On the 18th, the second China-Europe Railway Express International Cooperation Forum was held in Xi'an, Shaanxi. During the forum, the China Railway Group released the fourth batch of China-Europe trains with full timetables, and the number of China-Europe trains with full timetables increased to more than 1,000 per year.
The fourth batch of full timetable China-Europe freight trains has 7 new operating routes, namely:
Zhengzhou to Hamburg, Germany;
Xi'an to Prague, Czech Republic;
Jinan, Chongqing, Xi'an to Budapest, Hungary;
Changsha to Poznan, Poland, and Shijiazhuang to Warsaw, Poland.
So far, the number of China-Europe freight train routes with full timetables has increased to 17, covering 9 cities in China and 6 cities in Europe.
In 2022, the first batch of China-Europe trains with a full timetable for the Chinese section, broad gauge section, and European section were successfully launched. Since then, after two expansions, the number of trains has increased to more than 800 trains per year. Compared with ordinary China-Europe trains running on the same route, the running time of China-Europe trains that implement a full timetable is reduced by more than 30% on average, and is generally welcomed by the international logistics market.
(CCTV reporter Zheng Liankai)
