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Hupac train from China

News26 May 2017

An 800m long train loaded with 82 ISO tank left the Chinese railway station of Korla in North-West China heading to Europe (Germany and Fran...

Chongqing-Lanzhou rail link by 2014

News1 Oct 2011

The railway connecting China’s south west Chongqing City to the north western city of Lanzhou will be opened to traffic in 2014 and become...

Changsha rail freight station on stream

News1 Sep 2011

Changsha, the capital of China’s south-central Hunan province, has officially opened its new rail freight station in the Changsha Jinxia E...

China’s container rail network on fast track

News1 Jan 2010

China’s container rail network, which will have 18 terminals across the country and eventually link up with the European rail grid via Rus...

New China-Russia box train service

News21 Feb 2009

China’s northern Dalian port has started a container train service to Russia after the first two berths of the Dayao Bay phase-III termina...

China building Asia’s largest rail container terminal

News1 May 2008

Construction work on the Chengdu rail container terminal in China, which is billed as Asia’s largest, is expected to start soon....

CSCL launches new China-Russia intermodal service

News1 Nov 2007

China Shipping Container Lines (CSCL) and the Chinese Ministry of Railways have started a container rail service between China and Russia th...

Prague-Shanghai overland service

News1 Aug 2007

Maersk Line’s wholly-owned rail intermodal operator European Rail Shuttle (ERS) has started the operational phase of a transcontinental se...

WB in China rail loan…

News1 Feb 2007

The World Bank has approved a US$200M loan to help expand railway capacity between China’s Guizhou and Yunnan provinces to halve transit t...

…Shanghai block train

News1 Feb 2007

Shanghai’s port has taken its first step to penetrate deeper inland by starting a weekly container block train service from the city’s L...

KCRC eyes intermodal rail freight

News1 Jul 2006

Hong Kong’s Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation (KCRC) has sought China’s approval to operate freight services to and from Guangzhou, cap...

China to develop rail box terminals

News16 Dec 2005

NWS Holdings of Hong Kong has signed a letter of intent with state-owned China Railway Container Transport Corp (CRCT) to form a Yuan20 bill...

Coke on the blocks

News1 Apr 2005

The first ever container block train carrying more than 2000 tonnes of Chinese coke arrived in Duisburg last month, having completed the 981...

Private capital for China rail?

News1 Aug 2004

The Chinese government will allow private capital to be used to expand the country’s railway network to help alleviate its strained haulin...

China rail can’t cope

News1 Jun 2004

China has admitted that despite steady growth in carrying capacity, its rail freight system is struggling to cope with the growing demands o...

Stacktrains for China

News1 May 2004

China’s first first double-stack container train started trial operations on April 18 between Beijing and Shanghai....