At 11:18 on April 26, 2024, a China-Europe train loaded with agricultural products departed from Urumqi Sanping Container Center Station and exited through the Horgos Railway Port. It will pass through many countries in Central Asia and cross the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea. , the Mediterranean Sea, and arrived in Salerno, Italy, with a total run of about 10,000 kilometers.

This train departs from the Horgos Railway Port in Xinjiang, China, passes through Kazakhstan, enters the Caspian Sea from Aktau Port, disembarks from the Baku Port in Azerbaijan by sea, and then passes through Azerbaijan and Georgia by train. The port of Poti enters the Black Sea to load cargo ships, passes through the Turkish Straits to the Mediterranean Sea, and finally reaches Salerno, Italy.

Liu Yang, deputy director of the 95306 Freight Logistics Service Center of China Railway Urumqi Bureau: This train adopts the rail-sea combined transport mode and will not be regrouped midway. It is easier to switch goods between rail and sea freight, and transportation costs are lower than ever. The opening of this line provides a new way for Chinese manufacturing to "go global" and lays a solid foundation for promoting the normalization of transportation on the China-Europe South Corridor.

This train is scheduled according to the Caspian Sea and Black Sea shipping schedules, and the railway running time, port operation time and port stay time of each section are scheduled. After arriving at the port, the train enters the port area directly, improving the efficiency of the transfer process and saving more than half of the entire transportation time compared with sea transportation.

Li Shuanping, Director of the Belt and Road International Cooperation Office of the Development and Reform Commission of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region: The launch of the first China-Europe rail train from Urumqi, China to Salerno, Italy, provides a guarantee for the stability of the international industrial chain supply chain and has become a "trade" between China, Europe and countries along the route. stabilizer” and development “accelerator”.

In the first quarter of 2024, China-Europe freight trains operated a total of 4,541 trains, sending 493,000 TEUs of goods, a year-on-year increase of 9% and 10% respectively. As of the end of March 2024, China-Europe freight trains have operated more than 87,000 trains, reaching 222 cities in 25 European countries.Editor/Zhao E