A special freight train carrying fruit from Thailand and Laos The total weight of more than 1.3 thousand tons headed to Chengdu and Chongqing, China. The first flight was successful.
December 9, 2022 Xinhua News Agency Case report of a special freight train carrying fresh fruit arriving in Chengdu Capital of Sichuan (Sichuan) Province in southwest China. A train crossed the China-Laos railway on Wednesday and another arrived in the southwestern municipality of Chongqing on Thursday, marking the first batch of fruit imported through the route. The train reaches both cities.
Two trains carrying 25 reefer containers each transported more than 1,300 tons of fruit, including longans, bananas and other fruits from Thailand and Laos. It takes six days to arrive in Chongqing, which significantly shortens the time for Chinese distributors of fruit.
Ai Zhonghua, executive director of Chongqing Jinguoyuan Industrial Co., Ltd., which imported more than 70,000 tons of Thai longan last year. He indicated that this time Chongqing Jin Guo Yuan imported 25 containers of longan to Chengdu. Sea transportation took more than 10 days, but China-Laos railway can save logistics time and reduce cost by 30%.
Chongqing Hongjiu Fruit Co., Ltd. imports 20 containers of longan. and five containers of bananas in Chongqing on Thursday (December 8).
Penghe, deputy general manager of Chongqing Hongjiu, the first registered fruit distributor in China. The China-Laos Railway is a new logistics alternative for foreign trade in the fruit industry. This improves the efficiency and effectiveness of international supply chains, with Chongqing Hongjiu importing more than 90,000 tons of durian in 2021.
The China-Laos Railway which went into operation in December 2021 and stretches over 1,000 kilometers, connecting Kunming Capital of Yunnan Province (Yunnan) and Vientiane capital of Laos.
