China's new rail network reduces transit time for exports

The Beibu-Gulf-PSA International Container Terminal, which Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean visited yesterday as part of her knot tour along the southern transportation corridor. STRAITS TIMES PHOTO

QINZHOU, China – Industrial cargoes such as auto parts, machinery and petrochemicals from Chinese cities of Chengdu and Chongqing now have an alternative route to export to Singapore and beyond.

The rail network known as the Southern Transport Corridor (STC) at Qinzhou Port in southern Guangxi and more than a dozen shipping routes to overseas destinations.

Compared to the traditional road via the Yangtze China has gone from more than two weeks to just two days

Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean, who is on a nine-day trip to China, yesterday visited the container port of the Gulf of Beibu (Gulf of Tonkin). visit of the main nodes along the STC

STC, which counts the participation of 10 provinces of the West and South, extends the Chongqing Connectivity Initiative, the third joint project between China and Si. ngapore

M. Teo, who was accompanied by State Minister Koh Poh Koon and senior parliamentary secretaries Baey Yam Keng, Sun Xueling and Tan Wu Meng, was briefed on developments at the port and toured the railway

A joint venture company created in 2015 by the Beibu Gulf Port Group, Singapore Port Operator PSA International and Singapore's Pacific International Lines (PIL) shipping company operates four of six port moorings.

During the year, he handled 430,000 equivalent units of 20 feet (TEU) of freight, and he aims to reach one million TEUs this year. The annual capacity of the port is three million EVP

"The port is growing rapidly, we see a 30% increase in our shipment volume every year since 2015," said Mr. Teo Siong Seng, president of PIL, which has the bulk of the flow of goods is oriented south, with agricultural raw materials from Guangxi and the neighboring Guizhou province, as well as industrial goods from Chengdu and Chongqing to Qinzhou to be exported abroad.

Since the beginning of this rail freight service last September, there have been three weekly train trips to and from Chengdu to Qinzhou, and four southbound and two northbound trains connecting Chongqing and the port. capital of western Gansu Province, and Kunming, capital of southwestern Yunnan province, began. And it is planned to encourage local players from neighboring towns to use the STC rail network

M. Teo met yesterday with Guangxi Autonomous Region chairman Chen Wu in the provincial capital of Nanning

. a large-scale visit that brought him to Beijing and Tianjin before traveling to southern Guangxi. He will visit southwestern Chongqing today and finish his trip tomorrow in Lanzhou City, western Gansu Province.

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