A NEW China-Europe freight train route linking the city of Jinhua in eastern China’s Zhejiang Province with Budapest in Hungary was launched Monday. The freight train service was launched ahead of the second China-CEEC Expo & International Consumer Goods Fair, which is being held in the city of Ningbo, Zhejiang, from yesterday to Friday. The train carries about 21 million yuan (US$3.3 million) worth of goods, including auto parts, electronic instruments and household items. It is expected to arrive in the Hungarian capital in 18 days. The bilateral trade between China and Hungary grew 14.4 percent year on year in 2020, with China being Hungary’s third-largest trading partner, according to China’s Ministry of Commerce. The new China-Europe freight train service offers a new efficient and convenient route for the Yangtze River Delta and even eastern Chinese coastal cities to export goods to Europe, according to officials at Hangzhou Customs. In the January-May period, a total of 286 China-Europe freight trains departed or arrived in Jinhua, carrying 23,700 twenty-foot equivalent units of goods, with the two figures up 565 percent and 566 percent year on year, respectively. (Xinhua) |