East China’s Jiangsu province steadily increased the volume of railway and waterway freight, promoted the development of multimodal transport, and constantly optimized the transport structure in the first three quarters so as to have provided a strong momentum for the stability and smoothness of the supply chain and industrial chain.
In the first three quarters, Jiangsu reported 64.637 million tons of railway freight, up 7.3% year on year, and 800 million tons of waterway freight, up 14.5% year on year.
Jiangsu reported 24.4% year-on-year growth in container road rail intermodal transport volume, 33% year-on-year growth in rail water intermodal transport volume, 38.2% year-on-year growth in inland river container transport volume and 17% year-on-year growth in China-Europe-Asia freight train operation volume.
Jiangsu has opened many international routes, such as the sea routes linking Nanjing with Ho Chi Minh city and Taicang with Europe, adding to a total of 89. Jiangsu has opened 8 inland container routes, with first ever connectivity with Xinyang Port on the upper reaches of the Huaihe River, adding the number of inland container routes to 92.
Since this year, Jiangsu has launched a new route from Suzhou to Milan, Italy, and added new return freight trains from Tilburg of Netherlands to Nanjing, and Minsk of Belarus to Xuzhou.
Five prefecture level cities in Jiangsu Province now operate 23 freight train routes to Europe, Central Asia and Southeast Asia.
Jiangsu also added 7 ocean railway demonstration freight lines including the Nanjing-Shanghai route, the Huai’an-Lianyungang route and the Lanzhou-Lianyungang route.
Jiangsu installed 3 new highway and rail freight demonstration lines, including the Xuzhou-Wuxi line and the Wuxi-Lianyungang-Russia line. At present, Jiangsu has opened more than 100 multimodal transport lines that are in stable operation.
