"Two Bases and One Train Service" Achieves Steady Growth in Operational Efficiency

From: Lianyungang Updated: 2025-07-19 05:43

Putian Station arrived at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (Lianyungang) International Logistics Park's rail terminal, marking the park's first successful handling of rail-based commercial vehicles and opening new pathways for expanding export vehicle capacity at Lianyungang's main port area. In the first half of 2025, the "Two Bases and One Train Service" framework, comprising the China-Kazakhstan (Lianyungang) Logistics Cooperation Base, the SCO (Lianyungang) International Logistics Park, and the China-Europe Railway Express, achieved steady growth in operational efficiency, playing a pivotal role in building a "Belt and Road" bidirectional opening hub and enhancing the capacity of land-sea intermodal transportation.

This year, Lianyungang has advanced the central government's mandate to "comprehensively upgrade the New Eurasian Land-Sea Corridor capacity and promote coordinated development along the route" by strengthening cooperation foundations, expanding collaboration fields, and creating cooperation highlights. Leveraging the "Two Bases and One Train Service" as key platforms, the city has deepened high-quality "Belt and Road" cooperation, unswervingly serving the city's opening-up development strategy.

Two bases achieve leapfrog development. As the first physical project under the "Belt and Road" Initiative, the China-Kazakhstan (Lianyungang) Logistics Cooperation Base has evolved over 11 years into a crucial logistics hub connecting Central Asia with the Pacific. From January to June 2025, the base and its East Gate Dry Port handled 311,400 TEUs of container throughput, a 3.1% year-on-year increase. The base has stabilized a transshipment network connecting Central Asia-Lianyungang with Japan, Southeast Asia, South Korea, Europe, and the Americas, featuring 14 core transshipment commodities. Its ferroalloy, potash fertilizer, lead-zinc ingot, and chrysotile asbestos transshipment volumes rank among China's top.

The SCO (Lianyungang) International Logistics Park has developed in tandem. In the first half of 2025, its logistics volume reached 39.41 million tons, a 15.4% increase, with six overseas warehouses established and a joint auto parts distribution base with Uzbekistan. "We will expand the implementation of rail express customs clearance models, optimize transportation processes and route designs, and inject stronger momentum into regional high-standard opening-up and high-quality development," said Qian, Deputy General Manager of New Silk Road International Container Development Co., Ltd. The park now integrates a "highway-rail-river-sea" multimodal transport network, with plans to strengthen cost-efficient multimodal transport, promote integrated operation of overseas and high-standard warehouses, and innovate trade-logistics synergy models.

China-Europe Railway Express maintains leadership. In the first half of 2025, Lianyungang operated 467 international railway express trains, accounting for 40% of China's transshipment volume. Its network optimization has created an international transport system covering 5 border ports and 6 premium routes, reaching over 100 nodes across Asia and Europe. The Lianyungang-Xuzhou China-Europe Railway Express Hub was approved as one of China's 14 national-level hubs, significantly elevating its strategic position. Port authorities have actively promoted "rail express customs clearance" models and paperless transshipment operations to maximize rail capacity. Around-the-clock "appointment-based inspection" services ensure immediate cargo clearance upon arrival, further enhancing customs efficiency.