NANJING, Jan 17 (NNN-XINHUA) – East China’s Jiangsu Province, handled 1,800 China-Europe freight train trips in 2021 – a record high – up 29 percent year on year, according to the provincial department of transportation.
The import and export values of goods transported by the freight trains reached nearly 25.6 billion yuan (about four billion U.S. dollars), up 67.7 percent from 2020.
The province added seven new China-Europe freight train routes last year, including the Suzhou-Helsinki and the Nanjing-Tilburg freight train services.
The China-Europe freight train service, kicked off operation in 2011, and has since served as a crucial link for trade and economic cooperation across the Eurasian continent.– NNN-XINHUA
