship position picture (photo by Wang Yongfu).

China Railway Nanchang Bureau Group *** Fuzhou train depot has jurisdiction over more than 60 railway stations in Fuzhou, Putian, Ningde and Nanping four cities, with a railway business line mileage of nearly 1,000 kilometers, and the jurisdiction of the lines involves Hangzhou-Shenzhen line, Hefu line, Changfu line, Quning line, Fuping line, Fengfu line, Fuma branch line, Dongwu branch line, Jiangyin branch line, Kemen branch line and some contact lines. Undertaking the passenger and freight transportation tasks in central Fujian, northern Fujian, southern Fujian and eastern Fujian, the sea-rail intermodal transport starts from Putian East Station, Kemen Station and Jiangyin Port Station in the tube.

Huadian Kemen Port cargo storage yard (photo by Wang Yongfu).

In recent years, in order to further deepen the cooperation between road enterprises, give full play to the location advantages of Meizhou Bay Railway and Putian Port in Putian, open up the coastal radiation of Meizhou Bay in Putian, Fujian Province, and radiate the inland channels of western Fujian, northern Fujian and Fujian and Jiangxi, and increase the volume of freight delivery, Putian East Railway Station has vigorously promoted the transportation of "road to rail" and "scattered to centralized", and further expanded and strengthened the sea-rail combined transport, and established a good communication platform between road and enterprises.

The shunter of Kemen Station of China Railway Nanchang Bureau Group *** Fuzhou Train Depot is pulling out the operation (photo by Wang Yongfu).

We continue to deepen the cooperation mechanism with port enterprises, optimize the transportation mode of sea-rail intermodal transport, improve the loading technology and process, and ensure the steady improvement of the safety and timeliness of energy and material transportation. Tang Zhihai, Secretary of the Party Branch of Putian East Station of China Railway Nanchang Bureau Group, Fuzhou Train Depot, said.

China Railway Nanchang Bureau Group *** Fuzhou Train Depot Jiangyin Port Station Station attendant is working (photo by Wang Yongfu).

Kemen station regularly organizes ports, cargo owners, and loading and unloading teams to hold loading quality analysis meetings, analyzes and finds out the reasons for the loading quality, formulates card control measures, ensures that the loading quality is improved, and satisfies the cargo owners, and has solved more than 10 problems for the cargo owners and ports in the shipping process. Case study and Xi explain the precautions of key links of the operation in combination with the actual situation, analyze the safety risks found, and formulate card control measures to ensure the safe and smooth transportation of the station.

With the continuous creation of the "Belt and Road" work, Putian Luoyu Port, SDIC Meizhou Bay Port, Kemen Port, Jiangyin Port and other ports have shipped goods from more than 20 countries such as Australia, Brazil, South Africa, Malaysia, Iran, India, Russia, the Philippines and Indonesia to inland areas through special railway lines. As of November 23, 2023, the Fuzhou train depot of China Railway Nanchang Bureau Group has sent an annual freight volume of 1483560,000 tons, a year-on-year increase of 116%;Among them, the sea-rail intermodal train sent 91260,000 tons, accounting for 85 percent of the total container traffic25%。

Over the past ten years, the Belt and Road Initiative has been deepening in all aspects and fields, and the Fuzhou train depot of China Railway Nanchang Bureau Group has been closely arranged, freight marketing research has been carried out in different time periods, and the working links between railways and ports have been strengthened to ensure the smooth and orderly progress of safe production, and continue to do a good job in sea-rail intermodal transport related work to help logistics "walk fast".

Wang Yongfu, China's ** Fujian Reporter Station, Editor, Hu Meidong).

*: China**Net.

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