China-Europe Railway Express from Yiwu, China Adds Direct Stop at Miramas in Southern France

en.Wedoany.com Reported - On November 13, the China-Europe Railway Express (Yixinou) from Zhejiang, China departed from Yiwu Railway West Station, launching for the first time an international rail freight route from Yiwu to Miramas, France. The inaugural train, fully loaded with 110 standard containers carrying export goods such as complete air conditioning units and household daily necessities, arrived at the Miramas railway marshalling yard in southern France, adding a new rail transport corridor to southern France for export goods from Zhejiang and surrounding regions.

The train exited China through the Alashankou railway port in Xinjiang, transited through Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, Poland and Germany, and finally entered Miramas, France. The route adopts the international combined rail transport model, connecting the Yiwu export cargo consolidation center with the railway node in southern France. The inaugural shipment included industrial manufactured goods and commercial commodities.

The Miramas railway marshalling yard is located in the Bouches-du-Rhône department in the Provence region of France, near Marseille and the Port of Fos, and is an important node in the railway freight network of southern France. The yard handles container rail transport and cargo consolidation operations, and connects with local road transport and regional logistics networks, providing onward distribution conditions for goods arriving in southern France.

Previously, the China-Europe Railway Express routes from Zhejiang to France already covered the northern station of Dourges. In February 2018, the Yiwu–Dourges train service was launched. With the addition of the Miramas station, the China-Europe Railway Express from Zhejiang now has two rail terminal nodes in France, one in the north and one in the south. Goods destined for different locations can choose the appropriate station based on transport needs, reducing the need for some cargo bound for southern France to transit through northern stations.