The China-Europe freight trains delivered 1.35 million TEU in the whole year, an increase of 56% over the same period in 2019. The number of annual trains exceeded 10,000 for the first time, and the average monthly trains remained at more than 1,000.

In the first two months of this year, China-Europe freight trains in the Yangtze River Delta were booming, with 523 trains and 50,700 TEU shipped, more than double the number in the same period last year.Zhejiang Yiwu China-Europe freight train is a cabin is difficult to find, and even need a lottery booking space.

Since March, customers in Spain and Germany have ordered another 40 million masks, and production is scheduled until May.These orders from Europe are to be delivered through the China-Europe freight train.However, recently, the China-Europe freight train capacity is tight, the first cabin is difficult to find, and even the need to lottery the news, so many local foreign trade enterprises are in charge of the seat uneasy.

Affected by overseas epidemics, the price of sea freight has increased and the air freight routes have been sharply reduced. For the same destination, the time of China-Europe freight train is 1/3 of that of sea freight and the cost is 1/5 of air freight. The high cost performance of China-Europe freight train has been favored by more and more local enterprises.

As the China-Europe freight train reduces the cost for enterprises to participate in the global trade chain, some cross-border e-commerce companies have also started to choose the China-Europe freight train.At the express “cross-border” supervision center in Yiwu, goods from cross-border e-commerce platforms are being inspected before they go abroad on the China-Europe freight train to countries such as the UK, France, Germany, Russia, Poland and the Czech Republic.

Foreign trade companies and cross-border e-commerce platforms are eyeing China-Europe freight trains, which makes Wang’s suspenses even more tense.Mr Wang’s company has long made daily goods on the China-Europe freight train to travel across Europe, where tight shipping Spaces mean queues.The wholesale masks for Duisburg, Germany, have been packaged and completed, and the scheduling schedule for the China-Europe freight train has been scheduled for a month.

Since the COVID-19 outbreak began around the world, both shipping and air freight have been severely affected, but demand by rail has continued to rise.At present, Yiwu China-Europe freight trains have 15 lines in operation, connecting 49 countries and regions on the Eurasian continent including Germany, Spain and Vietnam.In addition to local goods, more than 100,000 kinds of goods with made-in-China labels from eight provinces and cities, including Shanghai, Jiangsu and Anhui, will also be distributed in Yiwu to “go global” on the China-Europe freight train.

According to statistics, in the whole year of 2020, a total of 974 China-Europe freight trains operated in Yiwu, including 891 departing trains and 83 returning trains. A total of 80,392 standard boxes were shipped, with a year-on-year growth of 90.2%.In 2021, the number of China-Europe freight trains in Yiwu shows a trend of accelerated growth.

In order to improve efficiency, the operation department developed the freight train operation system, and the freight forwarder company, the platform party of the freight train and the railway department worked together, which also enabled the rapid circulation of Wang Hua’s applications for this batch of mask shipping space.

With lower cost than air transportation and less time than sea transportation, more and more cross-border e-commerce enterprises also take advantage of the eastwind of China-Europe freight trains to take off, especially to import goods needed in China by using the return train.

As a loyal customer of China-Europe return train, a trading company in Zhejiang province has imported cleaning products from Portugal to China by railway and gradually expanded the market.From 4 single products in 2017 to 54 now, in just a few years, their products have realized the full coverage of domestic online platforms, and have entered into large-scale offline stores, and their sales have continued to grow strongly at an annual growth rate of 30%.

Since the company has production bases in Portugal, Spain and Poland, through the “Yihai-New Europe” return train, the timeliness has been guaranteed, and some seasonal products urgently needed by customers can enter the Chinese market steadily and unimpeded.

With the successful two-way operation of the China-Europe Railway Express, wooden flooring, wine and other local “specialties” in Europe are more easily accessible to ordinary people through the China-Europe Railway Express.From January to February this year, Zhejiang Sino-Europe return freight trains reached 104 3560 TEU, and the goods of return freight trains were mainly production materials such as wood, electrolytic copper and cotton yarn.

In zhejiang province at present, china-eu trains the operating line to 28, unicom has 69 countries and regions, Eurasian transport goods covers hardware, textile products, auto parts, household items, goods and materials in the fields of engineering equipment and epidemic prevention, and become the country’s largest, to operating direction load rate and the return rate is highest, one of the fastest growth rate central trains operating lines.

Due to the continuous flow of goods into and out of Yiwu West Station, there will be a net inflow of 150 containers every day at the peak, which makes the total storage capacity of 3000 TEU of Yiwu West Station nearly saturated.In order to further enhance the capacity of CFS shipment, railway departments more measures simultaneously, through the container yard capacity expansion, storage bin location, loading and unloading machinery do upgrade, do homework, predicts in the middle of 2021, container capacity will increase from current 15%, loading and unloading efficiency can be increased by 30%, can effectively guarantee the capacity demand for import and export business.

While ensuring the transport capacity, the epidemic prevention and killing of imported goods is also the top priority in the current process of goods circulation.In addition to the completion of COVID-19 vaccination by all front-line workers, all imported goods will be controlled and killed by special personnel at fixed places of Yiwu Railway Port before transhipment. The whereabouts information of the goods will be tracked throughout the whole process to ensure that all imported goods are tracable and documented.