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21:33, 04-Aug-2018
China opens new freight train service to Milan
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21:08, 07-Aug-2018
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A new freight train linking east China's Shandong Province with Milan, Italy, started service Friday on the newest China-Europe freight train route.
A 41-container train carrying clothing, electronic products, and machinery departed from Yanzhou North railway station in Jining, on Friday morning. The train will run every Friday.
The 10,900-km journey, which makes a stop in Chengdu for customs clearance, will take 18 days, said Zhang Benhong, deputy head of the railway station.
Direct freight train services will be launched between Shandong and Europe on August 31. Trains departing from Yanzhou North railway station will ship goods to cities including Warsaw in Poland, and Hamburg and Duisburg in Germany via Russia and Belarus.
By the end of June, China-Europe freight trains had made over 9,000 trips since the service began in 2011. The trains are currently operated between 48 Chinese cities and 42 cities in 14 European countries.
Source(s): Xinhua News Agency