en.Wedoany.com Reported - Data from China State Railway Group Co., Ltd. (China Railway) shows that in the first half of the year, the national railway completed a total freight volume of 2.015 billion tons, a year-on-year increase of 1.8%.
The railway department has launched "passenger-train-style" express freight services, organizing freight trains with passenger-train standards to improve transport efficiency and punctuality. Benchmark express freight trains operate at a maximum speed of 120 km/h, with an average travel speed of 75 km/h, precisely matching the express logistics market for e-commerce and cold chain services. In the first half of the year, cross-bureau freight trains operated a total of 35,800 trips, transporting 38.56 million tons of goods; among them, China-Europe Railway Express operated 11,178 trips, a year-on-year increase of 20%.
On March 28, a freight train loaded with 20 containers of "white goods" departed from Huangtang Railway Freight Yard in Quanzhou City, heading to Xi'an, Shaanxi. "White goods" refer to high-value-added, non-bulk cargo other than bulk commodities such as coal, ore, and steel.
For essential livelihood materials such as coal, the railway department continues to operate direct bulk cargo trains, providing stable point-to-point direct transport by fixing departure and arrival stations, operating cycles, transport routes, and train numbers. In the first half of the year, national railways transported 1.051 billion tons of coal, including 701 million tons of coal for power generation. Coal stockpiles at railway-supplied power plants nationwide remained at a relatively high level.
In addition, the railway department has innovatively launched a "single document" product for rail-water intermodal transport, leveraging the railway 95306 platform to establish an integrated "train + ship" intermodal transport model, connecting railway trunk lines with waterway transport routes along coastal and river ports. In the first half of the year, national railway rail-water intermodal transport volume reached 9.12 million TEUs, a year-on-year increase of 11%; the "single document" product accumulated 59,000 TEUs in bookings.
