The China Railway Express (CR Express), a major international freight train service, spans China, Europe, and Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) partner countries, offering new possibilities for collaborative and sustainable trade. Praised by the international community, the transportation service, which not only revitalizes the prosperity of the ancient Silk Road but also enhances people’s livelihoods, serves as a vital public good to promote win-win cooperation and economic vitality across Eurasia and beyond.
After a decade of groundbreaking and innovative efforts, the iconic BRI project, which connects 120 cities in China with 219 cities across 25 European countries, has completed over 85,000 trips by the end of February, according to China Railway Group Limited (CREC).
In the January-February period, nearly 3,000 trips were registered between the continents as CREC inaugurated new routes linking Xi’an, Chongqing and Yiwu in China to Tbilisi in Georgia, Baku in Azerbaijan and Istanbul in Türkiye, dispatching a total of 18 trains along the routes.
The freight train service accomplished a total of 2,928 trips to deliver 317,000 containers of goods in the first two months of 2024, marking a year-on-year increase of 9 percent in trips frequency and 10 percent in cargo volume.
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