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Source: People’s Republic of China – State Council News
URUMQI, May 30 (Xinhua) — Horgos Port, a major railway hub in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, has handled more than 4,000 China-Europe (Central Asia) freight trains since the beginning of the year, after a train loaded with electronics and mechanical equipment departed for Duisburg, Germany, on Thursday.
According to the Urumqi Office of China Railway Urumqi Group Co., Ltd., the Horgos railway checkpoint has so far handled a total of more than 46,000 China-Europe/Central Asia freight train trips, bringing the total number of these trains to 87, covering 46 cities and regions in 18 countries.
Situated on the border between China and Kazakhstan, Khorgos and Alashankou, also known as the Alatau Pass, are the two main railway border crossings in Xinjiang.
According to previously published data, as of May 26, the Alashankou checkpoint had handled more than 3,000 China-Europe/Central Asia/ freight train trips since the beginning of the year. These trains traveled along 123 routes connecting 21 countries, including Germany and Poland.
Over the past three years, the capacity of these two railway checkpoints has grown at double-digit rates.
In 2024, these checkpoints handled 27.5 million tons of cargo, accounting for nearly 70 percent of XUAR’s total land import and export volume. In addition, the number of China-Europe freight trains passing through these two border crossings exceeded 50 percent of the national total.
In 2024 alone, the two checkpoints handled 16.4 thousand China-Europe freight train trips, up 14 percent from the previous year. –0–