China port handles over 200,000 TEUs via China-Europe freight trains since 2014
A crane loads containers at Erenhot Port in North China’s Inner Mongolia autonomous region on April 11, 2020.

The border port of Erenhot in North China’s Inner Mongolia autonomous region has handled over 200,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) via China-Europe freight trains since 2014, the local railway operator said Wednesday.

Since initiating the China-Europe freight train service in May 2014, Erenhot Port has been handling rising numbers of cargo trains.

So far in 2020, a total of 1,970 China-Europe freight trains have passed through the port, an increase of 52.2 percent compared with the same period last year. The number of TEUs handled has reached 200,063, a rise of 64.2 percent year-on-year.

Erenhot Port, the largest land port on the China-Mongolia border, has 42 China-Europe freight train routes passing through it.

 

Source: chinadaily