Recently, a China-Europe train carrying domestically produced new energy vehicles departed from Guangzhou International Port. The train left the country through Khorgos Port and arrived in Moscow, Russia. The transportation took about 15 days.

Formation of efficient collection and distribution network

In recent years, the share of new energy vehicles in the overall automobile market has increased year by year. With the resilience of manufacturing and power battery industry chains, China's new energy vehicle exports have shown a growth trend. In the past, the export of China's new energy vehicles was more dependent on sea transportation, which needed to catch up with the shift and the transportation cycle was long. In September 2022, as the China-Europe Railway Express lifted restrictions on the transportation of new energy vehicles, many car companies set their sights on railway transportation. According to the person in charge of Guangwu International Logistics, the transportation environment of the China-Europe Railway Express is stable, the route is stable, and it is not easy to cause damage and corrosion to new energy vehicles, and there are many shifts and stops, which will help the promotion of new energy vehicles in the market along the Belt and Road, making more Multi-national products go to the world.

The first new energy vehicle international train in Guangdong Province departs

In order to ensure the safe and convenient customs clearance of new energy vehicles, Guangzhou Station Customs pays close attention to the new developments in the railway transportation industry, supervises the whole process, opens a priority inspection and release channel for the export of new energy vehicles, smooths the entire chain of business processes, and shortens the customs clearance time. At present, the steel camel team of the China-Europe Railway Express in the Greater Bay Area has crossed the continent and has formed an efficient collection and distribution network with multi-line operation, multi-point consolidation, and multimodal transportation, covering a total of 9 stations in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Dongguan, and Jiangmen. 43 lines have been opened, and the destinations can reach more than 30 countries and regions along the Belt and Road, including Central Asia and Europe. According to statistics from the Guangdong Branch of the General Administration of Customs, Guangdong will operate a total of 965 international freight trains in the direction of Central Europe, Central Asia, and Southeast Asia in 2022, a year-on-year increase of 123.9%.

Give full play to the potential of safe and convenient container transportation

In recent years, Guangwu China-Europe Railway Express has served Guangdong Province to stabilize the overall situation of foreign trade, increased the frequency of trains, and helped about 12,000 foreign trade companies such as Huawei, Midea, and Gree Electric Appliances to export, and strived to maintain the stability of the international supply chain. At the same time, the GMS China Railway Express has also launched international parcel trains, premium trains, cross-border e-commerce trains, direct-passenger LCL trains, etc., becoming one of the important logistics channels connecting the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area to the world.

Wu Zifeng is a freight officer at Shilong Station of the Guangzhou Freight Center of Guangzhou Railway Group. He is mainly responsible for the security inspection of China-Europe freight trains. What we do is to check every trip of the China-Europe Railway Express from us, to safely send the high-quality local products of Dongguan to the country through the steel silk road, and to serve the countries and regions along the Belt and Road. Wu Zifeng said that what impressed him the most was the safety and convenience of the China Railway Express. In July 2022, Shilong Station has opened the qualification for mixed loading of goods, which can save 2 to 3 hours after the inspection. The China-Europe Railway Express will not stop running during the Spring Festival, and the types of goods transported are also constantly enriched.

The goods shipped by Guangwu China Railway Express also cover electronic products, industrial raw materials, clothing, household appliances, etc., and more than 90% of the goods are produced and processed by enterprises in the Pearl River Delta region, which has become a gold-lettered signboard to promote the wide export of Guangzhou goods. Galanz's foreign trade orders for microwave ovens, ovens, refrigerators, dishwashers, etc. have been scheduled to the second quarter.

Deng Guoxian, general manager of Guangdong Guangwu International Train Operation Management Co., Ltd., said that in the future, it will join hands with Guangzhou Railway Group, China Railway Multi-link, and China Railway Union to give full play to the potential of Guangzhou International Port to build a global collection of Guangwu China-Europe Railway Express. The fight center, the Guangdong China-Europe Railway Express cross-border e-commerce supervision center, and the Guangdong China-Europe Railway Express assembly center will jointly promote the high-quality development of China-Europe Railway Express. Editor/He Yuting