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Having offered various rail freight services between China and Europe since 2014, The U-Freight Group notes a report in Beijing's Global Times that a train, which departed from Xi'an recently, bound for Malaszewicze, Poland, marked a significant milestone as the total number of China-Europe freight train trips surpassed 90,000.

The report states that to date, China-Europe freight trains have transported more than 8.7 million teu of goods, valued at USD380 billion, according to China State Railway Group Co, Ltd, reports Xinhua.

From 2016 to 2023, the annual number of China-Europe freight train trips surged from 1,702 to over 17,000. The value of goods transported by this service skyrocketed from USD8 billion in 2016 to USD56.7 billion in 2023.

The types of goods transported on the China-Europe freight trains have expanded from IT products such as laptops and printers at the beginning to over 50,000 different types, including clothing and footwear, automobiles and parts, daily necessities, food, timber, furniture, chemicals and machinery.

Since 2023, an increasing number of Chinese-made "tech-intensive green trio" products - lithium-ion batteries, photovoltaic products, and NEVs - have been transported through the China-Europe freight trains, reflecting strong market demand, said China State Railway Group Co, Ltd.

So far, the China-Europe freight trains have reached 223 cities in 25 European countries and over 100 cities in eleven Asian countries, with the service network covering almost the entire Eurasian continent, it added.

U-Freight started our regular service in 2014, consolidating cargo in Xi’an and Wuhan and using the regular services that operate from those railheads to and from railheads in Poland, Germany, and Belgium. We now handle significant consol shipments from China to Germany, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland and The Netherlands in particular, as well as smaller volumes to other European countries, handled by our network of long standing agents once the shipments arrive at the three rail freight hubs in Europe.

For FCL shipments our large Chinese presence enables us to arrange container pickup from across the country and select a service from the rail freight gateway that is nearest to our customers.

Our overland rail freight service is clearly demonstrating that it offers a competitive alternative to air freight in regards to price, and considerably faster transit times compared to the ocean freight alternative.

For more information about our overland container rail service between China and Europe, please visit the relevant pages of this website or contact your local office, details of which can be seen here: https://www.ufreight.com/en/location