The Yueyang Chenglingji Port is a comprehensive hub port connecting to the mainstream and tributaries of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, providing multimodal transportation service. As the only national first-class port in Hunan Province, Yueyang Chenglingji gives access to the four main streams in Hunan through Dongting Lake, linking a number of counties and cities of the province. Moreover, it has access to southwestern China and the coastal regions through the Yangtze River. This port is a crucial nexus for Hunan in dovetailing with the Yangtze River Economic Belt and several urban economic circles. The Hunan government has given long-term priority to the construction of the Yueyang Chenglingji Port, developing it into a river-sea intermodal transport assembly center and a comprehensive shipping logistics center on the middle reaches of the Yangtze River.

Chenglingji Port has been operating ship routes to Japan, South Korea, and Australia, and opened a route to Russia in July 2023. The volume of freight processed through its international container terminal has reached new levels every year—600,000 TEUs in 2021, one million in 2022, and 1.2 million in 2023. The 2024 goal is to reach 1.5 million.

The Hunan-Guangdong-Africa rail-sea intermodal train service began operation in September 2021. The service offers China's first international logistics passage based on Africa-bound rail-sea intermodal train service. Departing from the CRRC Zhuzhou Logistics Park, the trains reach Nansha, Yantian, and Shekou ports in Guangzhou along the Beijing-Guangzhou Railway. Then, the goods are transferred to the Asia-Pacific region, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America by ocean-going cargo ships.

Over the past three years, the Hunan-Guangdong-Africa rail-sea intermodal trains have maintained efficient operation with rapidly increasing trips. Only 10 trips were made from September to December of 2021. In 2022, the number of trips reached 242. This figure nearly doubled to 460 in 2023, and has surged to 288 in the first half of this year. It is anticipated that 500 train trips will be made in total during the whole year of 2024.

Huaihua is the only important node city in Hunan included in the national development strategy of the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor, and functions as an international freight assembly center connecting to ASEAN countries.

Launched on January 6, 2022, the Huaihua-Vientiane international freight train on the China-Laos Railway was launched. It was the first international freight train to ASEAN starting from central China.

The Huaihua International Land Port has actively expanded freight sources, collecting cargoes from within and around Hunan and enhancing cooperation with neighboring provinces such as Hubei, Jiangxi, and Yunnan. The Port has broadened the channels to "go global", with its freight service reaching 97 ports and stations in 40 countries and regions around the world. It has handled 221 kinds of goods in 16 categories, with the export of the "new three"—new energy vehicles (NEVs), lithium-ion batteries, and photovoltaic products—steadily growing. The Port has boosted collaboration with coastal ports. Beibu Gulf Port, Guangzhou Port, Yantian Port, and Yangpu Port have set up inland ports in Huaihua successively. Some international shipping companies, such as the China COSCO Shipping Corporation Limited, have set up container returning spots in Huaihua, allowing foreign trade enterprises to take delivery or return the containers nearby.

Since the opening of the first all-cargo route in 2017, Changsha has launched a cumulative total of 24 routes linking with five continents and dovetailing with the EU, U.S.A, and ASEAN.

The Addis Ababa-Liège-Changsha-Addis Ababa route, Hunan's first fifth-freedom freight air route, was launched in Changsha on April 3.

Changsha airport currently operates 17 international air freight routes on a regular basis, bound for such destinations as Budapest, London, New York, Inchon, Addis Ababa, and Bangkok. These routes link Changsha with five major economies of the world—the EU, ASEAN, North America, Africa, and the Middle East. The airport will continue to enhance its international air freight route network, focusing on Central and Eastern Europe and launching all-cargo flights to Kuwait and Frankfurt, building the airport into a world-class aviation hub.