At 3:55 a.m. on June 21, an X8155 China-Europe train loaded with auto parts, LED displays and other goods set off from Xi'an International Port Station and headed for Duisburg, Germany. This seemingly ordinary train carries a special significance - it is the 1,000th China-Europe train with a full-time schedule in China, marking that the China-Europe train has officially entered a new era of high-speed railway-style precision operation. This milestone breakthrough not only refreshes the record of international railway intermodal transport, but also demonstrates China's growing voice and influence in the field of international logistics.  

The Timetable Revolution: Reshaping International Rail Freight Standards

Since the first train opened on October 26, 2022, the China-Europe Express has achieved leapfrog development from 0 to 1,000 trains in only 20 months. This innovative model has achieved three breakthroughs through the standardized operation map jointly formulated by the railway departments of China, Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, Poland, Germany and other countries along the line: first, in terms of timeliness, the stay time of the train at each port has been greatly reduced from 24-48 hours in the traditional mode to 4-6 hours, and the whole transportation time is shortened by more than 20% compared with the ordinary train; Secondly, in terms of supply structure, with stable timeliness, it has attracted high value-added goods including photovoltaic modules, precision instruments, medical equipment, etc., with an average value of US$120,000 per container, 41% higher than that of ordinary trains; Third, in terms of network coverage, 10 fixed lines have been formed, covering 26 major cities in 18 European countries.  

Value upgrading: The proportion of high value-added goods continues to rise

With the increasingly prominent brand effect of the whole timetable train, the structure of the goods it carries is undergoing qualitative changes. According to the data, high value-added products account for more than 65% of the goods transported by the full-time schedule, with a total of more than 98,000 TEUs of goods transported, and the value of the goods has exceeded 10 billion US dollars. At Xi'an International Port Station, batches of solar panels are being shipped intensively, and these products have extremely high requirements for transportation timeliness and stability. With the full schedule train, our cargo from Xi'an to Duisburg takes only 12 days, which is more than 20 days less than sea freight, and the breakage rate is almost zero. The person in charge of logistics of a photovoltaic company said. This kind of "door-to-door" precise service is reshaping the industrial and supply chain pattern of the Eurasian continent.  

Chinese wisdom: to create a new paradigm of international logistics 

The successful practice of the whole timetable train demonstrates China's three core advantages in the field of international logistics: in terms of technological innovation, the self-developed "railway-customs-logistics" collaborative system has realized the whole process of visual monitoring, and the accuracy of cargo tracking has reached the minute level; In terms of rule-making, the "Technical Specifications for China-Europe Railway Trains in the Full Timetable" has become an industry standard; In terms of industrial drive, the "train industrial park" model formed in major node cities has driven more than 2,000 foreign trade enterprises to gather in the surrounding areas. China's National Development and Reform Commission's Belt and Road Construction Promotion Center said that the next step will be to promote this model to Central Asia and Southeast Asia, and plans to achieve an annual operation volume of more than 3,000 trains by 2025, and continue to inject new momentum into global economic and trade exchanges.(This article is from the official website of Seetao www.seetao.com. Reprinting without permission is strictly prohibited. Please indicate Seetao.com + original link when reprinting) Seetao.com Strategy Column Editor/Sun Fengjuan