Land-sea freight transport from SW China's Chongqing surges in Q1
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CHONGQING, April 23 (Xinhua) -- Southwest China's Chongqing Municipality saw robust land-sea freight transport in the first quarter amid rapid network expansion, according to local authorities.
A total of 19,588 twenty-foot equivalent units of cargo were transported via the domestic section of a land-sea freight route from Chongqing to overseas destinations in the first quarter, a notable year-on-year increase of 130 percent, according to the route's logistics and operating center.
The cargo was worth a total of 2.43 billion yuan (about 374.23 million U.S. dollars), a surge of 117 percent compared to the same period last year.
By the end of March, land-sea freight trains from Chongqing had made a total of 3,270 trips since the route opened in 2017.
The route is part of the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor, a trade and logistics passage jointly built by Singapore and provincial-level regions of western China. Chongqing is one of the corridor's centers of operation. All trains via the route pass through port transits in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Enditem
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