Anhui sends out the first trip of the New Year to Hamburg, Germany, full of "Made in China"

Xinhua Hefei, Jan. 7 (Reporters Dong Xue and Liu Fangqiang) At 23:11 p.m. on the 4th, accompanied by the sound of the train starting, Anhui's first Chinese-European train in 2019 slowly pulled out under the night, carrying 94 standard boxes, more than $5 million worth of "Made in China" optical fibers, robotic parts, servo motors and so on, all the way westward to Hamburg, Germany.

Starting from Hefei North Railway Station and departing from Alashan Port in Xinjiang, through Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus and Poland, it finally arrives in Hamburg, Germany. The international freight train from Hefei to Hamburg is 10937 kilometers. Hefei International Inland Port Development Co., Ltd. is responsible for managing the daily transportation of the Central European Banquet. Chen Feng, Vice General Manager of the company, likens it to "steel camels" on the Millennium Silk Road. These "steel camels" are gradually becoming the new engine of Anhui's opening up.

On January 4, Anhui's first China-Europe train in 2019 was loading.

"From 1950s to 1970s, Anhui did not open its ports to the outside world. Import and export goods and entry-exit personnel could only enter and exit from coastal ports." According to the relevant person in charge of Anhui Business Department, like actively building water ports such as Ma'anshan Port, Wuhu Port, Tongling Port, Hefei Xinqiao International Airport and other air ports, Hefei Central European Banlieu is also one of the practices of the province to adhere to the construction of open corridors and create new inland open lands.

Data show that from June 26, 2015 to the end of December 2018, 187 international freight trains and 17778 standard boxes were dispatched from Hefei to Hamburg. At present, the fixed departure volume has been further increased from an average of 2 shifts per week to 3 shifts, serving a large number of foreign trade enterprises from Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai, Guangdong and other places.

Anhui Yongcheng Machinery Co., Ltd. multi-functional robot axle box and other products are in the first transport list. "It takes about 32 days to get to Europe by sea. If there is bad weather, the time will be more difficult to control. The Central European shift not only shortens the transportation time by half, but also is not affected by weather and other factors, so it runs more steadily. Zhang Min, deputy general manager of the company, told reporters that since 2018, the company has changed its single mode of transport, relying solely on sea transportation, and began to try to ship the main parts and components of industrial robots produced by the company to Europe through the Central European Banquet.

According to Qian Chuanjun, deputy manager of the integrated management department of Hefei International Inland Port Development Co., Ltd., who participated in the whole process, in 2018, Hefei's Central European Banquet continued to innovate and opened up many new channels for economic and trade cooperation. The national first Hefei-Finland Helsine Baseline Road aimed at the extensive freight market in Nordic Europe, ending the situation that there was no Central European Banquet arriving in Nordic market, and also issued one after another. Out of the service of local enterprises in Anhui Province, the United States customized train, Ankai bus special demand train, Jianghuai car special train, Fuyang special train, and so on.

It is reported that Hefei Central European Banlie has opened lines from Hefei to Hamburg, Germany, Dorsk, Kazakhstan, Almaty, Helsinki, Finland, Vorotensk, Russia and Roz, Poland. Apart from Hefei to Hamburg, Germany, there are two shifts from Hamburg to Hefei every week and one to Central Asia.

"In 2019, while continuing to explore new routes, Hefei China-Europe Banquet will also consider gradually developing international trade, such as building overseas standard warehouses, transporting products from Russia, Europe and other places to China through the Banquet, in order to reduce transportation costs and further enrich the consumer market." Chen Feng said.