A direct shipping route connecting Yueyang with Vladivostok has opened recently, providing a new channel for the import and export of goods for Hunan and central China. In the first half of this year, 652 voyages departed from Yueyang Chenglingji Port, bound for destinations such as the Shanghai ports of Waigaoqiao and Yangshan, as well as ASEAN countries, Australia, Japan, and South Korea, with the container throughput increasing by 54.74% to 572,500 TEUs year on year.

This year, the demand for water-rail transportation of bulk commodities such as iron ore and coal at the Chenglingji Port has achieved steady growth.  Logistics channels have opened between the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) and central China. New water-rail intermodal freight services have been established for rice from northeast China, mineral water from Guangxi, and feldspar powder from Jiangxi. And direct freight train service from Yueyang to the GBA has been launched.

With the initiation of Yueyang as a designated supervision site for imported logs, the first shipment of caesalpinioideae logs from Ghana in Africa has been imported through the port. Each month over 1,000 cubic meters of logs are imported from African countries such as Ghana and Nigeria.

This year, several China-Europe freight trains have brought grains to Chenglingji Port, effectively welcoming "return cargos” from other Belt and Road countries. The service covers a wide range of destinations, including 18 provinces in China and several Belt and Road partner countries such as Russia, Belarus, and five Central Asian countries.

A new mode of transferring supervision at Yueyang has been implemented for imported containers and goods from Shanghai to Chongqing. Imported cargo bound for the Guoyuan Port in Chongqing can now undergo customs clearance directly at Chenglingji Port. An agreement has been signed among ports in Hubei, Jiangxi, and Hunan provinces, aiming to create a "combined port" in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, providing support for the economic development in central China and the stability of the industrial and supply chains in the three provinces. The inaugural voyage of the direct shipping route from Zhoushan, Zhejiang, to Yueyang, Hunan, has been launched, providing a new passage for the economic hinterlands in the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River. The direct shipping route from Chenglingji to Hong Kong has been operating on a regular basis, becoming a new channel for the export of fireworks and firecrackers from other provinces.

This article is from the Hunan Provincial Government www.enghunan.gov.cn.  

Translator: Xiao Juan

Chinese source: Voice of Hunan