A new rail freight transport service linking Warsaw to Ganzhou was launched last week. It is one of the many new links between Europe and China, but among the first to connect Jiangxi Province, eastern China, to the European continent.
The first train was charged with 41 containers and transited China, towards west, through Manzhouli border of Inner Mongolia. The container transport followed the recently launched similar services, leaving the province to Russia and then crossing several countries from Central Asia.
Ganzhou Province has been mostly isolated from rail freight transport development, mainly because of its mountainous chains, but has come to experience a positive evolution as China has begun to invest massively in its rail infrastructure as part of its expansive project, One Belt One Road.
Thus, Ganzhou slowly becomes an international freight forwarding centre and railway connections to Turkmenistan and Tajikistan are soon to be announced.
At the same time, Inner Mongolia has experienced an increase of its rail freight transport services with benefit from seven railway routes between west and east. The first Europe-China freight train transited Inner Mongolia four years ago.
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