By Rui Hu, EDITOR
At 10:30 of September 2, the rail-sea multimodal special container for the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor (ILSTC) departed from Chongqing Tuanjie Village Railway Central Station. All of the 23 containers on this regular train are railway containers. Major goods categories there, including auto parts and electronics, will be transported to Qinzhou Port and then exported to Southeast Asian countries such as Vietnam, Thailand, and Indonesia.
rail-sea multimodal special container for the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor (ILSTC) departed from Chongqing Tuanjie Village.
This is the first practice for “exploring the sharing management mechanism for sea and railway containers” specified in the Master Plan for the ILSTC under the China-Singapore (Chongqing) Demonstrative Initiative on Strategic Connectivity (CCI-ILSTC).
One container throughout the journey to achieve all-win development
It is the first time for the ILSTC to transport foreign trade goods by railway containers. This is an innovative intermodal container transporting model achieved by in-depth cooperation between the ILSTC and the railway and shipping companies, aiming to provide prominent services for their customers.
The practice for the sharing management mechanism is helpful for railway sectors to promote the usage rate of containers and increase their operating benefits. For the customers, such sea-rail intermodal container transportation solves the severe deficiency of foreign trade containers in inland areas. For the company itself, this model helps improve transportation efficiency and lower transportation cost.
Besides, for the corridor, as the sea-rail intermodal container service joins the transport system of foreign trade goods, it gets into a broader inland area to attract more customers to export their commodities via the ILSTC, thus achieving an all-win and mutual benefit development.
Removal of transportation barrier between railway and waterway
The overseas transportation with the intermodal railway containers will lay a solid foundation for the company to undertake foreign trade goods from Europe and Asia when the China Railway Express and Trans-Caspian Railway are completed. The intermodal container transportation model lowers the costs of time and investment. “Railway and waterway containers were in the same specification, but different sectors managed them. Now that the barrier between the railway and waterway is broken, the resources will be shared.”
China-Singapore Southward Channel (Chongqing) Logistics Development Co., Ltd. will continue to accelerate the establishment of the intermodal transportation platform and cooperate with more branches of China Railway Group and international seagoing vessel companies on outbound services, so as to boost the popularization of outbound businesses by such railway containers and provide superior outbound intermodal logistics services via railway containers.
Source: CQCB
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