Railway flatcar transport via ferry, the first of its kind on the Yuehai Railway, was successfully carried out, marking a leap in the railway’s capabilities in military transport. Yuehai Railway, which connects the island province of Hainan with Guangdong on the mainland, covering a distance of 22.5 km, came into service in 2003. It has been tasked with military transport since 2006. However, until now the service has not been used for flatcar or permitted overweight or oversize transport. Related military missions had to rely on shipping, leaving the transportation volume and efficiency of the railway underdeveloped.
Now, with the railway capable of carrying out such operations, the time needed for military delivery from Guangdong to Hainan across the Qiongzhou Strait will be cut by nearly ten hours compared with previous means of having to transfer to shipping. The opening of flatcar transport is expected to further enable military transportation to and from Hainan through the rail.
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