As trains loaded with photovoltaic modules and new energy vehicles roar westward from Shijiazhuang, this inland city is embedding itself at the core node of the global supply chain at a speed beyond most people's imagination.

In the first five months of 2026, Shijiazhuang International Land Port operated over 600 China Europe (Asia) trains, a year-on-year increase of 21.1%, with a cargo value exceeding 6.1 billion yuan, continuing its strong growth momentum. As a hub for China Europe freight trains in the North China region and a national logistics hub for land and port type countries, Shijiazhuang has opened 18 international routes covering more than 50 countries and regions, forming an international logistics corridor serving the Beijing Tianjin Hebei metropolitan area and radiating to the Eurasian continent.

Going from heavy to heavy and returning to the timetable train

The manufacturing industry in the Beijing Tianjin Hebei region has a solid foundation, and the import and export scale of characteristic industries continues to expand, directly driving cross-border transportation demand. Liu Yinpeng, General Manager of Hebei International Land Port Co., Ltd., stated that the attractiveness of the China Europe freight train continues to increase due to its stability and timeliness advantages.

Nowadays, the land port has achieved a leap from one-way heavy return to heavy return, from ordinary trains to full timetable trains. The weekly full schedule train operates on a fixed route and schedule, and can arrive in Warsaw, Poland in 14 days and 3 hours. Goods can be quickly distributed to multiple countries such as Germany, France, and the Netherlands, significantly improving the resilience of the supply chain.

Goods are changing, ecology is also changing

With the deepening of the action of expanding the market for Hebei goods overseas, the land port has laid out more than 30 cross-border cargo warehouses around 107 key characteristic industrial clusters in Hebei, building logistics nodes at the doorstep of industrial clusters and providing one-stop services for booking, consolidation, warehousing and customs declaration, helping enterprises to reduce cross-border logistics costs. The product structure is also upgrading synchronously, expanding from daily necessities, clothing and luggage to high value-added products such as mechanical parts, automotive parts, new energy vehicles, and photovoltaic modules. Keywords: land port logistics, China Europe freight trains

The smooth passage is giving birth to a richer land port ecosystem. Lugang Cloud Warehouse creates a fusion model of live streaming, warehousing, and distribution to activate e-commerce vitality; Grain and oil storage will carry out large-scale raw material collection and storage to stabilize the regional supply chain; The Hebei Cross border Ecological Service Platform has been implemented and put into use; Accelerate the construction of port related industrial projects such as grain circulation, bulk commodity trading, automobile distribution, and pharmaceutical cold chain. A multi industry cluster of land and port ecosystems is taking shape, and Shijiazhuang is evolving from a transportation hub to an industrial hub.Editor/Cheng Liting