Cross-border freight trains have enabled Tianjin to continue in its role as a transfer hub of a sea-rail corridor linking Eurasian countries with the world.
Cross-border freight trains from the coastal city in North China carry Chinese products to Eurasian countries such as Mongolia and Russia. They also transport cargo to Eurasia that has arrived by sea from such as Japan and South Korea.
On Monday, a train carrying 54 containers containing auto parts and daily necessities left Tianjin to travel via Ereenhot in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region to Ulaanbaatar, capital of Mongolia. It was the 754th such train operated by the China Railway Beijing Group this year.
Some of the containers arrived in Tianjin from other countries by sea.
"Tianjin Port, as one of the largest ports in northern China, receives a lot of imported cargo via the sea from places such as Japan, Korea, Europe and North America. The products travel to Tianjin by sea, and then make a transfer here and continue their journey by rail via China-Europe freight trains, to Eurasian countries, such as Mongolia and Russia," said Sun Kai, a manager at the Tianjin Freight Center of China Railway Beijing Group.
"Tianjin is located at the junction of the land and sea, both critical geographic locations in the Belt and Road Initiative. It is also the eastern starting point of the China-Mongolia-Russia Economic Corridor," said Zhang Jinchao, deputy director of the freight transport department of China Railway Beijing Group.
Source：Chinadaily
