On August 25, 2022, the groundbreaking ceremony of the major project of Hubei Yidu Transportation and the construction of the bridgehead of the new central land-sea passage was held in Yidu Zhicheng Port. Hubei Port Group, Yichang Port Group and Yidu will start the construction of a series of land and water railways, etc. Key transportation projects with a total investment of 7.65 billion yuan.

The key projects to be started jointly by the three parties include the Zhicheng Port Special Railway Capacity Expansion and Reconstruction Project with a total investment of 680 million yuan, the Zhicheng Port Rail-Water Intermodal Terminal Phase I Project with a total investment of 350 million yuan, and Zhicheng Port Coal Logistics with a total investment of 100 million yuan 10 projects involving waterway ports, land logistics and railway capacity expansion, including the upgrading and reconstruction project of the reserve base and the Yidu comprehensive logistics and transportation corridor project with a total investment of 1.4 billion yuan, will further strengthen the Yidu transportation "muscles and bones" after the project is implemented and effective. , to help Yidu to speed up the formation of a modern comprehensive transportation system that connects the river and the sea, and the "public, water and railway" interconnection between the inside and outside.

Wang Xiwei, deputy secretary of the Party Committee and general manager of Hubei Port Group, said that the implementation of a series of projects such as the expansion and reconstruction project of the special railway for Zhicheng Port, for the expansion and upgrading of the Jiao-Liu Railway, will open up Yichang-Liuzhou-Beibu Gulf-Southeast Asia River, Railway and Sea, and the land and sea in the middle of the Belt and Road. The new intermodal transport channel lays a solid foundation for the development of container multimodal transport in Yidu Zhicheng Port and the building of a new bridgehead for the central land-sea channel. Editor/He Yuting