The New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor has this year seen more than 300,000 twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) containers transported aboard the railway"s intermodal freight trains, up 14 percent year on year, according to the China Railway Nanning Group Co., Ltd.

Statistics from Nanning Customs show that in the first quarter of this year, the materials and new energy industries promoted foreign trade along the new western land-sea corridor.

A total of 40,000 tonnes of new energy raw materials such as nickel-sulfur, ferronickel and spodumene have this year been imported along the new western land-sea corridor via Qinzhou Port, increasing 37 times year on year.

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Launched in 2017, the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor is a trade and logistics passage jointly built by western Chinese provinces and ASEAN member states.

The corridor covers 17 provinces and 61 cities in China, and it has expanded its reach to 393 ports in 119 countries and regions.

△A train, loaded with goods from ASEAN countries, departs from a railway container distribution center in Qinzhou City, south China"s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, May 11, 2023. (Xinhua/Zhang Ailin)

△A crane unloads containers at a railway container distribution center in Qinzhou City, south China"s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, May 11, 2023. (Xinhua/Zhang Ailin)

△This aerial photo taken on May 11, 2023 shows a railway container distribution center in Qinzhou City, south China"s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Zhang Ailin)

△This aerial photo taken on May 11, 2023 shows an automatic container terminal of Qinzhou Port and a railway container distribution center in Qinzhou City, south China"s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. (Xinhua/Zhang Ailin)

△A crane uploads containers at a railway container distribution center in Qinzhou City, south China"s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, May 11, 2023. (Xinhua/Zhang Ailin)

Source: Xinhua

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