At 6 o'clock in the morning on December 17, a return journey from Turkey to China and Europe was accompanied by dawn mist slowly entering the country through Khorgos Port. This is Turkey's first freight train for export commodities to China, arriving at the destination of Xi'an Xinzhu Station on December 19.
It is understood that this is the first special train that departs from Turkey and is fully loaded with goods since the China-Europe Railway passed through Turkey for the first time in November 2019. A total of 42 containers were carried, with a cargo weight of 163.68 tons and a value of 10.3694 million yuan, passing through the Eurasian continent and five countries, and the whole journey was 8,693 kilometers.
In order to ensure that the Turkish special train runs efficiently and smoothly in the customs clearance process at the port, Khorgos Customs, railway departments and agency companies have worked together, especially the implementation of paperless transit operations and automatic inspection of import transit. The limit has compressed the train stop time. At the same time, it further integrates the supervision operation process, and implements the simultaneous implementation of the inbound train reloading operation and enterprise declaration to ensure the seamless connection between customs supervision and the railway department's operations, and realize the "second-level release" of the train.
It is worth mentioning that this is also the first operation of the return train via the Southern Corridor of China-Europe train (referring to the transportation network including the Trans-Caspian Transport Corridor and the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars BTK Railway). The successful operation of this train will drive more logistics and freight resources into the southern route, thereby reducing operating costs, promoting route advantages into market benefits, and injecting new momentum into the construction of the “Belt and Road” and the development of an open economy.
Since the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, global logistics have been poor and trade has shrunk. However, during the epidemic, the China-Europe express trains bucked the trend and became a fate link for cooperation among countries along the route. The role of stabilizing the international supply chain has become increasingly prominent. The opening of freight trains for export commodities to China will further promote the economic recovery of countries along the route, strengthen the interconnection of trade and culture, and better serve the people of the countries along the route.
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