[BP and Zhejiang Energy Group's Natural Gas Market in China]On May 31, 2023, BP officially signed a joint venture contract with Zhejiang Energy Group's natural gas group and its holding companies to jointly establish a liquefied natural gas trading company to sell LNG through tank truck transportation. This is the first collaboration between BP and Zhejiang Energy Natural Gas. This joint venture is BP's third tank truck LNG trading and sales company in China, with the other two being Shenzhen Dapeng Liquefied Natural Gas Sales Co., Ltd. and Xinying Energy Trading Co., Ltd. Editor/Ma Xue
Zhengzhou International Land Port has launched its first international intermodal boxcar train from Putian to Gepuzak, Turkmenistan, using P60 boxcars to transport automotive parts for export to Central Asia, achieving a breakthrough in cross-border transportation of boxcar vehicles. This transportation method increases the tonnage of single vehicles by nearly three times compared to standard containers, which is suitable for the export demand of bulk industrial materials and can significantly increase transportation capacity and reduce the comprehensive logistics costs of enterprises.Editor/Cheng Liting
Recently, the co construction units of China Telecom Research Institute and Changfei Company, along with ZTE Corporation, jointly completed the world's first thousand kilometer air core fiber bidirectional real-time transmission verification: on a 1007.48-kilometer air core fiber link, the extended C+L band single wave 800Gb/s (PCS-16QAM modulation) single fiber bidirectional transmission was achieved, with a total capacity of 128Tb/s (terabits per second), pushing the distance record of real-time transmission of air core fiber to a new height, marking another milestone breakthrough in China's key core technology for next-generation optical communication.Editor/Cheng Liting