To meet the growing demand for cross-continent freight rail transportation, more cargo trains between China and Europe were operated in the first half of this year, supporting the stability of the international supply chain, operator China State Railway Group said on Thursday. From January to June, a total of 8,641 freight trains were operated between…
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Iran and Russia signed an executory contract on Tuesday for the construction of a railway inside Iran, which will be part of an international transport route linking South Asia to Northern Europe. The contract was signed on the sidelines of a trilateral meeting among Iran, Russia, and India on the facilitation of transit through the…
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China has launched performance verification tests on an even faster high-speed train, the country’s railway operator said Saturday. The tests were made on June 28 and 29 separately in east China’s Fujian Province, marking that developing the CR450 bullet train has achieved initial results, according to the China State Railway Group Co., Ltd. During the…
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Bullet trains traveled at speeds of 453 kilometers per hour and 420 km/h on test runs recently, demonstrating further evidence of China’s rapid development of high-speed trains, the national railway operator China State Railway Group said on Saturday. The test runs were carried out along the high-speed railway linking Fuzhou and Xiamen in Fujian province…
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Chinese-built Ethiopia-Djibouti railway has seen the passing of 1,824 passenger trains with the transportation of nearly 530,900 passengers during its five and half years of operation, an Ethiopian government official disclosed Friday. Alemu Sime, minister of Transport and Logistics, made the remarks while addressing a high-level meeting themed “China-Ethiopia Building Belt and Road.” The roundtable…
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NANJING, June 24 (Xinhua) On Saturday, Line 11 of the Suzhou metro went into operation, linking the city of Suzhou, a major GDP contributor in east China’s Jiangsu Province, with Shanghai, another economic heavyweight in the region. This is the first time that the core cities in the Yangtze River Delta region have linked their separate…
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This aerial photo taken on April 7, 2023 shows a container ship sailing at Tianjin Port in North China’s Tianjin. [Photo/Xinhua] LANZHOU — A freight train carrying 300 tonnes of magnesium chloride departed from a station of Wuwei city in Northwest China’s Gansu province on Thursday, heading for North China’s Tianjin Port before arriving at…
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Rail network to increase train services from July 1 The first test train runs on the second Shanghai-Nanjing intercity high-speed railway spanning the Yangtze River on June 15, 2023. [Photo/chinadaily.com.cn] China’s national railway network will implement a new train schedule from July 1, according to the China State Railway Group on Tuesday. A total of…
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The first test train runs on the second Shanghai-Nanjing intercity high-speed railway spanning the Yangtze River on Thursday. The railway is being partly built by China Railway 24th Bureau Group Corp Ltd. [Photo/China Daily] China’s high-speed railway expansion charged ahead on Thursday with a new line that is expected to slash travel times in eastern…
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KUNMING, June 13 (Xinhua) — The China-Laos Railway has handled 25,000 cross-border passenger trips since the launch of its passenger services on April 13, according to the Mohan entry-exit border checkpoint. During the period, the Chinese border town of Mohan in the country’s southwestern Yunnan Province logged 14,156 inbound passenger trips and 11,752 outbound trips.…
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