110 containers set sail from Rizhao Port, crossing the border through Alashankou and heading straight to Kazakhstan - Shandong Port Logistics Group has just completed a crucial logistics puzzle: the Qingdao Port Rizhao Port Central Asia cross-border channel has been officially opened. This is not simply opening up an additional route, but a landmark step in the implementation of the Shandong Port Dual Port Linkage Strategy from conception to reality.

A precision collaboration across the entire chain

The operation of this foreign trade rail transit train is the result of deep collaboration between logistics groups, customs, railways, and ports. The team promotes the linkage between foreign trade trunk lines, internal branch lines, and railway shipping, pushing the efficiency of the sea rail intermodal transportation system to a new level.

The business team implements precise control over key nodes such as the arrival of branch ships, container transshipment, and railway grouping, coordinates personnel and equipment in advance, delineates exclusive operating areas, and develops special plans. Efficient collaboration with Qingdao Port and Central Asia freight forwarding agents, seamless integration of inspection, packing, re inspection, data reporting and other processes, and smooth ticketing and shipment of freight trains.

From a line to a net

The value of this train is not limited to a single transportation. It verifies the feasibility of Qingdao Port Rizhao Port Central Asia Channel and provides a replicable operation template for Shandong Port to participate in cross-border logistics along the the Belt and Road. The logistics group stated that it will continue to deepen its cultivation of the cross-border logistics market, optimize its production organization mode, strengthen multi-party collaboration, and promote the normalization and efficient operation of the Central Asia freight train. Keywords: Cross border logistics, new logistics channels

On that day, the containers from Zhaogang were heading towards the hinterland of Central Asia, and Shandong Port is using the dual port linkage as a pivot to embed itself into a key node of the global supply chain. The true value of this new channel may not be fully realized until more trains run back and forth, but the direction is already clear.Editor/Cheng Liting