In order to avoid the risk of default of the machine's failure to deliver on time. At 15:00 on March 13, 2021, 21,028 heavy machinery China-Europe trains carrying 49 40-foot containers departed from Guangxi Nanning International Railway Port to Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan. This is the first heavy machinery China-Europe train from Guangxi, opening up a new route "Nanning-Xi'an (Xinzhu)-Nur Sultan".

Zhong Haijie, Secretary of the Party Branch of the Nanning South Business Office of the Nanning Freight Center of China Railway Nanning Bureau Group Co., Ltd., said that this is the first China-Europe train since the first phase of the Nanning International Railway Port was completed and put into use. The launch of this train means that Nanning, as an important logistics node of the new land-sea corridor in the west, has successfully connected the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road and the Silk Road Economic Belt effectively. The opening of the train will surely drive the surrounding logistics to gather in Nanning, making Nanning a truly ASEAN-oriented international logistics hub.

According to reports, Nanning International Railway Port, based on road-rail, air-rail, and sea-rail combined transportation, is a key project for Guangxi to participate in the construction of the new land-sea corridor in the west. After it is completed, it will become the core node of the new land-sea corridor and a modern port-industry-city integrated linkage. Logistics benchmark.

According to information provided by China Railway Nanning Bureau Group Co., Ltd., in 2020, the second phase of Nanning International Railway Port has started construction. Since the first phase of the port project was completed and put into use, the operation level of China-Vietnam cross-border trains has steadily improved. Products such as wheat, starch, flour, refined salt, glass, cotton yarn, and diesel engines from the central and western regions of China are shipped to Vietnam and other ASEAN countries via the China-Vietnam trains. Countries, return shipments of daily necessities and other imported goods to ASEAN countries will be opened in 2018, with 59 rows in 2018, 111 rows in 2019, and 166 rows in 2020. In the first two months of 2021, 56 Sino-Vietnamese cross-border trains have opened, an increase of 132% year-on-year, which has become an important driving force for promoting economic and trade cooperation between China and ASEAN countries and the construction of the Belt and Road Initiative. In 2021, as the overseas epidemic situation is still severe, border customs in various countries will be tightened, and port highways and waterways will be slow to pass. Guangxi Construction Engineering Group Construction Machinery Manufacturing Co., Ltd. once faced the risk of default due to the slow export and transportation of tower cranes. After the tower crane is successfully shipped from Nanning International Railway Port on the China-Europe Express, the machine is expected to be delivered on schedule. The total journey of this heavy machinery China-Europe train is about 5,031 kilometers, and the estimated running time is 13 days. Weng Yuanchun, manager of Guangxi Construction Machinery Manufacturing Co., Ltd., said: “In the past, we used to transport tower cranes to Kazakhstan mainly by road, which took about one and a half months. Save more than 30 days of time, more efficient and faster."

This heavy machinery China-Europe train connects Nanning and Xi'an, which is of great significance for driving the upstream and downstream cooperation of the central and western industrial chain, exerting Nanning's function as a core city in the Beibu Gulf Economic Zone, and radiating and driving the development of industries in the surrounding areas. Editor/Sang Xiaomei