On April 3, 2024, at Ningxia Yinchuan International Public Railway Logistics Port, lifting vehicles shuttle back and forth between the cargo yard and storage area, loading and unloading export goods about to be shipped to India, and providing high-efficiency transshipment services for goods entering and leaving the port.

Ningxia, as an important logistics hub in the northwest region, carries the east and starts the west, connecting the north and south, smooth internal and external. In recent years, with the rapid development of regional industries and the gathering of resources in the Yellow River Basin, the demand for comprehensive freight transportation to form a network in the region, connect the whole country and open up to the outside world is increasing day by day. Ningxia Department of Transportation to inland port as a platform for multimodal transport as a basis, vigorously develop the modern logistics industry, and promote the advantages of inland location into economic advantages, to accelerate the "Belt and Road" to the deep development of strategic significance.

It is understood that Ningxia introduced the implementation plan of transportation structure adjustment, and actively play the role of local people's government, relevant industry management departments, market players and other aspects to form a strong synergy to promote the development of multimodal transport. Ningxia Department of Transportation jointly with the Department of Finance issued the "Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region Road Transportation Service High Quality Development Fund Management Measures", which includes multimodal transportation projects in the scope of subsidies, providing financial guarantee for the high-quality development of multimodal transportation. In terms of elemental improvement, relying on the industrial layout and transportation system, focusing on networking, mending the network, strengthening the chain, and making every effort to build multimodal freight transportation hubs such as public railway, land and air. Accelerate the construction process of Yinchuan and Zhongwei national comprehensive transportation hub city, and orderly promote the national comprehensive freight hub to make up the chain and strengthen the chain project.

"Through the multimodal transport 'a single system' 'a box in the end', opened up the entire logistics chain, and now do the sea box 'ashore', rail box 'to the sea', the rapid return of containers to achieve a global cycle, from the original delivery of goods time is about 15 working days to now shorten the 7 working days, to improve the efficiency of integrated transport, promote the deep integration of various modes of transport, further optimize the adjustment of the transport structure, and further realize the logistics of cost reduction and efficiency and improve the trade service level." Yan Xinghua, chairman of Ningxia Xinhua Logistics Co., Ltd. introduced that "one single system" has realized the leapfrog development from nothing to something, from something to something, Xinhua Logistics has taken advantage of the situation and developed from the shipping volume of about 20 containers per month in 2022 to a monthly average of more than 200 containers per month in 2023, and now it has realized the monthly container shipping volume of 400 containers per month. Container shipment volume is above 400 boxes, and is expected to reach about 6,000 boxes in 2024.

In 2023, container shipments in Ningxia region totaled 9.5116 million tons, realizing the transformation of bulk cargo from "black" logistics to "green" logistics. Relying on the railroad advantages of Yinchuan, Zhongwei and Huinong inland waterless ports, strengthening the linkage with Caofeidian, Tianjin Port, Qingdao Port, Shanghai Port and other coastal ports, regularizing the operation of iron and sea multimodal intermodal shuttle trains to Tianjin Port, and launching the "one-order system" brand of public, iron and sea multimodal intermodal transportation, opening up the Ningxia-Tianjin Port -Dubai "one single system" iron and sea multimodal transport international freight export channel and Russian linseed "one box in the end" iron and sea multimodal transport international freight import channel, so that the Ningxia goods out of the sea more "convenient! The "one single system" international freight export channel and the "one box to the end" international freight import channel for Russian linseed make it more convenient for Ningxia's goods to go to sea.Editor/Zhao E