China Railway Express (CR Express), a major international freight train service, connecting China, Europe and Belt and Road (BRI) partner countries, offers new opportunities for cooperative and sustainable trade. According to China Railway Group Limited (CREC), a total of 6,184 China-Europe freight trains operated and shipped 675,000 TEU of goods between January and April, up 10 percent and 11 percent respectively from last year.
With ten years of groundbreaking and innovative efforts, the BRI Landmark project, reaching 223 cities in 25 European countries, completed more than 89,000 trips at the end of April.
In the first quarter, five China-Europe freight trains with a full schedule between Xi’an and Duisburg, Germany and Chengdu and Lodz, Poland operated regularly weekly, and the return of 16 overseas China-Europe freight trains served various needs – kind. global customers.
The China-Europe transport service, which has been praised by the international community, not only revives the prosperity of the ancient shoe route, but also serves as an important social benefit to develop cooperation and economic life in Asia and other countries, and improve people’s lives.
CR Express has continuously added new routes and increased capacity over the past decade, providing a Eurasian climate and land transport corridor and a new bridge for economic and trade cooperation, said Mao Ning, a spokesman for China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The service is so cheap that a Foreign Policy magazine analysis in late January called the BRI “the plan every nation needs in times of uncertainty and chaos in the Red Sea crisis.” it’s more of a supply chain. More belts, more roads. “
Over the past 10 years, customs clearance and inspection along the China-Europe railway highway have been simplified, the business environment at ports of entry has improved, and cross-border transport rules and regulations have become more standardized.
As the world enters the era of artificial intelligence (AI), CR Express has an important opportunity to strengthen its position as an important link in the global trade network. AI can optimize logistics operations, improve route planning and improve predictive services for trains. By adopting AI, railway services can achieve greater efficiency, reliability and sustainability, ultimately benefiting all countries involved.
