国内英语资讯:China-Singapore rail-sea transit route expands B&R cooperation_时事

国内英语资讯:China-Singapore rail-sea transit route expands B&R cooperation

CHONGQING, Sept. 21 -- Zuncheng (Chongqing) Logistics Chain Management Co., which provides international logistics solutions for clients in West China, now offers more price competitive transport.

"Earlier, it took over 30 days for cargo to be shipped downstream on the Yangtze River to Shanghai and then to Southeast Asia," said Yang Ming, president of Zuncheng. "Now it saves about 20 days as goods are first transported to a port in southern Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region by train and then shipped to Singapore by sea."

The faster Southern Transport Corridor is an important part of the China-Singapore (Chongqing) Demonstration Initiative on Strategic Connectivity, the third intergovernmental cooperation project between the two countries.

Han Baochang, director of the demonstration initiative's administration bureau, said the regular rail-sea transit route was an international trade logistics passage built by western Chinese inland regions and Southeast Asian countries, including Singapore.

Sept. 25 marks the first anniversary of the route launch. Freight trains had made 268 trips by July and further connected 107 ports in 55 countries and regions.

"The Southern Transport Corridor has become the most convenient way to connect the western Chinese regions by sea and is reshaping the logistics industry," said Li Muyuan from the China Communications and Transportation Association.

Li said earlier that longer and more costly logistics through the eastern route to the sea was one of the bottlenecks that hindered the development of China's western regions.