An aerial drone photograph taken on Sept. 21, 2025 reveals freight trains working previous the Mohan Railway Station of the China-Laos Railway in southwest China’s Yunnan Province. (Xinhua/Xing Guangli)
KUNMING, March 25 (Xinhua) — A China-Laos Railway worldwide freight practice loaded with items departed from Kunming in southwest China’s Yunnan Province on Wednesday, sure for Vientiane in Laos, marking this railway’s cumulative cargo transport quantity exceeding 80 million tonnes since its launch on Dec. 3, 2021, together with greater than 18 million tonnes of cross-border shipments.
China Railway Kunming Group Co., Ltd. stated such cross-border freight practice operations have expanded considerably, with each day providers rising from two at launch to a peak of 23.
As of Wednesday, a complete of 71,000 freight trains had operated on this route. The selection of cross-border items has surged from simply over 10 objects, corresponding to fertilizers and rubber, to greater than 3,800 spanning chemical substances, textiles, electrical merchandise and minerals, fueling regional financial vitality.
Annual cargo volumes have risen steadily. A complete of 5.64 million tonnes have been transported thus far this 12 months. The railway’s freight service now serves 19 nations and areas, together with Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore and Bangladesh, with over 20,000 worldwide freight trains dispatched.
(Web editor: Zhang Kaiwei, Liang Jun)
