46 TEUs of chemical products, valued at around 16 million RMB, were shipped from Yichangdong Railway Station on April 12. The cargo is expected to reach Qinzhou Port in Guangxi via the Jiaozuo-Liuzhou Railway, passing through Huaihua in Hunan, and then will be transported by sea to Brazil in South America after six days.

　　It is the first foreign trade business of the Land-Sea Trade Corridor Operations (Hubei) Co., Ltd. of Yichang Industrial Investment Group since its establishment. This shipment via routes included in the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor strategy can reduce the costs for each TEU by 2,000 RMB compared to traditional river-sea transport, with domestic transport time shortened by 6 days. The New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor strategy also allows products like fruits from Southeast Asia to bypass traditional maritime or river transport and directly reach Yichang via land routes, saving approximately one week.

　　The New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor is the shortest and fastest land-sea transport corridor between the western regions of China and even Central Asia and ASEAN countries. It can help reduce logistics costs significantly. Yichang, a crucial node city in the Yangtze River Economic Belt linking the Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Circle and the Wuhan Metropolitan Area, enjoys convenience and competitive advantages in integrating into the new corridor. The Land-Sea New Trade Corridor Operations (Hubei) Co., Ltd., as the major regional operating entity in Yichang’s integration into the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor, is striving to reduce logistics costs and provide market entities with more integrated solutions for industrial and supply chain integration.

　　The opening of the railway-railway-sea transport route of the “Yichang-Huaihua-Qinzhou Port” route represents a significant enhancement to the city’s international logistics network, reducing reliance on river-sea transport for products in the Yichang-Jingzhou-Jingmen Metropolitan Coordinating Region and ensuring supply chain security.

　　In recent years, the Yichang Municipal Bureau of Commerce and the Yichang Municipal Center for Logistics Development have collaborated to develop international logistics routes, opening 12 routes in 7 directions to destinations like the Laos and leading to continuous growth in foreign trade. (Reporters/Gao Wei & Deng Yuqin; Correspondent/Wang Xiaofeng)