On October 18, 2026, the construction of the Erlianhaote Zhongyuan Land Port Railway Dedicated Line project officially broke ground. The total investment of 420 million yuan for the public rail intermodal hub project marks a crucial milestone in the core node of the China Mongolia Russia Economic Corridor. This is a substantial step in the cross-border logistics upgrade process of this country's first-class open port.

The traditional operation mode at the port is undergoing a systematic upgrade

As an important hub for the joint construction of the the Belt and Road Middle Passage, Erenhot Port has seen a continuous increase in cross-border trade volume in recent years. The original traditional mode of secondary reshipment of sporadic operations has been difficult to adapt to the rapidly growing demand for multimodal transport. The newly built Zhongyuan Land Port Railway Dedicated Line project relies on the natural location advantages of the port to create a comprehensive core station for public rail intermodal transportation, directly realizing the closed-loop operation of railway re entry and re exit from the port, significantly reducing the transit link of goods, effectively shortening the cross-border freight transportation time, and systematically reducing the cross-border logistics costs of the entire chain.

The project is synchronized with standardized inspection sites, intelligent checkpoints, and other infrastructure to create a one-stop intelligent customs clearance supervision system, achieving efficient operation of the entire process of entry, storage, inspection, and release, completely changing the pain points of scattered and unsmooth connections between different operational links in the past. After the station is put into operation, it can simultaneously undertake various types of cargo operations such as bulk cargo container cross-border e-commerce, no longer limited by the ability of single cargo operations, and fully cover the mainstream cross-border cargo categories at the current port.

Accelerating the transformation of channel advantages into industrial advantages

At the project commencement site, representatives from relevant departments, enterprises, and participating units witnessed the start of the project. The owner unit clearly stated that they will strengthen their main responsibility for construction, strictly adhere to the bottom line of safety production, strictly control the quality of the project, scientifically organize the entire construction cycle, and make every effort to create a benchmark project for port logistics, promoting the early completion and commissioning of the project. With the completion and operation of the dedicated line in the future, the core capacity of multimodal transport at Erenhot Port will achieve a qualitative leap. The advantage of the channel, which was originally only a transit node, will gradually be transformed into tangible logistics advantages, industrial advantages, and economic advantages.

After the landing of this cross-border logistics transit hub between China, Mongolia, and Russia, it will further open up the international logistics corridor between China, Mongolia, and Russia, injecting new impetus into the high-quality development of the economy at Erenhot Port and becoming another benchmark multimodal transportation infrastructure node on the China Mongolia Russia economic corridor. Keywords: China Mongolia Russia Economic Corridor, Land Port Railway

From the port passage to the industrial hub, Erenhot is using a newly built railway dedicated line to gradually transform the potential for northward opening into visible development momentum.Editor/Cheng Liting