Since the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway－the core project of Turkey’s “Middle Corridor Initiative”－was officially put into operation on Oct 30, 2017, its actual utilization rate has been tepid and unsatisfactory. Statistics show that from the beginning of its opening to June 30, the total volume of container transportation on this route was 33,267 twenty-foot equivalent units. Among…
A new high-speed railway section entered service on Sunday in Shandong province, adding the city of Heze to the network. The 199-kilometer segment connecting Qufu in Jining city with Zhuangzhai town in Heze’s Caoxian county is part of the high-speed rail service Rizhao, Shandong and Lankao county in Henan province. It is designed for speeds…
JINAN — A new high-speed railway section went operational on Sunday in east China’s Shandong province, bringing the city of Heze into the country’s high-speed rail network. The 199-km new rail section connects the city of Qufu and Zhuangzhai township, Heze’s Caoxian county, said the China Railway Jinan Group Co., Ltd. The fastest train takes…
Winter school vacation has arrived in the Tibet autonomous region, and the Lhasa Railway Station provided special services to get students home safely, China News Service reported. More than 700 students from Lhasa-Nagchu Third High School in Lhasa went home on a special train recently. The students were from Nagchu, about 300 kilometers from Lhasa.…
A new transnational railway line for cargo connecting Haidong, Qinghai province, Shigatse, Tibet autonomous region and Kathmandu, Nepal, opened recently, according to China Railway Qinghai-Tibet Group. The opening ceremony for the new service was held last week in the Ping’an district of Haidong, making a major breakthrough for the city’s international road and rail freight…
Liaoning opening up to wider world with free trade zone and continental freight train service Wang Xinwei, Party secretary of Shenyang, capital of Liaoning province, said: “In recent years, Shenyang has made great efforts in promoting cross-border trade and attracting investment, which has helped Shenyang improve its level of opening-up to the outside world and…
Jakarta-Bandung HSR will run next year and boost local progress In building Southeast Asia’s first high-speed railway in Indonesia, State-owned China Tiesiju Civil Engineering Group has successfully trained nearly 2,000 local technical staff in a bid to ensure the full operation of the railway in 2022. Starting construction in June 2018, the 142.3-kilometer Jakarta-Bandung HSR…
A special train transporting apples from the deep mountains of Yunnan province brings wealth to farmers and promotes rural vitalization. Every morning in winter, local farmers wait at Yunnan’s Zhaotong Railway Station with big bamboo baskets piled high with apples and hope for good sales. The railway, which opened in 2003, reaches 407 kilometers between…
A smooth trade and logistics route-the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor-linking western China and the world shows how the nation can achieve a higher level of inland opening-up and help its western region further integrate into the global economy, said Li Wei, the director of the marketing department of New Land-Sea Corridor Operation Chongqing. “So…
China’s top economic regulator and the African Union Commission signed a memorandum of understanding for further cooperation under the Belt and Road Initiative. The MoU signed on Monday focused on the establishment of the initiative’s cooperative working coordination mechanism, a statement released on the NDRC’s official website said on Tuesday. The head of the NDRC,…